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The article presents information on the prospects of U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton in the election. Clinton's vote of support to the Iraq war in October 2002 is weakening the base of the Democratic Party. She has proposed that the U.S. Congress should ask U.S. President George W. Bush to end war in Iraq.

Reports on the case of German Muslim car salesman Khaled el-Masri who claimed he was kidnapped as a tourist in Macedonia, and interrogated and abused while in detention in Afghanistan on suspicion of being an Al Qaeda operative before being released without being charged of any crime. Munich prosecutor Martin Hoffman's belief in the credibility of el-Masri' story; El-Masri's lawyer Manfred R. Gnjidic's suspicion that his client was a victim of the U.S. Central Intelligence practice of handing custody of a prisoner to another country for purposes of interrogation.

Profiles Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a 38-year-old Jordanian, described as one of the world's most dangerous terrorists. Link between Saddam Hussein's deposed regime and the Qaeda terror network; Letter from Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden asking bin Laden to send Al Qaeda operatives to Iraq to help Zarqawi continue the guerrilla war

Reports on a prisoner exchange involving Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and the United States. Britons released in exchange for Saudis detained by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Need to satisfy U.S. allies in the War on Terror; Defense of the deal by negotiators involved in the bargain.

Examines "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller's decision not to testify before a federal grand jury and reveal her confidential source. Investigation into whether the U.S. President George W. Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative, to reporters; How Miller spent 85 days in jail, then relented, revealing her source as I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff; Significance of Miller's role in the investigation; How the "New York Times" turned Miller's case into a cause; Background on Miller, who is known for her expertise in intelligence and security issues.

The article reports that leaders within the Democratic Party are staying neutral on who they will support for the party's presidential nomination in an attempt to avoid divisions within the party at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado, in August 2008. The close race between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama could be decided by 796 party insiders known as superdelegates.

The article reports that former U.S. President Bill Clinton met with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazabayev in 2005, accompanied by Canadian financier Frank Giustra. Giustra subsenquently was awarded a lucrative uranium mining concession from Kazakhstan. He has donated well over $130 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Clinton.

The article focuses on the donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation established by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The organization has raised more than $500 million since it was founded in 2001. The relationship between its donors and the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton has become a political issue. Many of the donors are close political allies of Hillary Clinton, raising the possibility of conflicts of interest.

This article reports on how political fundraiser Norman Hsu ingratiated himself to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democratic political candidates and incumbent politicians by being extraordinarily generous with his own money and by being a tireless fundraiser. Hsu used his relationships with the politicians to advance his own reputation as a businessman, but no one knew that he was a convicted felon who was still wanted on a warrant from the state of California.

The article reports that martyrdom videotapes, diary entries and receipts for cash transfers are illuminating the lives of the terrorists who planned to blow up ten airplanes over the Atlantic. The evidence reveals that the bombers were not yet prepared to strike and that the motivation behind the British arrests was fear of a possible, not specific, threat.

The article focuses on what led U.S. President George W. Bush into the Iraq War in 2003. According to a confidential memo, President Bush told Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair that he would invade Iraq even if there were no weapons of mass destruction and without a United Nations resolution. David Manning, the British chief foreign policy adviser, summarized diplomatic and military strategy that was discussed in the closed door meeting in the Oval Office on January 31, 2003.

The article reports on the conviction of Abu Hamza al-Masri, Britain's most prominent radical Muslim cleric. Masri was convicted of 11 charges of soliciting murder and racial hatred for using his sermons to encourage his followers to kill non-Muslims. the author reviews how Masri is also wanted in the United States on charges of hostage taking and conspiracy in connection with an attack in Yemen in 1998.

Reports that some police officials in London, England, are considering the possibility that the four bombers who attacked the mass transit system on July 7, 2005 did not plan to commit suicide and were duped into dying. Examples of evidence to support this theory; Belief that the men may have been tricked into carrying bombs onto the trains and leaving them, thinking they would explode later; Evidence that suggests they were suicide bombers; Complications in the investigation, including conflicting witness accounts of the July 21, 2005 attackers' behavior; Why the suicide question has major implications for the investigation and for the assessment of the terrorist threat to London; Debate within the investigation and wider intelligence circles; Issue of an unknown mastermind who might have organized both attacks and who could be organizing others.

