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David Beckham plays his first game for the L.A. Galaxy Saturday. Tremendous media hype has greeted the soccer star's move from England with his "Posh" wife Victoria and family. Will Beckham fill stadiums and bend Americans into soccer fans?

A suicide bomber kills more than a dozen people near an outdoor stage where Pakistan's suspended chief justice was to make a speech. The bombing stokes fears of a wider conflict with Islamist militants after the crisis at Islamabad's Red Mosque.

Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling for an all-nighter Tuesday in the Senate, during which debate will focus on an amendment proposed by Carl Levin and Jack Reed that would require that a drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq begin in four months.

Diplomats meet in Beijing to lay out the next steps toward the goal of North Korea's full nuclear disarmament. The meeting follows the shutdown over the weekend of North Korea's main nuclear facility.

With millions of readers wanting to know what happens in the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, security surrounding the printing and distribution is ultra-high. How can a publisher keep a book under wraps, and still have it available at bookstores at one minute past midnight?

As the Senate debated the Iraq war in a rare around-the-clock session, the rarity of the all-night session is striking. And the debate was a sober one, showing increasing discontent with the war.

Ken Khachigian, senior adviser to Fred Thompson's exploratory presidential campaign, says Thompson has caught up with top GOP candidates in fundraising. It helps that Americans have some comfort and familiarity with Thompson, he tells Michele Norris.

The National Football League evicts Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons' star quarterback, from training camp. He appears in court this week for allegedly masterminding a dog-fighting operation. Vick's team was going to suspend him for four games, but the NFL urged it to wait until it completes an investigation.

New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is meeting with President Bush en route to a stop at the United Nations. His first month in office has seen terrorist attacks, widespread flooding and change on the global political scene.

The former Panamanian dictator was convicted of U.S. drug trafficking charges in 1992 in Miami, but he's due to be released in September and faces money-laundering charges in France. The court appearance was his first public appearance in more than a decade.