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  • An American patrol found 18 bodies -- all males -- in an abandoned minibus Tuesday night on a road between two notorious west Baghdad neighborhoods. The bodies of at least 23 people have been found dumped throughout Baghdad in the last day.
  • Rock guitar has been trending louder, faster and more flamboyant. An exception is guitarist and singer David Gilmour. He hasn't put out a studio recording in 12 years, since Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. The drought ends this week with Gilmour's solo album, On an Island.
  • Tens of thousands of cases of silicosis have been filed by a few doctors and lawyers across the nation. Defendants say these cases are being manufactured for money, that there is no medical basis for these lawsuits and that the entire process is a fraud. Recently, a federal judge agreed. Part two of Wade Goodwyn's report.
  • Blood tests and a letter have led to questions about the death of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who died in his jail cell on Saturday. Milosevic recently said in a letter that he believed he was being poisoned. He faced a possible life sentence over a war crimes trial at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague.
  • Israeli forces blast their way into a Palestinian prison in the West Bank town of Jericho. The action was taken in an attempt to capture Palestinian several militants, including a man convicted in Israeli courts of killing an Israeli Cabinet minister. The targets of the siege refused to come out despite Israel's threats to kill them.
  • Last week, in a case from Dover, Penn., a judge ruled that it is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design in public schools. Supporters of intelligent design say the ruling won't deter them from raising questions about the theory of evolution.
  • In Pakistan, authorities are looking for a missing reporter. Hayatullah Khan was kidnapped on Monday by militants after reporting the death of a top al Qaeda commander.
  • Day to Day profiles hip-hop artist Supernatural, who rose to prominence as an improvisational "freestyle" artist. The rapper is expanding into written music with his new album S.P.I.T.
  • In Africa, almost a half-million children died last year of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of others are in need of treatment. But very few get it because the barriers to treating children are even greater than those for adults.
  • Dr. William H. Seitz, an orthopedic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, is a specialist in a bone-lengthening technique that develops useful fingers, hands and even elbow joints in children born with malformed limbs. Recent advances have made the process far less painful than before.
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