A line of severe storms sweeping across the Southeast damaged homes and businesses in at least four states. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado in North Carolina.
Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen have seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government. Eleven people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in three days of street battles.
Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain speaks to Katie Couric about the situation in Myanmar, and criticism that he would be the equivilant of a third Bush term. McCain's mother .
The House passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers and bolster an economy crippled by the housing crisis.
Spain has laid formal claim to a shipwreck that yielded an estimated $500 million in treasure, saying it has proof the vessel is Spanish and demanding that a Florida deep-sea exploration firm that recovered the booty give it all back.
The CIA must let a judge view a 2002 memo purportedly including waterboarding among interrogation methods to be used on prisoners in U.S. custody so he can decide whether it should be made public, the judge ruled.
Relief supplies from the U.N. began arriving in Myanmar, but U.S. military planes loaded with aid were still denied access. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he can't imagine dropping relief aid without the military junta's permission.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, responding to fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, said he will step down if he is indicted.
Now that he's 50, Alec Baldwin tells 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer that political office is looking more appealing. Safer's report airs Sunday, May 11, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
American Airlines is investigating how a jet bound for Paris lost a panel from its belly shortly after taking off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before continuing on across the Atlantic.
