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The body of Slobodan Milosevic arrives in Belgrade, Serbia on Wednesday, five years after the former Serb President was sent to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes. The Serbian government has refused a state funeral for Milosevic; he will be buried on the grounds of his provincial home.

Elderly prisoners in California cost taxpayers three times as much to take care of as other inmates. A new study looks at why that might be. KPBS reporter Beth Ford Roth has more.

A Nigerian militant group holding three foreign oil workers hostage claims to be fighting to win a greater share of oil wealth on behalf of the Niger Delta's impoverished inhabitants. The government characterizes the militants as criminals and oil thieves.

The White House releases its review of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. The 217-page report was far less harsh in its assessment of what went wrong than a similar report last week by a House committee. But the administration admits the response was flawed, and recommends more than 100 ways to address problems that emerged during the storm.

Debra Grannick won her pharmacist's degree at USC and went on to manage the massive COSTCO pharmacy on Morena Boulevard. But no one at USC could have prepared her for the chaos that now envelops her, and tens of thousands other pharmacists across America.

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the army is trying to wipe out a group of renegade militiamen. In the 1990s, the Mai Mai were autonomous local defense forces but they've since mutated into small rogue armies. The government says the Mai Mai are terrorizing people in the southeast region of the country.

A crackdown on the media in China during the past few months met with a rebuttal Tuesday from several former Communist party officials. In an open letter, they lambasted the propaganda department for censorship, including the closure of a progressive publication known as Freezing Point.

Anger at the government's treatment of a blind whistle-blower in East China boiled over Sunday when villagers clashed with police. Chen Guangcheng has been confined to his house by the local government after uncovering a program of forced sterilizations and abortions.

Betty Friedan, whose manifesto The Feminine Mystique became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85.