Offers a look at the investigation of terrorist bombings in London, England and Sharm el Sheik, Egypt as of July 25, 2005. Efforts of officials to determine possible connections between the incidents; Investigation of the potential role of Al Qaeda in each bombing; View of counterterrorism investigators that a direct connection between the British and Egyptian bombings is unlikely; Discussion of increasing terrorist activities and political violence in Europe and the Middle East; Profile of the work of international intelligence officials to investigate and prevent terrorism.

Reports that Britain's Scotland Yard admitted that a man police officers gunned down on a London subway had nothing to do with the investigation into the recent bombing attacks there. Background on the death of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian, who was gunned down in full public view; Perception of the incident as a setback to the investigation into cells suspected of subway terrorism; Developments in the investigation into the July 7 and July 27 attacks in London; Reactions to the killing of de Menezes; Debate over the arming of British police officers; Alarm of the country's Muslims; The rising tension in London; Background on de Menezes.

Reports that plainclothes British police officers fatally shot a suspect on a subway train as horrified passengers looked on. Review of the officers were on a shoot-to-kill order following the terrorist attacks that have traumatized Britain; Summarization of the incident, in which a man was shot five times at point blank range after being chased by police; Discussion of the photographs of four terrorist suspects released by British authorities that were taken from closed-circuit television cameras. INSET: Four Suspects.

Reports that less than a month before the London bombings, Britain's top intelligence and law enforcement officials concluded that no group was able or intending to strike the country, according to a confidential terror threat assessment report. Observation that the previously undisclosed report was sent to British government agencies, foreign governments and corporations; How the assessment by the Joint Terrorist Analysis Center prompted the British government to lower its threat assessment; Excerpts from the report, which stated that terrorist-related activity in Britain was a direct result of violence in Iraq; Reactions of Prime Minister Tony Blair and other British government leaders; Call by some British politicians for an inquiry into whether the attacks represented a failure of intelligence and whether the investigation has been handled properly.

Reports that British police have announced that four British-born men carried out the terrorist bombings in London. Announcement that one man's body was found in the wreckage of the London Underground and that property belonging to three more was found at the location of the other blasts; Review of how authorities stopped short of declaring that the attacks were suicide bombings; Search of six houses in the northern city of Leeds; Discussion of how the four men, whose names have not been released, were recorded by closed circuit television cameras arriving at King's Cross station carrying backpacks just before three of the bombs exploded. INSET: Developments in the Investigation.

Reports that British investigators believe that the bombs used in the coordinated terrorist attacks in London, England contained sophisticated high-grade explosives, according to British and European counterterrorism officials. Similarity of the material used in the bombs to the kind manufactured for military use or highly technical commercial purposes; Comments of counterterrorism and law enforcement officials; Theories of investigators, who suspect there was at least one technically savvy bomb maker; How determining the physical origin of the explosives is crucial to helping investigators determine the origin of the bombs that tore apart three trains in the underground and a bus; Details of the investigation; Reference to the terror cell in Spain which was responsible for the commuter train attack in Madrid in March 2004.

Reports that British intelligence officials, frustrated by their failure to quickly crack the worst terrorist attack here since World War II, have sought help from counterparts in the United States and two dozen European allies to develop possible leads. Review of how a private meeting was held in London between Scotland Yard and MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, that brought together law enforcement officials from the United States and Europe; Summarization of the London bombings, which killed forty-nine people and left more than seven-hundred injured.

Details the results to date of the ongoing investigation into the terrorist bombings of the London subway and bus. Belief of investigators that bombs were crude and the possible work of a home-grown group; Description of a possible suspect in the bus bombing by witnesses; Discussion of continuing investigation and efforts to recover other possible victims of the bombings; Comments from Andy Trotter, deputy chief constable of the British Transport Police.

Reports that investigators searching for clues in the bombing attacks in London, England, said that the three bombs used in the subway apparently were detonated by timers, and that a fourth device may have been intended for a target other than the city bus that it destroyed. How officials drew parallels between the London bombings and the ones that struck commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, which were carried out by a Qaeda-inspired cell; Questions confronting Scotland Yard; Issue of the unexpectedness of the attack, including the lack of a warning; Comments of Brian Paddick, deputy assistant commission of the Metropolitan Police; Observation that the terrorist alert level was not raised to coincide with the opening of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Scotland; Overview of the investigation by counterterrorism officials in London; How, like Madrid, the attacks on London were aimed at ordinary workers.

