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Michele Norris talks with John Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and author of The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected, and Where He will Take the Catholic Church.

New York is celebrating 50 years of the Public Theater. What Joe Papp started in a church basement on the Lower East Side became one of the most important theater companies in the world.

The cost of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the hurricane could top $200 billion -- roughly the same cost of the Iraq war. But President Bush says the money to pay for it should come from spending cuts, not new taxes.

Germany faces weeks of political uncertainty following the inconclusive results of Sunday's elections. The opposition Christian Democrats, led by Angela Merkel, failed to win a clear majority. The current chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, says he can form a government, and has refused to step down.

Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took quite a pounding from Hurricane Katrina. But the society that runs the estate is vowing to rebuild.

The mayor of New Orleans is suspending his plan to bring Hurricane Katrina evacuees back home. Instead, Mayor Ray Nagin is ordering a new evacuation because tropical storm Rita may pose a new risk for the embattled city.

The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants on charges of crimes against humanity resumed briefly in Baghdad Monday. The judge then adjourned the trial until Dec. 5 so the defense team can replace lawyers who have been murdered.

South Korean scientists who authored a landmark paper on how to derive stem cell lines from individuals have been embroiled in an ethics scandal over how some of the work was conducted. Tuesday, a U.S. co-author of the paper has called into question the paper's scientific accuracy.

In the first part of our week-long series Beyond Prison, New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein introduces the story of former inmate James Gilbert, his incarceration and return to society.

President Bush says he will consider a number of military options for the Iraq war, including increasing the number of troops. Slate military affairs columnist Fred Kaplan and Alex Chadwick discuss what's militarily and politically feasible.