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After years of fighting, hunger and destruction, people in Yemen reflect on what they've lost and their low expectations for ending a war that has devastated the country.

In an effort to end gender segregation, the Marine Corps recently decommissioned a historic recruit training battalion that for decades was the only one open to women.

After winning the most seats in Pakistan's general election, the party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is putting together a coalition that could restore the judges President Pervez Musharraf sacked last year. The judges, in turn, could throw Musharraf out of office.

President Bush announces the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a White House news conference. In a later media session, Bush and Rumsfeld shared a podium with Rumsfeld's successor, former CIA chief Robert Gates. Melissa Block talks with NPR's John Hendren.

The Blackwater security firm, subject of headlines related to deadly shootings in Iraq, would like to get more business working on natural disasters in the United States. In fact, it already has: its employees provided security to FEMA staff after Hurricane Katrina. But its future plan has made some people edgy.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency, suspending the country's constitution, firing the chief justice of the Supreme Court and filling the streets of this capital city with police officers. International pressure mounts against imposition of emergency powers.

President Bush Thursday lifts trade sanctions against North Korea and moves to remove it from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move comes after Pyongyang hands over accounting of its nuclear work to Chinese officials.

Lithuania is hosting the meeting, and some in the former Soviet republic feel pride for getting that chance.

The latest developments in the strike by Hollywood actors that began after the SAG-AFTRA union called off negotiations with movie and television studios on Thursday.

Dan Fesperman's spy caper Pariah follows a disgraced comic-politician who's recruited by the CIA. The Dancing Face, by Mike Phillips, is a crime caper that confronts the spoils of colonialism.