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Reports that the U.S. ambassador to Germany personally asked a German minister to keep a botched CIA rendition secret have created a political furor in Germany. German citizen Khaled el-Masri says he was wrongfully taken to Afghanistan, tortured and held for five months.

After the fall of the Taliban, California teen Said Hyder Akbar returned to the home country he'd never known: Afghanistan. His audio diaries of summer trips there form the basis of his book, Come Back to Afghanistan.

Now that San Diego's mayoral election is over, attention shifts to what the winner, Jerry Sanders, will do to tackle the city's fiscal crisis. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

French president Jacques Chirac breaks his silence on the rioting that has shaken his nation for more than week. Chirac vows to restore order but also pledges to support equal opportunity for all.

While there are a variety of films about the Vietnam War and World War II, Hollywood has been relatively silent about Desert Storm. But Universal is banking that U.S. audiences are ready for a film about the senior Bushs war in Iraq. The studio is rolling out Jarhead (opening November 4 throughout San Diego) as one of its award hopefuls for this year.

Jarhead

At least 2,000 U.S. forces have been killed in Iraq since the United States invaded the country two and a half years ago. With the support of a majority of Americans waning, many Senate Democrats are reconsidering their votes to authorize President Bush's military action in Iraq -- an issue that continues to split the party.

British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as The Caretaker and The Birthday Party and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Transportation safety officials have begun searching for clues in the sinking of a tour boat in upstate New York's Lake George. The Ethan Allen apparently listed suddenly -- possibly caused by the wake of a larger boat -- before it capsized Sunday, killing 20. Brian Mann from North Country Public Radio reports.