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Russia say tens of thousands of people have been displaced from South Ossetia, where the conflict erupted a week ago. Fighting has largely stopped in the area, but reports of looting and banditry continue.

The first Guantanamo war crimes trial has begun. Salim Hamdan — Osama bin Laden's former driver — is accused of helping al-Qaida. Hamdan has denied the charge. Carol Rosenberg, the Miami Herald's reporter in Guantanamo Bay, talks about the trial.

Amid soaring gas prices, the most depressed real estate market in decades, falling home prices and tight credit, President Bush defended his administration's efforts to stabilize the economy in a news conference Tuesday.

Scientist Bruce E. Ivins was respected by his colleagues at the Army biodefense research center at Fort Detrick in Maryland. His death, and his possible connection to an FBI investigation in the 2001 anthrax killings, hits a tight-knit community.

When Dr. Bruce Ivins was hired 30 years ago to study anthrax vaccines at the Army's Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, he didn't need security clearance.

Many friends and colleagues of Bruce Ivins, a government researcher who was under investigation for the anthrax attacks of 2001, have said they are certain that investigators are pointing to the wrong man. But his estranged brother says he believes the allegations.

The FBI this week may release some of the evidence against Bruce Ivins, a U.S. government researcher who was under investigation for the anthrax attacks of 2001. He killed himself last week. Investigators have told NPR they were still several major legal steps away from an indictment.

The U.S. government released evidence this week in its case against Bruce Ivins, who killed himself last month after he learned he would be charged in the 2001 anthrax mailing attacks. The prosecution presented its arguments in a news conference instead of a courtroom, which left Ivins' attorney, Paul Kemp, unsatisfied.

The DOJ says it's confident Army scientist Bruce Ivins sent the deadly anthrax letters in 2001. But Ivins' lawyer says dozens, if not hundreds, of scientists and contractors had access to those same anthrax spores. A detailed look at the government's allegations and Ivins' defense.

New companies are working to commercialize in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, a technology that could make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body.