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The bombing of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines sparks mass protests and violence in many parts of Iraq. The top Shiite cleric urges followers to refrain from violence. With sectarian tensions already running high, the bombing prompts attacks on Sunni mosques.

A U.S. civil liberties group files a lawsuit against the CIA in the case of a man who says he was kidnapped and sent to Afghanistan to be interrogated as a terrorism suspect. The ACLU suit is the first legal challenge of a practice known as "extraordinary rendition."

The man who leads Haiti's national police force, Mario Andresol, sees widespread corruption amid hopes for democracy as a new president takes power. Andresol argues that Haitians will enjoy greater freedom if his purge of corrupt police is successful.

New documents shed more light on Judge Samuel Alito's views on the landmark 1972 Supreme Court decision that established a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion.

In the months leading up to the war in Iraq, U.S officials set up two secret agencies to deal with intelligence on Iraq. The now-defunct agencies are suspected of "cherry-picking" data to help build the administration's pro-war case and are at the heart of the scandal surrounding pre-war intelligence.

French lawmakers are calling for legal action against several rap musicians for allegedly inciting violence and racism in last month's suburban riots. Rap artists say the music reflects economic and social reality, and shouldn't be blamed for the unrest.

A Mars factory in Pennsylvania turns out millions of pieces of Dove dark chocolate using a secret method that preserves a compound found in raw cocoa beans. If Mars can harness that compound, chocolate may turn from a comfort food to a health food.

Nearly four years after the No Child Left Behind Act took effect, the nation's urban school districts are making only slight progress in raising test scores, and no progress in reducing the achievement gap between white and minority students.

With the world's highest number of AIDS cases, South Africa is an example of the disease's devastating hold in some parts of the world. AIDS is not only the leading killer of adults in South Africa, but also of younger children.

Acclaimed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk is scheduled to go on trial in Istanbul on charges of insulting his country for his comments on the deaths of Armenians and Kurds in an interview with a Swiss newspaper.