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President Bush announces his pick to succeed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. With little controversy surrounding him, retired federal judge Michael Mukasey is expected to speed through Senate confirmation.

Through Europe, the pace of legal justice in terrorism cases has been slow. Several are open but few judgments have been made. The situation has led some to the conclusion that the legal proceedings are designed more to gather information than dispense justice.

This past week, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Viktor Zubkov as prime minister, putting him in line to run for president next spring. NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr reflects on the state of democracy in Russia.

Today's election in Greece is dominated by the recent summer fires, which killed at least 65 people and devastated huge swathes of the country. Amid public anger over what is widely seen as the inability of the government to prevent and then deal with the emergency, there is widespread resentment over the political system, which for nearly a century has been dominated by successive generations of two families.

Until two weeks ago, Norman Hsu was a prodigious fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. Since then, he has run from the law and forced the campaign to return all the money he raised. As he built a reputation as a political money man, his background lay hidden.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says she will end her self-imposed exile and return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 in a bid to regain power.

The CIA has named a new head of its clandestine service. Mike Sulick was one of two senior officials who resigned in protest over the actions of former CIA Director Porter Goss.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has taken a controversial stand against his country's parliament in support of his foreign minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta.

BRYAN OTT: "My neighbor actually owns a lot of waterfront property and she said basically hey why don't you just use my property, you can use my boats, you can use the piers, anything."

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