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A decision to offer the pill and other methods of contraception to children at a middle school in Portland, Maine, has touched off all sorts of controversy. The Portland School Committee voted this week to allow a clinic at the school to offer birth control. Parents must approve their children's use of the clinic but they would not be notified if the kids were given contraceptives.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has suggested that it's time his commission takes up the issue of media deregulation, to allow for further consolidation of media companies.

After a Virginia Tech student with a history of mental problems killed 32 people in a shooting rampage, the House of Representatives responded in June with legislation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. The legislation is being blocked in the Senate over concerns about the mentally ill losing their gun rights.

Pakistani police are questioning three people detained in the southern Punjab province about the attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's caravan earlier this week. The men were taking to Karaci for questioning. They are from a region known as a center for militancy.

El-Ibrahimi is transferred to a North African prison where Abasi Fawal (Yigal Naor) casually employs beatings, water soaked hoods, electrodes, humiliation and solitary confinement in a hole of a cell. Overseeing the interrogation is newbie CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) who bluntly tells Fawal, "This is my first torture." Freeman doesn't take to it very well and Fawal grows impatient with his American observer. In addition, Fawal has to deal with a rebellious daughter who's resisting an arranged marriage and is instead dating a politicized young Islamic man. Meanwhile, back in the states, Isabella hooks up with a college friend (Peter Sarsgaard) who is politically well-connected in Washington, D.C. The government, of course, denies any knowledge of Isabella's husband.

Poland's governing twin brothers came to power two years ago, on a promise to expose former communist-era collaborators who remained in influential positions. But their effort has had mixed results.

The massive bombings in Karachi shattered what had been a triumphant homecoming for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but they are unlikely to stop her return to the spotlight of Pakistani politics, analysts say.

Since Raul Castro took over the reins of power from his ailing brother, Fidel, there has been talk of a possible opening up of Cuba's socialist economy. Raul has the reputation of a reformer.

Elections in Poland will decide the fate of one of Europe's most unusual political lineups: President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Their coalition with extreme-right parties collapsed halfway through its four-year term.

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in From Here to Eternity and danced with the Siamese monarch in The King and I has died. Kerr, 86, suffered from Parkinson's disease.