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A new exhibition in London features T.E. Lawrence's long-lost map of the Middle East. Lawrence of Arabia's map, presented to the British cabinet in 1918, provides an alternative to present-day borders in the region.

The alleged shooter, an 18-year-old white male, has been arraigned on a first-degree murder charge. Authorities say most of the victims killed at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket were Black.

A visit to Capitol Hill Tuesday by Iraq's provisional president, Jalal Talabani, forced lawmakers to turn their attention to a war that's been overshadowed by Hurricane Katrina and Supreme Court vacancies. Some say the Iraq war is now competing with emergency spending at home.

Two suicide bomb attacks and a roadside bombing in Iraq kill at least 31 people, many of them members of the Iraqi police. These bombings come a day after attacks in Iraq killed more than 150 people, and Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi announced he's waging a war against Iraqi forces and the country's Shiite Muslims.

Eliza Gilkyson wrote "Requiem" as a song of grief following last year's Asian tsunami. Now, after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, listeners are again turning to the song of prayer and comfort.

A report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research says the U.S. government's method for counting employed Americans could be inflating the numbers, and the true jobless rate could be as high as 6.3 percent. Madeleine Brand talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the controversial findings.

A terrorist attack on the Indonesian island of Bali kills at least 25 people. The blasts hit almost three years to the day after bombs killed more than 200 people in Bali. Indonesia's president had recently warned of a looming threat.

Australians Robin Warren and Barry Marshall receive the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research bucked conventional wisdom, showing that a bacterium, not simply excess stomach acid, causes peptic ulcers. Also, it suggested that bacterium may be a major cause of stomach cancer.

Iraqi authorities are working on details of the country's constitution. Iraqis will head to the polls to vote on the proposed constitution this Saturday. Host Steve Inskeep talks to Anne Garrels in Baghdad.

Large regions of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan cite widespread destruction after a deadly earthquake Saturday. Deaths are estimated in the tens of thousands. Rescue and relief crews are rushing to devastated areas.