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A new tally from regional officials in Pakistan puts the death toll from the Kashmir earthquake and its aftermath at 79,000. Dr. Richard Brennan, director of global health programs for the International Rescue Committee, provides an update on efforts to get aid to quake survivors.

World Leaders and health experts have their eye on a virus that has the potential to spark a global pandemic. Nearly 150 million birds in Asia have been killed so far through infection or culling, but only 60 people have died. What's the risk? Experts answer your questions.

More than 13 million families in 2004 were unable at times to buy the food they needed. Finances are so strained with 5 million families that one or more members goes hungry as a result. Economic geographer Amy Glasmeier talks about the phenomenon of hunger in America.

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.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! is but one of scores of bands making music without the help a record label, pressing CDs themselves and selling them at concerts and on the Internet.

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.

New Orleans's Louis Armstrong Airport reopens to commercial air traffic, after serving for two weeks as a makeshift hospital. Medical teams said there were many heroic efforts and few deaths. But they criticized FEMA and the American Red Cross for bureaucratic delays that affected their ability to care properly for patients.

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.

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.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller, jailed for refusing to reveal her sources, has been released. She has agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press.