Interviews suggest that Iraq?s Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki overestimated his military?s abilities and underestimated the scale of the resistance in Basra.
AP - France and Germany were poised to thwart a drive by President Bush to place the strategically important Black Sea states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for NATO membership at a tense alliance summit.
AP - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, rejecting criticism of attacks by the terror network's followers that have killed thousands, maintained that it does not kill innocent people.
Southwest Airlines tried to keep serious problems with its maintenance program hidden and pressured the Federal Aviation Administration to keep out an inspector who noticed the problems, according to two FAA inspectors.
Gwenyth Jackaway picked "Donor X" because he appeared philosophical and intelligent on paper. Her son Dylan, now 5½, already reads at a fourth-grade level, and also happens to be autistic. Jackaway reached out to other women who used the same donor and found another bond between some of them: autism.