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Investigators are trying to understand how a Comair plane that crashed Sunday in Kentucky ended up taking off on a runway that was too short for the plane. The crash in Lexington killed 49 people. The only survivor is the co-pilot, who is in critical condition.

New York Times researcher Zhao Yan has been sentenced to three years in prison by a Chinese court that convicted him of fraud. He was found not guilty of revealing state secrets, a charge related to a 2004 report that Chinese President Jiang Zemin would give up his post as head of the military.

Tom Ricks, a reporter for the Washington Post and author of the book Fiasco, says he's seen a persistent disconnect between U.S. strategy and U.S. tactics in Iraq. Ricks tells Steve Inskeep that the current U.S. strategy is being undermined by questionable tactics.

Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue. The figure is high even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of corpses this year.

Indonesia, says it will begin immunizing thousands of people against tetanus and measles. It's an effort to stop the spread of disease after last month's deadly earthquake. But many survivors are more concerned about the supply of food, which has been spotty.

Capt. Ian Weikel has been described as one of the best and brightest of Colorado Springs. Weikel was quarterback of his high school football team, a West Point graduate and a devoted Christian. Weikel, 31, was killed by an IED in Iraq on April 18.

American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well.

More than 5,000 police are guarding Indonesian government buildings ahead of expected protests over fuel-price hikes. President Yudhoyono will raise prices 87 percent Saturday to help cut crippling energy subsidies. Panic buying has already begun.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sweeps the country's first competitive presidential election. He wins a fifth consecutive term, with more than 88 percent of the vote. But opposition candidates and independent monitors condemn widespread irregularities at the polls.

In Gaza City, Palestinian Authority officials call for orderly celebrations as the withdrawal of Jewish settlers begins. But the Islamist Hamas movement calls the pullout a "victory for the armed resistance."