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Midland Independent School District is bringing forward a school bond worth over $1.4 billion.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she will end her self-imposed exile and return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 in a bid to regain power.

U.S. forces, supported by tanks and attack aircraft, roll into the Iraqi city of Ramadi from the east. The persistent, violent insurgency in Ramadi has taken a high toll on U.S. forces stationed there.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will soon unveil the next stage in his plan to avoid an all-out civil war. President Bush says al-Maliki has discussed granting amnesty to insurgents. How might the government engage insurgents in the political process?

Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue. The figure is high even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of corpses this year.

The Rapid Action Batallion fights crime and terrorism in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Human rights activists say 340 deaths attributed to the RAB are extra-judicial killings. But crime is down and ordinary citizens seem less concerned about a lack of due process.

U.S. and Iraqi government troops move deeper into the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, as an overnight operation thrusts into the eastern part of the city, an area previously under insurgent control. Since U.S. forces captured the nearby town of Fallujah in November of 2004, Ramadi has been a main base of the insurgency.

The U.S. military is making a fresh attempt to take control of Ramadi, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab city. Philip Reeves has been on patrol with U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, a stronghold of the Iraqi insurgency. The Marines now control the center of the town, but not much else.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that locals in an area about 35 miles north of Baghdad tipped off the government to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's location several weeks ago. That information was then passed along to U.S. officials, who used it to kill Zarqawi and seven associates with an airstrike Wednesday.

As dust settles from the death of al-Qaida figure Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the focus in Baghdad shifts to the Iraqi government and how the nation's leaders intend to fix overwhelming security problems.