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An increasing number of patients say they have experienced significant complications after Lasik. Problems like dry eye, glare and double vision have impaired their ability to function and significantly affected their quality of life. The FDA has decided to investigate further and hopes to identify what puts people at risk for complications.

More than 3 million jobs in the health care industry will be created this decade, ranging from highly paid neurosurgeons to home health aids making barely above minimum wage. And more nursing jobs will be created in the next decade than in any other single profession.

The intelligence estimate says the terror network will bolster its operations in the U.S. It has also rebuilt its senior leadership and restored its safe havens in Pakistan.

Top al-Qaida suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, according to the transcript of a hearing released Wednesday. The transcript of a military hearing held last Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released by the Pentagon.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai hopes to launch peace negotiations with insurgents and lay the groundwork for an end to the war. New York Times foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins has learned that top-level Taliban leaders are crossing from Pakistan for peace talks, and in some cases being secured and flown by NATO troops.

Mike Shuster, diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent, answers questions about the strength and persistent impact of the terrorist organization al Qaeda nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators on Friday were analyzing the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a Northwest Airlines plane to find out why the pilots missed their Minneapolis airport destination by 150 miles before turning back and landing safely.

Some senators want to know why the United States calls Sudan a "strong partner in the war on terror," while at the same time accusing Khartoum of carrying out a genocide in Darfur.

With growing doubts over the way ahead in Afghanistan, confirmation hearings are set to begin for Gen. David Petraeus. The counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan calls for a surge of U.S. troops, many of whom are already on their way. But little progress has been seen on the ground.

Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court invalidated the system set up by President Bush to try accused war criminals at Guantanamo. The ruling, in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver, followed a series of key maneuvers.