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Brazil holds its presidential election Sunday. The incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, holds the lead, but there have been charges of corruption that may result in a runoff with his main opponent, former state governor Geraldo Alckmin of the centrist Social Democracy Party.

This weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led air strikes in Afghanistan. That war ousted the Taliban's brutal regime. It brought relief to many -- and tragedy to a few. Afghans who lived through it recall the bombing campaign.

The response to Mark Foley's unmasking as an Internet predator on juveniles is somewhere between an embarrassing blip and a disastrous exposure of hypocrisy. Either way, it doesn't help the GOP at a moment when doubts about Iraq are being fanned by intelligence reports and the hard-hitting new book from Bob Woodward.

American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to a biologist. Roger Kornberg at Stanford University is being honored for figuring out the details of how our cells read DNA. He's not the first in his family to win a Nobel Prize. His father, Arthur Kornberg, won in 1959.

In the 21 years he's managed Yale University's investments, David Swensen has made an average 16 percent annual return — better than any portfolio manager at any university. Now he's teaching individual investors how best to save for retirement.

The spinach industry in California was booming, until an outbreak of E. coli bacteria contamination put a halt to the sale of raw spinach. But the industry does not expect the scare to permanently damage the foods popularity.

It's too early to say exactly what caused the ongoing E. Coli spinach contamination, but consumers shouldn't shy away from spinach grown in places other than the Salinas Valley, says a food-safety expert. Michele Norris talks with Carl Winter, Director of the FoodSafe Program.

The rebellious Senate Republicans and the White House may have come to an agreement on language on how to treat detainees. But it remains to be seen where the Democrats stand -- or how the deal will be received in the House of Representatives.

Football returns to the Superdome in New Orleans as the NFL's Saints post a 23-3 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. The event featured former President Bush for the coin flip and musical performances by U2 and Green Day.