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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.

Nigeria produces so much oil that just the possibility of trouble there affects world markets. Prices first approached $60 a barrel after this summer's threat to the U.S. consulate. Oil first hit $50 last fall after another news item from Nigeria. A Niger Delta rebel ordered all oil companies out of the country.

Iraq's national security adviser has released a list of the country's most-wanted criminals. It includes Saddam Hussein's first wife and eldest daughter. The list was issued one day after the bloodiest bombing in Iraq in months killed more than 60 people.

On five-year anniversary of 9/11, we take a look at the impact of 9/11 through a conversation with San Diego leaders.

Sitting in the courtyard of the Prado Restaurant, Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke recalls the silly idea that inspired him to make Duck Season.

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, one of the leaders among attorneys representing detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is being forced to leave the Navy. Swift has been passed up for promotion -- and under Navy policy, he is required to retire. But people who've worked with Swift say the Navy is losing a great litigator.

After the deadly terrorist attacks on the USS Cole and French tanker Limburg, many feared that Yemen would become al Qaeda's next base of operations. It hasn't... yet. But growing repression, corruption and lack of services are prompting fear that anger at the regime could play into the hands of al Qaeda supporters.

After four years of delays and legal detours, jury selection will begin Monday for the sentencing of admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. He has already pleaded guilty to complicity in the Sept. 11 plots. But federal law lays down a high standard of proof before a jury can impose the death penalty, the sentence prosecutors are seeking.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is ramping up already tight security as bombings in Sharm el-Sheik escalate the nation's struggle with terrorists. Scores of people have already been detained.

The only man convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, was freed from a Scottish prison on what Scottish authorities call "compassionate grounds." He is terminally ill with cancer. Guests examine the limits of compassion.