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Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) will hold a hearing this week on the growing crisis of Iraqi refugees and the U.S. responsibility to help them. Debbie Elliott speaks with Sen. Kennedy about the hearing and looks at the State Department's current refugee resettlement plans.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if Exxon Mobil wins a court settlement that could freeze billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.

In northern Iraq, thousands of Christian families remain displaced from their homes in the city of Mosul. Many are living with relatives or taking refuge in churches and monasteries in an area north of the city that's known as the Nineveh Plain.

BP had been under pressure from Washington to suspend its second-quarter dividend and use the funds to intensify cleanup operations in the Gulf. But many Britons have taken umbrage at some U.S. criticism of BP, saying that the tone has become distinctly anti-British.

More than 3,000 Serbs and Albanians remain listed as "missing or disappeared" in Kosovo, six years after the region's war. International forensic teams announced last weekend that they had found the remains of 22 Serbs, buried in a mass grave. Although 18,000 NATO troops have brought some stability, the fate of the missing haunts Kosovo.

No Dessert 'Til You Eat Your Vegetables

Gordon Brown is making his first official visit to the United States since becoming British prime minister. He is going to Capitol Hill for a meeting with lawmakers after talks with President Bush at Camp David.

This weekend, Syria's president ordered his government to open an investigation into alleged Syrian involvement in the assassination of a Lebanese politician. Until now, Syria has vehemently denied any involvement in the crime and has denounced the United Nations' allegations that Syrian officials were complicit in the murder.

First off, let's start in my booth for Film School Confidential (4017), over in Exhibit Hall E by G4. Gee, I'm already looking a little bug-eyed.

On Dec. 26, 2004, the biggest tsunami in recent memory killed more than 250,000 people around the coast of the Indian Ocean. Two years after the tsunami, people displaced by the disaster are still living intents or makeshift homes. The Red Cross promised to build 50,000 homes; so far, there are only 8,000. Host Robert Siegel speaks with the United Nations' Miloon Kothari.