Discusses how the decision by an Italian judge to order the arrest of 13 people linked to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect dramatizes a growing rift between American counterterrorism officials and their counterparts in Europe. Background on the case; Criminal charges against the 13; Sources of European frustration with U.S. tactics; Criticism of the CIA's policy of rendition, which allows taking foreign terror suspects to countries that are known to use torture; Issue of lack of access to terrorism suspects and information held by the U.S.; Comments of an Italian counterterrorism investigator and other Italian officials; Details on the abduction of Egyptian suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, or Abu Omar, who led a militant mosque in Milan; Reactions of some former American intelligence officials to the warrants; Outlook for the investigation.

Focuses on the so-called rendition program, under which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transfers terrorism suspects to foreign countries to be held and interrogated, linking the U.S. to other countries with poor human rights records. The sharp turnabout in U.S. relations with Uzbekistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks; How the President George W. Bush administration turned to Uzbekistan as a partner in fighting global terrorism; Issue of Uzbekistan's human rights violations, including torture of prisoners by police; Growing evidence that the U.S. has sent terror suspects to Uzbekistan for detention and interrogation; How details of the CIA's prisoner transfer program have emerged from former detainees who were released; Background on the program; Comments of Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan; The strategic partnership between the U.S. and Uzbekistan.

Focuses on the action of Osama bin Laden on terrorism in Saudi Arabia. Public pronouncements about terrorism; Order of truce on European government to withdraw their troops from Iraq; Appeal to the American government.

Reports on the growing threat posed by regional militant Islamic groups worldwide. Affiliation of the regional terrorist groups with the Al Qaeda; Citations of the countries wherein terrorist groups are establishing training camps; Capability of the groups to mount an attack similar to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Reports that an Arab television network broadcast an audiotape said to have been recorded by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two man in the Al Qaeda terrorist organization behind Osama bin Laden, urging Muslims to attack Western interests. Quote from the tape, which was broadcast of Al Jazeera, calling for more terrorist attacks on the United States; Impact of suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco on security concerns; What global intelligence analysts fear about the tape.

Reports on the plans of U.S. General Accounting Office chief David M. Walker to go to court to force the White House to turn over the names of industry executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on national energy policy. Vow made to protect the rights of the agency; Effect of a lawsuit on Cheney; Lack of signs in Cheney's willingness to give in on the issue.

Reports on the review directed by U.S. President George W. Bush's top economic adviser Lawrence B, Lindsey of the broad economic effects of a potential collapse of Enron Corp. Connection of Lindsey with Enron; Failure to receive phone calls from Enron executives seeking help; Commencement of the review of the potential impact of Enron's trouble.

Reports on the warning issued by a senior Enron employee to the company's chairman about the consequences of several years of improper accounting practices according to a letter sent to U.S. Congressional investigators. Distribution of excerpts from the letter; Things suggested in the seven-page letter; Significance of the missive for Enron problems.

