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2005 has been a year of amazing twists and turns of fortune at the city of San Diego, the most unusual year in the city's history as far as changing leadership is concerned. KPBS reporter Alison St.

A report in The New York Times Friday says in 2002, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor the international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of people inside the United States. The surveillance went on for years and was conducted without court approval in order to search for evidence of terrorist activity.

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John Warner (R-VA), makes an unscheduled visit to the Pentagon to demand details of U.S. military efforts to pay journalists to plant stories in Iraqi newspapers. The Pentagon says disclaimers that were meant to run with the stories were omitted.

A federal judge reversed most of the strippergate convictions of ex San Diego City Councilman Michael Zucchet, but upheld convictions against former Councilman Ralph Inzunza and strip club lobbyist La

English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. Pinter has earned his own adjective, "Pinteresque," which refers to his use of spare dialogue and banal settings to create a sense of dread and implied violence in everyday relationships.

From Mirrormasks opening titleswith their multi-planed graphics and slightly whimsical, slightly disturbed three-dimensional drawingsyou know youre in for a treat. The film begins at a family circus fueled by little more than the dreams of Morris (Rob Brydon) and Joanne (Gina McKee), its husband and wife owners. Their daughter Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), however, has grown tired of the nomadic life and ironically wishes to run away from the circus to join the real world. But young Helena is about to move even further away from reality. She is about to enter the Dark Lands, a dreamscape/nightmare world filled with strange creatures, outlandish architecture, and an evil Queen (also played by Gina McKee). As with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Helena ultimately realizes that theres no place like home. But unlike Dorothy, she cannot just click her heels together to return. Instead, she must find the powerful Mirrormask, which may be her only means of escaping the Dark Lands and its shadowy queen.

A year ago, people who predicted that Iraq was headed toward a Shia-Sunni civil war were scoffed at by supporters of the U.S.-led invasion. But sectarian strife appears to be on the rise in Baghdad.

Severe drought has led to famine in the West African nation of Niger. Millions of people are in need of food and water. The story of one village highlights the difficult process of distributing food.

Sixty years ago Saturday, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay loosed a 10,000-pound atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. We remember Aug. 6, 1945, and the people whose lives were changed by it.

Iran's presidential election Friday is the most tightly contested contest since the Islamic revolution of 1979, according to preliminary polls. Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani is considered the frontrunner, but analysts say none of the seven candidates is likely to obtain 50 percent of the vote, with a run-off race possible. NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Tehran.