Two suicide bombers targeted the Moscow subway station this morning. We hear from Clifford Levy, New York Times Moscow bureau chief for more, and bring you today's headlines.

Two female suicide bombers wearing belts packed with explosives blew themselves up on the Moscow subway just before eight o'clock this morning — a time when the city is busiest with commuters. Chechen rebels are believed to be responsible for the attack, which has left at least 37 people dead.

• CONGRESS: President Obama issued 15 recess appointments on Saturday. The procedure allows senior federal officials to be appointed without confirmation from the Senate. Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich explains the procedure, along with the Republican reaction.
• SPORTS: Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin recaps the weekend's action in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and looks at who's left in the Final Four.

It's Monday, which means it's time to take a look at what's ahead this week with Marcus Mabry of The New York Times and Jonathan Marcus of the BBC World Service. This week, what's in store for a post-election Iraq; the U.N.'s aid conference for Haiti; Russia and the U.S. discuss the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

Volvo is becoming a Chinese car company. Ford announced that it sold the Swedish car brand that it bought 11 years ago. Chinese conglomerate, Zhejiang Geely, is paying a third of what Ford originally paid for Volvo. Keith Bradsher, New York Times Hong Kong bureau chief, explains more about the buyer, the price and the future of Volvo.

UPDATE: On air (although not in the printed article), Bradsher said that Saab assets had been sold to Chinese car manufacturers and the rest of the company was being shut down. In fact, GM originally agreed to sell old Saab tooling to Beijing Automotive, but after starting to shut down Saab's ongoing operations, GM reversed itself and sold the company to Dutch car maker Spyker earlier this year.

From Jamie Oliver’s 'Food Revolution' to the first lady’s national crusade, it seems that the issue of child obesity is everywhere. Clearly a major health issue, it is also a major self-esteem issue for children, which leads us to wonder: Is it possible to help our kids take off the extra pounds without giving them a complex?

Christian Science Monitor contributor, Anand Gopal explains the president's visit to Afghanistan, and this morning's headlines.

President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, during which he spoke to American troops and had a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. To the troops, Obama said his "main job here today is to say thank you on behalf of the entire American people." The visit comes days after the president announced a nuclear deal with Russia and as Iraq forms a new government. How is the Obama administration's foreign policy evolving in its second year?

• FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: To paraphrase the Vice President's now immortal exaltation, President Obama's signing of an historic health care bill into law last week was "a big deal." But some of the nation's biggest lobbyists want to make sure that legislative lightening doesn't strike twice. Louise Story, New York Times Wall Street and finance reporter tells us how pro-business lobby groups are preparing to lock horns with the Obama Administration over national finance reform.
• LISTENER TAKEOUT: We hear your reactions on the sexual abuse cases rocking the Catholic Church, along with the prospect of living to see your 100th birthday.

Health care reform is now the law of the land, and after the months of protracted debate, you'd think there couldn't be any details left to tease out, but our Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, discovered that lawmakers never once mentioned a $25 billion detail in the bill, pertaining to a mysteriously named substance: black liquor. 

The participants in DOROT's annual Passover Seders ask the four questions, sing traditional songs, list off the ten plagues, and pray. They do everything that one would expect to do at a Seder, only they do it while each participant is still in his or her own home.

All week long we are 'Getting Schooled' on the Takeaway — talking about the big issues in our schools today and how things are changing, now that No Child Left Behind is being revamped and the Department of Education is disbursing $100 billion in stimulus money. We kick off the conversation by taking a look at why American schools do so poorly in comparison to other industrialized countries and what we can learn from them.

A new study shows that rats can get hooked on junk food the same way they can become addicted to cocaine, forcing the question of what this means for humans. Can we actually form addictions to junk food?