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Two weeks after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, there remain many competing accounts of how it began. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. Should security should have been better, and what role did al-Qaida play, if any?

Four other people were wounded. Early reports indicate the gunman was a former employee. People who live near the business are in shock.

Top stories include: a man let go from his job at a small Minnesota firm returns with a gun and kills three people and himself; disgraced Chinese official Bo Xilai is thrown out of the Communist Party and accused of corruption in a case linked to his wife's killing of a British businessman.

In 1962, chaos broke out at the University of Mississippi after an African-American student named James Meredith tried to enroll. Tell Me More guest host Celeste Headlee looks back with Meredith's niece, Meredith McGee, and history professor Frank Lambert, who was also a student at Ole Miss.

Less than six weeks to go and President Obama seems to have opened up a lead in key battleground states. Mitt Romney's best hope could be in the debates, which begin next week. Also to no one's surprise — and Sen. Claire McCaskill's delight — Todd Akin stays in the Missouri Senate race.

Passionate advocates believe that squatting over the toilet is a more healthful position than sitting down on one. They say the posture can alleviate problems like hemorrhoids. One company is making stools to help people get closer to the squat.

Monk Competition madness, Don Byron interviewed, professor Sam and hints of a Clark Terry film.

The railways minister is offering $100,000 to anyone who kills the maker of the anti-Islam video Innocence Of Muslims. The offer has brought international condemnation, but Islamic militants have praised the minister and he says he's not backing down.

Disgraced senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Communist party, and will now face criminal charges. The Xinhua news agency says he's accused of abusing power, taking bribes and having improper sexual relations with women. It also implicates him in the murder case involving his wife, saying he made serious mistakes for which he will have to take responsibility.

This week, speeches at the United Nations General Assembly addressed the crisis over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Robert Siegel explores the likelihood of war with Iran, through conversations with Dennis Ross, counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, New York Times Tehran correspondent Thomas Erdbrink, Titra Parsi, founder and president of the National Iranian American Council, and Mike Shuster, who covers Iran's nuclear program.