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For the first time in its history, North Korea had a film screened at the Cannes film festival, which was held earlier this year. Observers say it's a cultural indication of the secretive nation's interest in opening up to the West.

Questions submitted to the popular video Web site shake up the usual campaign debate. The questions, most of them coming from young people, are blunt and earnest, and sometimes bizarre.

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Indiana's Richard Lugar, one of the most respected voices on foreign affairs, says it is time for the U.S. to consider scaling back its military commitment.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is under intense pressure for suspending the nation's chief justice and skirting the constitution. But the U.S. has continued to back Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses drug-resistant diseases. How common are they? How difficult are they to treat?

President Bush named Robert Zoellick as the next president of the World Bank. Zoellick was President Bush's first Trade Representative and then the No. 2 official at the State Department. He will replace Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned two weeks ago after a bitter battle over charges of ethical lapses. Zoellick will have to heal a World Bank sharply divided over Wolfowitz's leadership.

The University of Colorado's Board of Regents will decide the fate of a professor who likens some who died on Sept. 11 to holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann. The school president says he should be fired.

British Primer Minister Tony Blair will push for new anti-terrorism laws that would give police more power to question people without clear evidence of a crime. Blair says it's "dangerous" to put civil liberties ahead of Britain's security.

Critics of proposals to cut subsidies to the student loan industry say they could hurt low-income and black students the most. But at least some of the criticism seems to be orchestrated by private lending companies such as Sallie Mae, which stand to lose billions of dollars if the system is discontinued.