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The United Nations releases a new report on human rights in Baghdad on Saturday. The report, covering the last six months of 2007, acknowledges a marked decrease in violence, but it cites a need for improvement in other aspects of human rights if those security gains are to be sustained.

Hundreds of people joined a week of street protests against Chinese rule led by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The rare protests started Monday to mark the 49th anniversary of an uprising against the Communist regime.

Secularist Shiite politican Ahmad Chalabi was for years part of an opposition group dedicated to overthrowing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. He's also the subject of the new book The Man Who Pushed America to War.

The investment bank Bear Stearns is in trouble. The Federal Reserve and rival bank JPMorgan Chase agreed to provide emergency funding for the troubled company on Friday. Marketplace's Janet Babin explains what the bailout means.

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The Races for Supervisor: A Hot Contest or a Slam Dunk?

History is being made with the shocking resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer following a prostitution scandal. Lt. Gov. David Paterson will become New the state's first African-American governor. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and State Senator Malcolm Smith discuss Paterson's career.

The Japan Sumo Association is grappling with a 17-year-old junior wrestler's death after he was beaten during training last year. Law professor Mark West looks at a sport steeped in tradition and secrecy.

Saying he looks at his brief tenure as "what might have been," New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday. The former state attorney general, who fought Wall Street and organized crime, was named as a client of a prostitution ring.

As Iran prepares to elect a new parliament on Friday, hundreds of reform candidates have been disqualified by a non-elected council. Iran's leaders say this is democracy. Critics in Iran say it's hardly democratic.