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Citigroup agrees to pay $2.65 billion to settle a class-action suit brought by investors over its role in the WorldCom scandal. Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney issued optimistic research reports on WorldCom and helped it raise money by selling its securities. The money will be paid to those who held company shares between 1999 and 2002, when the telecom giant declared bankruptcy. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Research suggests less than 5 percent of students at America's top colleges and universities come from low-income families. Many of these elite institutions recognize the problem and are taking steps to boost economic diversity on campus -- such as offering full scholarships for underprivileged students. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who wrote the report on Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, appears Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In his report, Taguba chides military intelligence officials for putting under their command poorly trained military police at Abu Ghraib and for involving them in efforts to make detainees more cooperative in interrogation sessions. NPR's David Welna reports.

Confusion continues to surround a U.S. attack in western Iraq that killed more than 40 people. The U.S. military says the target of the air and ground assault early Wednesday was a suspected safe house for foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq from nearby Syria. But Iraqis in the area say the victims were participating in a wedding celebration. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

U.N. Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is considering the make-up of an interim Iraqi government set to take over June 30 from the U.S.-led occupation authority. Analysts and politicians say Brahimi may be forced to compromise to the point that the new government's authority will be restricted, resulting in a largely symbolic transfer of power. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

A powerful car bomb wounds a senior Iraqi official outside his Baghdad home, kills at least five people -- including the sucide bomber -- and injures others. The attack comes just a few days after the assassination of the head of Iraq's Governing Council. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

The Russian-backed president of Chechnya and at least five others were killed Sunday in an explosion in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Among the dozens of wounded was Russia's senior military commander in the region. The bomb went off in a stadium where President Ahmed Kadyrov was attending celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley and Kim Murphy of The Los Angeles Times.

President George Bush rules out tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ease rising gas prices. Bush voiced concern over the price hike, but said he won't "play politics" with the reserve, noting its role as an emergency resource. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Scientists studying the dog genome release new details regarding the age and characteristics of different breeds. The findings, published in Science magazine, show that the Husky and Pekingese breeds have more in common than you might think -- and that some apparently ancient breeds are not so ancient after all. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The body of 26-year-old Nicholas Berg was returned to the United States Wednesday. President Bush denounced the killing of Berg, a U.S. civilian whose decapitation by masked men was shown in a video on an al Qaeda-linked web site. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.