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I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the most powerful aide to the most powerful vice president in the nation's history, is indicted by a federal grand jury. The news further rocks a White House struggling with a variety of second-term problems.

The trial of Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad was delayed for several hours Wednesday when the ousted Iraqi dictator refused to attend. Later, the trial resumed without Saddam in the courtroom.

Palestinian computer entrepreneur Hadi Abushahla is determined to run his businesses and lead a normal life. But the realities of daily life in Gaza intrude on his optimistic outlook.

This weekend, Syria's president ordered his government to open an investigation into alleged Syrian involvement in the assassination of a Lebanese politician. Until now, Syria has vehemently denied any involvement in the crime and has denounced the United Nations' allegations that Syrian officials were complicit in the murder.

Politicians, celebrities and thousands of mourners honored civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks Monday at a memorial service in Washington, D.C. Her remains lay in honor in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol over the weekend, a first for a woman.

An Australian television network is making public a series of previously unpublished images from 2003 that show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Many of the images are similar to those that first appeared nearly two years ago. But others are even more graphic and brutal.

Reports that the U.S. ambassador to Germany personally asked a German minister to keep a botched CIA rendition secret have created a political furor in Germany. German citizen Khaled el-Masri says he was wrongfully taken to Afghanistan, tortured and held for five months.

Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli resigns after violent protests in Libya over a T-shirt Calderoli wore that displayed a caricature of the prophet Muhammad. Libyan police opened fire Friday night on a crowd of young Muslim men storming the Italian consulate in Benghazi.

The Vice President gets a standing ovation as he addresses the legislature in his home state of Wyoming. It is his first public appearance since the hunting accident that injured his hunting buddy, Harry Whittington.

For the latest NPR/National Geographic Radio Expedition report, Elizabeth Arnold begins a journey to China's eastern Himalayas, near the border with Tibet, to profile a team of scientists studying the link between global warming and disappearing plant life high in the mountains.