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A former State Department lawyer tells NPR he believes the Bush administration sought to collect and destroyed all copies of a 2005 memo he wrote arguing against harsh interrogation techniques.

A Muslim cleric from Jordan went to the United Kingdom in the 1990s, where he gained asylum by claiming persecution. But he supposedly started preaching hate sermons. The British government wants to send him back to Jordan, but he says he'll be tortured there. Britain's human rights laws forbid deportation to a country that tortures.

After the 2001 attacks, many declared, as Rabbi Eric Yoffie did, that "our world has irreparably changed." But even as Americans have grown accustomed to daily life in a more dangerous world, how much has really changed?

Gordon Corera, security correspondent for the BBC, warns in his new book that we may be entering a new era of accelerated weapons proliferation. In Shopping for Bombs, Corera writes about the challenges of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons and about A.Q. Khan, the man described by a former CIA director as at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden.

Yemen's American-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, said that the U.S. and Israel were behind the protest movements that have swept across Northern Africa and the Middle East. He said there is an operations room in Tel Aviv run by the White House that has the "aim of destabilizing the Arab world."

Asked about GOP opposition to any tax increases, the president said that "a lot of people say a lot of things to satisfy their base or get on cable news. ... Hopefully, leaders at a certain point rise to the occasion and do the right thing."

It is time for lawmakers in Washington to stop "playing games" and "do the right thing" to cut the federal deficit, President Obama declared at a White House news conference today.

Following an incident with a news anchor accused of cheating on his wife, posting Internet videos in China just got more complicated. As of the end of the year, only government-owned or government-controlled Web sites will be able to post Internet videos.

Libyan army units and militiamen reportedly attacked a mosque where protesters had taken refuge and fired on others protecting a local airport.

Last year, the wealthy city-state was still flying high, spending freely to fuel its ambition of becoming a business, financial and tourist capital of the Persian Gulf. Between all the oil wealth continuing to pour in and the royal family's deep coffers, few were worried about the massive debt being used to fund the development. Today, all of that has changed.