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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two landmark cases filed by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. An affidavit filed by a military officer involved in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals might have influenced the decision.

London's closed-circuit television system was of significant benefit in tracking bombing suspects last week. Some U.S. police officials hope to adopt similar systems, but they must overcome concerns about privacy and other abuses.

Pope Benedict XVI issues his first major reform of the Catholic Church, relaxing restrictions on the use of the old Latin Mass that that was common before the Second Vatican Council 40 years ago.

Archaeologists using DNA testing say they have identified a mummy discovered more than a century ago as Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's most powerful female pharaoh.

James Nicholson, the top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says he will leave his post by Oct. 1. Under Nicholson, the agency was criticized for being unprepared to care for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Diplomats meet in Beijing to lay out the next steps toward the goal of North Korea's full nuclear disarmament. The meeting follows the shutdown over the weekend of North Korea's main nuclear facility.

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has instituted a statewide hiring freeze in an attempt to prepare for the economic crunch brought on by his state's crippled Prudhoe Bay oil pipelines.

The U.S. government issues its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States early Thursday after a terror plot was disrupted in London, with a specific concern for tourist-filled flights to major U.S. cities.

Floyd Landis faces the loss of his Tour de France title if doping suspicions prove to be accurate. But as Landis awaits the results of a second test, he is worried that his reputation will still suffer, even if the results exonerate him. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Landis, who is currently in Spain.

Doctors, philanthropists and community activists meet at the International AIDS conference in Toronto, Canada, to discuss ways to fight the spread of the disease. A central topic is Uganda, whose HIV-prevention work has been held up as a model for other countries. But health workers say the Bush administration's emphasis on abstinence over condoms has hurt Uganda.