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As Americans prepared to ring in the new year, unprecedented security measures were in place from coast to coast. Homeland security and counterterrorism experts assess the heightened terror alert and the nation's security preparations.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday it does not require U.S. help in dismantling Libya's nuclear weapons program. Experts discuss the United States' credibility in doing the job and the IAEA's capability.

Now that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has consented to opening his borders to U.N. weapons inspectors, the international community has begun to debate who should dismantle the country's weapons of mass destruction.

As the death toll from Friday's devastating earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam surpasses 25,000, international aid efforts are shifting from rescuing those trapped within the rubble to sanitation and survivors' humanitarian needs.