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The miners and townspeople recall a grim week in a West Virginia coal town: an explosion, prayers amid worst fears, false hopes, a cruel twist and then a final realization that 12 workers are dead.

The United States is backing production of an experimental human vaccine against bird flu for stockpiling in case the current virus mutates and starts a global pandemic. But it's not clear how useful the vaccine would be if a pandemic occurs.

Nanotechnology is finding a home in beauty products. Some skin-cream makers, for instance, say buckyballs can prevent premature aging of the skin by acting as an anti-oxidant. But some experts wonder about the safety of these highly engineered nanostructures.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serb leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell near The Hague. Milosevic, 64, apparently died of natural causes.

When troops stationed in Iraq and elsewhere overseas watch the Super Bowl on TV, they don't see the commercials that everyone else does. Instead, they see taped messages recorded by players during the mayhem of Super Bowl media day.

With their identities concealed, witnesses in the trial of Saddam Hussein give chilling testimony on torture and deprivation in Iraqi prisons. The former Iraqi leader, who faces crimes against humanity, vowed he would not return to the "unjust" court in Baghdad.

A Jewish man in California's San Quentin State Penitentiary fights to have his inmate status changed from "white" -- a designation that sometimes groups him with violently anti-Semitic prisoners.

Day to Day profiles hip-hop artist Supernatural, who rose to prominence as an improvisational "freestyle" artist. The rapper is expanding into written music with his new album S.P.I.T.

Of all the groups in the micro-melting pot of South Louisiana hit by Hurricane Katrina, it's hard to find a more close-knit community than the Islenos. The descendants of Spanish-speaking Canary Islanders who settled St. Bernard Parish more than 200 years ago are now struggling to restore a community that was dispersed by Katrina's winds and floods.

P.D. James is considered one of the greatest living writers of detective fiction. Steve Inskeep talks with the British mystery writer about her new book, and how the mystery novel has changed over the years.