MIAMI -- Police Chief Miguel A. Exposito, whose nearly two-year tenure has been marked by numerous clashes with the mayor and a series of police shootings of unarmed black men, was suspended from his job on Tuesday in a move that could be the prelude to his dismissal. City Manager Johnny Martinez told Chief Exposito that he was suspended during a closed-door meeting. The Miami Herald reported that the chief left the meeting on Tuesday morning accompanied by his lawyer, Ruben Chavez, and that both men declined to comment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MIAMI -- Hurricane-preparedness is now all about watching the cone. And on Tuesday, Hurricane Irene's tracking cone curved just far enough away from the Florida peninsula to cause emergency officials up and down the state to breathe a cautious sigh of relief. ''We are out of the cone at the moment, though we have seen it wobble in the past,'' said Peter Elwell, the town manager in Palm Beach, Fla., referring to the constantly evolving cone on forecast maps that designates a hurricane's probable path. ''The cone moving away from us is a mixed bag: you know the bullet you are dodging is going to hit somebody else.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- The British police arrested the Hollywood reporter for the defunct tabloid The News of the World on Thursday, according to a person close to the investigation. He is the 13th person to be arrested in the scandal over phone hacking. The reporter, James Desborough, worked in Britain for the newspaper for four years before being sent to Hollywood in 2009. It is not clear when the crimes he is suspected of committing -- gaining illegal access to other people's voice mail messages -- took place. Until 2005, Mr. Desborough covered celebrity culture for The People, a Sunday tabloid owned by Trinity Mirror, which also publishes The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the police in London questioned a 12th suspect in connection with Britain's widening phone hacking scandal on Wednesday, Scotland Yard announced that Dick Fedorcio, its longtime director of public affairs, had been placed on extended leave until the criminal inquiries were concluded. Mr. Fedorcio, an 11-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Service in London, was criticized by a parliamentary committee last month for hiring Neil Wallis, a former deputy editor at The News of the World, as a public relations consultant for the police from October 2009 until September 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MIAMI -- Three miles off Havana on Sunday evening, the Florida Straits were still glasslike when the 61-year-old marathon swimmer Diana Nyad felt her right shoulder seize up with pain. But she kept swimming. At 1:30 p.m. Monday, with the ocean swells now buffeting her, Ms. Nyad was struck by an asthma attack, her first ever, and struggled to breathe. But she kept swimming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- When a Parliamentary committee first confronted The News of the World with charges of phone hacking in 2007, the paper's owners produced a reassuring, one-paragraph letter from a prominent London law firm named Harbottle & Lewis. The firm had been hired to review the e-mail of the tabloid's royal reporter, who had pleaded guilty to hacking the cellphone messages of royal household staff members. The letter said senior editors were not aware of the reporter's ''illegal actions,'' which helped convince lawmakers that hacking was not endemic at the tabloid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- It was perhaps inevitable that the phone hacking accusations in Britain would cross the Atlantic and reach Piers Morgan, the flamboyant former Fleet Street editor who is now the host of ''Piers Morgan Tonight'' on CNN. James Hipwell, a former journalist at The Daily Mirror, a tabloid edited by Mr. Morgan until 2004, now says that phone hacking was ''endemic'' at the paper. ''Piers was extremely hands-on as an editor,'' Mr. Hipwell, 45, told the British newspaper The Independent in an interview published Saturday. ''I can't say 100 percent that he knew about it. But it was inconceivable he didn't.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- On Dec. 21 last year, The Daily Telegraph was preparing to publish a blockbuster exclusive: Vince Cable, the government's business secretary, had been caught on tape boasting that he had ''declared war'' on Rupert Murdoch and would find a convenient legal excuse to block the News Corporation's bid for British Sky Broadcasting, Britain's most lucrative satellite television network. But the day before The Telegraph was to run the article, the paper was scooped by Robert Peston, the business editor of the BBC. Mr. Peston reported that ''a whistle-blower'' had provided him with a secretly recorded conversation between The Telegraph's undercover reporters and Mr. Cable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED LONDON -- Rupert and James Murdoch said repeatedly during their extended testimony before a parliamentary committee in Britain that their involvement in managing the News Corporation's response to the phone hacking scandal was limited. Rupert Murdoch said he felt let down by ''the people that I trusted and then, maybe the people they trusted.'' Even so, the Murdochs' defense of their roles highlighted several issues that continuing investigations by parliamentary committees and the police are likely to examine in greater detail. Among them: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- The British phone-hacking scandal crept closer to Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain on Tuesday when his party admitted that another former news executive recently arrested may have provided informal public relations advice before last year's election. The Conservative Party said that the executive, Neil Wallis, may have provided Mr. Cameron's communications director, Andy Coulson, with unpaid advice on a voluntary basis and that it was looking into the matter. Mr. Wallis had been Mr. Coulson's deputy at The News of the World, the newspaper in Rupert Murdoch's media empire, now defunct, at the center of the phone-hacking scandal, but left in 2009. Mr. Coulson was arrested July 8 as part of the police investigation into phone hacking by reporters at The News of the World. