AP - With speculation mounting of a North Korean nuclear test as early as this weekend, a unanimous U.N. Security Council urged the secretive, communist nation Friday to abandon all atomic weapons as it promised last year and cancel plans to detonate a device. Japan hinted the North could face sanctions or possible military action.

AP - The Pentagon said Friday that it will investigate a Marine's sworn statement that guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as a common practice.

AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that despite Afghanistan's rising opium production and violence in the south, "the trajectory is a hopeful and promising one" five years after the Taliban's fall.