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In a departure, most Senate Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in voting to allow debate on a new resolution aimed at winding down U.S. participation in the Iraq war. The vote is a new stance for Senate Republicans, who have twice blocked resolutions on an Iraq withdrawal.

Govornor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked the federal food and agriculture department last week to declare San Diego County a disaster area because of the crippling freezes that plagued the state in Januar

In Iraq on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made an unprecedented visit to Ramadi, the capital of the unstable Anbar province. Ramadi had long been a major stronghold of Iraq's Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida in Iraq.

France's leading conservative presidential candidate, Nicholas Sarkozy, proposes a ministry of immigration and national identity. He says the move would reduce bureaucracy. Political opponents call his proposal racist and xenophobic.

Opposition leaders are among scores of Zimbabweans under arrest after a crackdown by President Robert Mugabe's security forces. One opposition leader was reportedly beaten while in police custody.

An exhibit about Eros at Rome's Colosseum seeks to illustrate the huge gap between contemporary attitudes of erotic love and how the subject was treated in antiquity.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter, assesses the foreign policies of the three most recent U.S. presidents in Second Chance. He says Washington has squandered its first chance at global leadership.

In a nationally televised address, French President Jacques Chirac announces that he is standing down from national politics after 45 years. The news comes just six weeks before France's presidential elections.

Jake Thompson, Washington Bureau Chief of the Omaha World Herald talks about an announcement expected Monday by Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who is expected to take the first step toward entering the 2008 presidential campaign.

A bill that would boost rights for unwed couples, including gays, is headed to the Italian parliament. The Vatican says the bill "goes against natural law." The debate will highlight Italy's perennial divide between the church and secular forces.