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President Bush is hoping that a meeting with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan could ease tensions along Iraq's northern border, where tens of thousands of Turkish troops were poised to move against Kurdish rebels.

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif says the U.S. must "put its foot down" with President Pervez Musharraf if it is sincere in its support of democracy in Pakistan. He calls the U.S. response so far to Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule "lukewarm" and "disturbing."

Before the Senate can vote to confirm Michael Mukasey, he needs a Democrat to join the GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee. But Democrats are concerned about his answers on waterboarding, enforcement of subpoenas and the president's powers.

The Hollywood writers' strike is affecting a number of regular columnists at Day to Day. We hear from them.

The U.S. is reviewing its aid to Pakistan, about $10 billion in overt funding since 2001. Yet the Bush administration may push for continuing military aid for the Pakistani army's counterinsurgency operations, says analyst Steve Coll of the New America Foundation.

Tim Borland ran 63 marathons in as many days to call attention to ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), a rare degenerative children's disease. His quest began in California on Labor Day, took him to 26 states, and ended at the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the U.S. will review its aid to Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the nation's constitution on Saturday. Guests discuss the crisis in Pakistan, and what is at stake if aid is cut off.

Michael Mukasey is now all but sure of winning Senate confirmation as attorney general. But Mukasey's nomination was almost derailed by his refusal to say whether he views the interrogation practice known as "waterboarding" as torture. The episode is only the latest in waterboarding's long history of controversy.

On Showtime's Dexter, Michael C. Hall plays a Miami forensics detective who spends his days examining blood splatter, and his nights killing people who "deserve to die." Hall discusses the challenges of playing the ultimate good/bad guy — the role of the likable serial killer.

On Tuesday, the National Academy of Sciences published a new analysis of the African origins of the AIDS virus. The study shows the virus was present in the United States almost a decade earlier than previously thought.

More than 100 Buddhist monks march in northern Myanmar, the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters.

French charity workers planned a flight for more than 100 African children who were heading to foster care in Europe. The children were supposedly orphans from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, but United Nations officials found the vast majority are not orphans, and aren't from Darfur.

As tensions escalate on the Turkish-Iraq border, Iraqi Kurds express their sentiment that Turkey's real enemy is not the PKK but an autonomous Kurdish region.

Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, ends an eight-year exile to return to Pakistan. Supporters welcomed her in Karachi. She has been negotiating a possible power sharing deal with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized leadership in a bloodless coup in 1999.

By New Jersey U.S. Attorney Chris Christie's count, he has prosecuted 126 Garden State officials on corruption charges in his six years on the job. Most officials Christie has prosecuted have been Democrats, and some charge him of "political profiling."

Michael Mukasey spent nearly 20 years judging cases from the bench in New York. Now it's his turn to be judged. The Senate Judiciary Committee opens a confirmation hearing on Mukasey's nomination to be the next attorney general.

In the second day of his confirmation hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey on Thursday refused to say that waterboarding is torture. He declined to say that he rejects waterboarding, saying only that if it is torture, it can't be used.

In the book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the relationship between music and the mind. Through a series of clinical case studies, Sacks examines the role of music in our lives.

President Bush tried to devote his news conference at the White House on Wednesday to domestic issues, but he soon found that reporters had foreign-policy questions on their minds — many focusing on Iraq or Iran.

Retired judge Michael Mukasey, the nominee for attorney general, returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a second round of questioning. He says torture is illegal, but did not specify what techniques constitute torture or what methods would be banned.

Confirmation hearings are taking place on Capitol Hill for the next attorney general. Former federal Judge Michael Mukasey was nominated by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales.

School board members in Portland, Maine, approved a city plan last night to make prescription birth control available to students at one if its middle schools. Portland School Committee member Lori Gramlich who voted for the measure, talks about the program.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, a senior adviser to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, blames scant security by the Pakistani government for the bombing attack hours after Bhutto's return to Pakistan after eight years in exile.

There's no end in sight to the political upheavals in Pakistan. On Friday, the supreme court ruled that Saturday's presidential election in parliament and the provincial assemblies can go ahead, but the results will be withheld until the court rules later this month on Pervez Musharraf's eligibility.

Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, briefed the U.N. Security Council Friday on his visits with Myanmar leader Senior General Than Shwe, and with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.