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  • A natural gas boom in the Rocky Mountain West has drilling rigs popping up in unlikely places. In Colorado, gas companies want to drill close to where a nuclear bomb was detonated underground in 1969. Residents are worried about potential health risks.
  • Lagoons surrounding the atoll in the Pacific Ocean are teeming with sharks, which thrive in the food-rich environment. Scientists track the sharks to learn how they are being affected by climate change.
  • World financial leaders conclude meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The annual meetings are the first for the World Bank's new president, Robert Zoellick, who says the developed world has to take the lead in helping poor countries with debt and climate change.
  • As automakers gather for the Tokyo Motor Show, Detroit's Big Three are struggling and Japanese carmakers seem to be in the driver's seat. Among the eco-friendly concept cars is Nissan's Pivo, featuring a small robot inside the cabin.
  • As opposition to the attorney general nominee grows, President Bush defends the former judge's refusal to say if waterboarding is illegal torture. If the Senate fails to confirm Michael Mukasey, Bush hints he might skip the process and appoint someone.
  • Gen. John Abizaid tells a Senate panel that the status quo in Iraq is not acceptable. But more U.S. troops might be needed, at least temporarily, to train Iraqi forces, Abizaid said. The general also discouraged calls for a timetable to withdraw.
  • Police are searching for at least one armed suspect in connection with the killing of the owner of a gun range in Georgia and his wife and grandson after a robbery Friday evening.
  • Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto tells NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday that leaders of her opposition political party are being rounded arrested by security forces in the wake of a declaration of emergency rule by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
  • Vice President Harris joined the march across the Edmund Pettus bridge on the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when Black voting rights activists were beaten by state troopers.
  • Maple sap is being gathered to make maple sugar. A crew in Keene, N.Y., has been working in an 80-acre sugar bush. They will tap 10,000 maple trees in the next few weeks.
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