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Upon arriving Germany Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Without being specific, Rice publicly defended the way the United States is conducting its war on terror. European countries have been investigating claims of secret CIA flights and prisons.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Congress gave President Bush broad powers to conduct war after the 2001 terror attacks. Gonzales tied that congressional resolution to the president's warrant-free authorization of wiretaps of U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency over the past three years.

British writer Vikram Seth's Two Lives tells the story of Seth's Indian-born uncle and German Jewish wife. Seth describes his aunt and uncle as "typically atypical people, ordinary extraordinary people."

Airline officials in Greece say they've recovered the flight data recorders from the Cypriot jetliner that crashed Sunday. Penny Gourntis of the Athens News Agency talks about the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

Israeli police and soldiers go house to house in Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, formally notifying residents they must leave the territory within the next 48 hours. But some settlers locked the gates of their communities, denying access.

In memory of a woodshop teacher and set designer for high school musical productions, a song about carrying on after loss.

Stephen Beard of Marketplace tells Alex Chadwick about a deal between the European Union and China to unblock about 75 million Chinese textile imports held up at European ports.

Allen Toussaint, evacuated from New Orleans after the floods hit, is a songwriter best known for the hit "Working in the Coal Mine." He wrote songs for The Meters, Dr. John, Patti LaBelle and many others, and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. (This interview was first broadcast on Jan. 6, 1988.)

Americans adopted more than 22,000 foreign-born children last year. But a number of African-American and mixed-raced babies born in the United States are being adopted by foreigners living abroad.

Commentator James Poniewozik is disappointed that ABC has cancelled plans for a new reality show, Welcome to the Neighborhood, after protests that the show is discriminatory. Poniewozik is a staff writer for Time magazine.