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Candidates for the Democratic nomination to be president were in Louisiana on Saturday courting party insiders at the National Conference of Black Mayors in Baton Rouge.

The cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan is at an all-time high. The United Nations says the country is expected to produce nearly 9,000 tons of opium this year — nearly all of the world's supply. But some anti-drug teams have been successful in reducing the amount planted.

Nations and corporations are jostling for a share of the Arctic — a seemingly barren region that everybody wants to own. The climate is changing, and so is the business climate, which you can see when visiting a remote spot north of the Arctic Circle, Bathhurst Inlet.

Monks in Myanmar have ceased coming out of their temples and the military is cracking down on what remains of public protests. Melissa Block talks with the U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Yangon, Myanmar, about the situation. The Charge d'Affaires says conducting diplomacy with the Myanmar government has been difficult at best.

An Iraqi government report calls for the U.S. government to sever ties with the private security contractor Blackwater USA. It also wants the company to pay $8 million in compensation to the families of each of the 17 people killed last month by Blackwater guards in Baghdad.

Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, talks with Alex Chadwick about her performance on a Golden Globe-nominated song. Franklin is one of several artists who collaborated on "Never Gonna Break My Faith," featured in the film Bobby. It is now up for the Golden Globe's best original song award.

The American Cancer Society reports that cancer deaths have dropped for the second consecutive year. The biggest decline was in deaths from colorectal cancer. Researchers credited lower rates of smoking and more screening.

As Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker testify on the military's "surge" operation in Iraq, we look to reaction in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday that the approach is working, but Sunni political blocs in parliament took issue with his assessment.

The Intelligence Oversight Board is the principal civilian watchdog of the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies. President Bush is likely to sign an executive order by the end of 2007 that will fundamentally change the way the group does its job, leading it to farm out the bulk of its responsibilities.

Even though the democracy advocate is being held virtually incommunicado in her Myanmar home, she continues to hold a powerful position among activists and in her country.