After 13 years on the run from the law, one of the world’s most wanted men, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, is behind bars. Karadzic had twice been indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal and accused of 16 counts of genocide.

With Barack Obama on a mid-campaign Middle East tour, John McCain is in the United States on the offense, pitching Obama's lack of foreign policy and national security experience as weaknesses. Can Obama put those concerns to rest and force McCain to defend the GOP record on the economy?

A London-based advertising campaign, aimed at generating gay travel to the United States is selling South Carolina as “so gay.” South Carolina officials are saying “no way.” The Takeaway talks to the ad man behind this controversial campaign.

Today, Christie's auctions a memento from John Lennon: his scrawled lyrics for “Give Peace a Chance.” Lennon gave the page to then-16-year-old Gail Renard in 1969 after she and a friend climbed up a fire escape to see him and Yoko Ono during their Montreal “bed-in.”

Guest: Judy Dalton, BBC commentator and former Wimbledon doubles champion

While today’s Fourth of July will remind many of us of what it means to be an American, for a handful, the national holiday will pay tribute to only one of several citizenships. More and more Americans are electing to obtain dual citizenship derived from their European ancestry.

Guest: Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times

Today marks the 60-year anniversary of the Cold War’s first major crisis: The Blockade of Berlin. Angered by an allied plan to reform Germany’s worthless Reichsmark into the Deutschemark, Soviet leader Josef Stalin cut off all roads and railways into West Berlin.

Guest: Robert Pigott, BBC News religious affairs correspondent

What does democracy sound like? That depends on where you are. The Takeaway compares U.K. Question Time and the U.S. House of Representatives to hear the difference in the way lawmakers serve you.

When the French and Dutch rejected the European Union's constitution in 2005, member nations drafted a new treaty that has slowly won adoption from national governments. But Ireland is unique. It's the only country holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and it's people may reject the plan on Thursday, creating a new EU crisis. Fintan O'Toole from the Irish Times tells The Takeaway what's at stake.

The United Nations has convened a high-level conference of the World Food Program in Rome to discuss the challenges of climate change, bioenergy and food security amid rises prices. Making an appearance is Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, whose own country faces an inflation rate of 165,000 percent.

Q&A: Send director Parvez Sharma your questions. Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Parvez Sharma began paying close attention to the national discussion around religion. And the gay Muslim filmmaker said he felt the need to come out of the closet — as a practicing Muslim. Sharma has made a new documentary about the lives of other gay and lesbian Muslims.

Sue Tilley met British painter Lucian Freud at a London nightclub. Now his painting of her is expected to fetch up to 35 million dollars — making it the most expensive work ever by a living artist.