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Nearly simultaneous bomb blasts in New Delhi on Saturday night kill more than 50 people and left nearly 200 injured. Also, a train wreck in southern India killed about 110 people.

This weekend, Syria's president ordered his government to open an investigation into alleged Syrian involvement in the assassination of a Lebanese politician. Until now, Syria has vehemently denied any involvement in the crime and has denounced the United Nations' allegations that Syrian officials were complicit in the murder.

Manadel al-Jamadi died in Abu Ghraib, just hours after his capture by Navy SEALs and the CIA. His death was ruled a homicide. A special report investigates what happened just before Jamadi's collapse.

Syria vehemently denounces the United Nations' report on that country's role in the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for The Washington Post, has details of Damascus' response.

A majority of Iraqis approved the country's draft constitution in the Oct. 15 referendum, Iraq's Electoral Commission announces. Sunni Arabs opposed the document, which was drafted mainly by Kurdish and Shiite politicians who dominate the legislature. Dan Murphy of The Christian Science Monitor has the details.

At least 2,000 U.S. forces have been killed in Iraq since the United States invaded the country two and a half years ago. With the support of a majority of Americans waning, many Senate Democrats are reconsidering their votes to authorize President Bush's military action in Iraq -- an issue that continues to split the party.

The United States and France announce support for a U.N. report that implicates Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says the two nations are working on a resolution that will demand Syria's cooperation as the inquiry proceeds.

A German prosecutor is expected to brief the U.N. Security Council Tuesday about his investigation into the slaying of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The report has named senior Syrian and Lebanese officials.

In the U.S. media, it's reported that insurgents carry out much of the violence in Iraq. But commentator Anisa Mehdi says that while some attacks are part of an insurgency, others have civilian targets, and those should be called terrorism -- thus changing the nature of the debate about Iraq.

Mao: The Unknown Story was written by Jung Chang, who described the suffering of her family during the cultural revolution in the bestseller Wild Swans and her husband, the historian Jon Halliday.