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Russia makes a face-saving deal to supply natural gas to Ukraine, but there are still concerns about the decision to close the pipeline in the first place.

Only hours after the governor said 12 miners survived an underground explosion, company officials say early Wednesday that only one miner survived. The mine's owner blames the error on a misunderstood conversation. Another body was found Tuesday evening.

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.

Both conservatives and liberals have expressed dismay over President Bush's choice of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. But commentator Jay Sekulow thinks Miers has much to offer the American people. He is chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative advocacy law firm.

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.

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.

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.

Even history's most famous composers raided their own works for themes and ditties to use in future works. They also borrowed from the works of their predecessors. Renee Montagne talks with music commentator Miles Hoffman about famous musical leftovers.

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.

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.