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- Britain's top police official resigned on Sunday, the latest casualty of the phone-hacking scandal engulfing British public life, just hours after Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, was arrested on suspicion of illegally intercepting phone calls and bribing the police. The official, Sir Paul Stephenson, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, commonly known as the Met or Scotland Yard, said that he had decided to step down because ''the ongoing speculation and accusations relating to the Met's links with News International at a senior level'' had made it difficult for him to do his job. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- For nearly four years they lay piled in a Scotland Yard evidence room, six overstuffed plastic bags gathering dust and little else. Inside was a treasure-trove of evidence: 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been hacked by The News of the World, a now defunct British tabloid newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- Facing the unpleasant prospect of being represented by a pair of empty chairs and a period of silence at a parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking next week, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, and his son James reversed themselves on Thursday and said that yes, they would testify at the hearing after all. The select committee on culture, media and sport will now have the chance to interrogate not only the two Murdochs but also Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, the company's British newspaper subsidiary. Ms. Brooks had agreed from the outset to testify. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article was reported byJohn F. Burns, Don Van Natta Jr. andAlan Cowell, and written by Mr. Burns. LONDON -- Rupert Murdoch's once-commanding influence in British politics seemed to dwindle to a new low on Tuesday, when all three major parties in Parliament joined in support of a sharp rebuke to his ambitions and a parliamentary committee said it would call him, along with two other top executives, to testify publicly next week about the growing scandal enveloping his media empire. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy's papers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, his family members are having second thoughts about where they should be housed and are considering moving them elsewhere because they believe that the presidential library has not done enough to honor the younger brother's legacy. Many of the papers, dealing with Cuba, Vietnam and civil rights, are classified as secret or top secret. There are also 2,300 other boxes covering every stage of Robert Kennedy's life, including his years as a United States senator and attorney general, most of which have already been opened for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own cellphone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to. The disclosure, based on interviews with current and former officials, raises the question of whether senior investigators feared that if they aggressively investigated, The News of the World would punish them with splashy articles about their private lives. Some of their secrets, tabloid-ready, eventually emerged in other news outlets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MIAMI -- The hacker group Anonymous has declared a cyberwar against the City of Orlando, disabling Web sites for the city's leading redevelopment organization, the local Fraternal Order of Police and the mayor's re-election campaign. Anonymous, a large yet loosely formed group of hackers that claimed responsibility for crashing the Web sites of MasterCard and the Church of Scientology, began attacking the Orlando-based Web sites earlier this week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEAUMONT, Tex. -- Mildred Ella Babe Didrikson Zaharias has, in many ways, become America's all-but-forgotten sports superstar. And nowhere is Didrikson's faded sporting legacy felt more powerfully than here in her hometown, where she hopped hedges along Doucette Street and learned how to play golf at Beaumont Country Club. Off Interstate 10, a modest, circular brick museum, built in 1976 as a tribute to Babe, is easy to miss. Its smudged glass cases are stocked with the loot collected during Didrikson's fabulous sporting life: the medals, trophies, golf clubs and get-well telegrams and letters, from housewives and schoolchildren, prime ministers and presidents, now yellowed and fading. It is open every day except Christmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MIAMI -- On the first tee, President Lyndon B. Johnson often warned his golfing partners, ''One lesson you'd better learn if you want to be in politics is you never get out on a golf course and beat the president.'' House Speaker John A. Boehner is unlikely to heed that advice when he and President Obama play a highly anticipated round of golf on Saturday. For one thing, Speaker Boehner, who has worked hard to maintain his single-digit handicap, is a better golfer than the president (by as many as 15 strokes, according to reliable estimates) and is not expected to dutifully tank his own game. Already, the Ohio Republican has used the ''golf summit'' as a chance to score a few political points off Mr. Obama, who finally -- after much prodding by Mr. Boehner -- invited the Republican leader to play 18 holes with him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MIAMI -- A black BMW flashing red and blue lights suddenly filled Alexandria Armeley's rearview mirror one evening last month. At a stoplight, the BMW's driver pulled up next to her, waved a gold badge and told her ''I'm a cop.'' But Ms. Armeley was suspicious. Before she pulled over, she called her stepfather, Alex Hernandez, a police detective in Biscayne Park, Fla., who warned her that the man was probably not a police officer. Speed away, he told her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]