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Crowds rioted, burning homes and looting shops, in Kenya on Saturday as the country awaited the results of Thursday's presidential election. The race pitted the incumbent president against a charismatic populist.

Raila Odinga, the opposition leader in Kenya, looks likely to unseat incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, an unofficial tally of the votes shows. The election was only the second democratic vote in Kenya's history.

Bhutto's career in politics included serving twice as Pakistan's prime minister and spending eight years in exile. She was assassinated at a political rally just two months after returning to her home country.

Kenyans lined up to vote today in the closest presidential election in the country's history, despite a campaign marked by violence. President Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga are the main contenders. For our weekly Anchor Buddies series, African Correspondent Mike Pflanz of The Daily Telegraph discusses the atmosphere in Nairobi.

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is dead after gunfire and a suicide bomber targeted her vehicle as she left a campaign rally. For more, Farai Chideya talks with Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of The Daily Times in Lahore, Pakistan.

This month, when former Senator George Mitchell released his report on drug use in Major League Baseball, many thought the 80-plus players he named would be blacklisted. But this week, the L.A. Dodgers signed Gary Bennett, who admitted to using human growth hormone. Host Andrea Seabrook talks with Sports Illustrated columnist Dave Zirin about the deal and the future of baseball.

The four-day Muslim holiday Eid ul Adha comes to an end. The holiday begins after the completion of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. This Eid is the busiest time of year for an unlikely business: a North Texas butcher shop.

The future of Kosovo again tops the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. The U.N. has been running the region ever since NATO helped end a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians there eight years ago. But Kosovo's Albanians are planning to declare independence, a move resisted by Serbia.

Few of Iraq's nascent security forces have been as reviled as the country's national police, which, critics say, has been infiltrated by death squads and is riddled with corruption. But the head of the beleaguered force is trying to turn it around.

The northern city of Kirkuk, with its ethnic tensions and violence, is often viewed as a microcosm of the current situation in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited the city unannounced Tuesday. Are sectarian leaders there closer to political reconciliation?