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Writer and commentator Jimi Izrael offers his views on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's comments about welcoming black residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina back to their "chocolate city" -- a city Nagin said God himself wants to preserve as a majority-black area. Nagin has since distanced himself from those comments.

After weeks of controversy, the results of groundbreaking experiments that purported to show how to make stem-cell lines from individual patients using cloning techniques will be retracted. A senior author of the paper, a top South Korean researcher, admits that some of the results were faked.

Statistics compiled by the Iraqi government and the medical community say that 6,000 people were killed in May and June -- civilians who were victims of spiraling sectarian attacks. The statistics were released by the United Nations.

A new study finds that an HIV drug can reverse memory loss in aging mice. This type of memory helps humans do things like associate a name with a face. It typically starts to decline in middle age.

Under indictment on corruption charges, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he'll seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution.

Supplies now are pouring into Pakistan, days after the massive earthquake that killed at least 20,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Bad weather has lifted, allowing supplies to arrive from abroad and rescue missions to remote areas.

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.

Steve Inskeep talks to News Analyst Cokie Roberts about President Bush's response to the earthquake in Southeast Asia and the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

Pharmaceutical company Merck will appeal Friday's $253-million jury award in the death of a man who had taken the painkiller Vioxx. But thousands of cases await the company in state and federal court.

Sunni Arab demonstrators take to the streets of Baghdad and other cities Friday, protesting alleged fraud in last week's parliamentary elections. Sunni political groups have demanded new elections for Baghdad province and are threatening to boycott the new parliament.