In other news, the death toll from Monday's earthquake in central Italy continued to rise and a bomb near a sacred Baghdad shrine killed at least seven people and wounded 20.
In the day's other news, reports showing increased home sales helped fuel a rally on Wall Street and the Mexican government announced it will offer $2 million each for the arrest of 24 top drug lords in its latest effort…
Author Beverly Gage discusses her book, "The Day Wall Street Exploded," which examines the fallout from a 1920 bomb attack that killed dozens of people and wounded scores more during lunch hour on Wall Street.
World markets reacted positively to news of China's planned stimulus, and a suicide bomber targeted a U.S. air base in Afghanistan. Jim Lehrer recaps the day's other news headlines, including a report from Margaret Warner in Afghanistan.
Ten elite Army soldiers who subdued a large insurgent stronghold in the mountains of Afghanistan after a nearly seven-hour battle were honored Friday with Silver Stars. Ray Suarez reports on the extraordinary battle.
A bomb planted near a bus in Lebanon's second-largest city of Tripoli exploded early Wednesday, killing as many as 18 and wounding more than 40 in what is suspected to be an attack on the Lebanese army.
Afghan and NATO forces, backed by helicopter gunships, moved into villages outside Kandahar on Wednesday, killing at least 36 suspected Taliban fighters as part of an assault on insurgents holed up in the valley in southern Afghanistan.
A suicide bomb killed at least 12 Iraqis at a security checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, as news emerged that 2007 was the deadliest year for U.S. soldiers in Iraq since the war started, despite an overall drop in…
London police defused two car bombs early Friday morning, one near Piccadilly Circus, the city's theater and entertainment district, and the other in the Hyde Park area.
A man pulled into a busy Baghdad market Tuesday, called for help unloading his pickup truck and then detonated explosives, killing at least 60 people and wounding another 150.
