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A freighter carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of fuel runs aground off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutian chain. A search continues for six crewmembers missing in the frigid Bering Sea. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans officially welcomes back its first residents. The Algiers area is the first to open. But some officials think it's too soon because of contaminated water and lack of utilities, among other problems.

Israeli soldiers storm two synagogues occupied by protesters as Israel continues with its pullout of settlers from Gaza. Overall, Israeli authorities say, the withdrawal is proceeding ahead of schedule.

A military convoy rolls through flooded streets to bring food, supplies, and the National Guard to New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast. But conditions remain desperate in many parts of the city.

Monday, 115 cardinals of the Catholic Church will withdraw into a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. The session, the first in 27 years, will be a blend of Old-World pageantry and state-of-the-art technology.

Senate Democrats close ranks to delay a vote on John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Democrats say they will allow Bolton to face a vote, but only if the Bush administration provides access to classified documents.

Two weeks after the death of Pope John Paul II, the process of electing a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church formally begins. The public was invited to Monday morning's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. But the actual conclave, meeting in the Sistine Chapel, is shrouded in secrecy.

Airline officials in Greece say passengers on a Cypriot jetliner may already have been dead when their plane crashed into a mountainside Sunday. The crash killed all 121 people on board, which makes it the worst airline disaster in Greek history.

In Baghdad, gunmen attack senior diplomats from Pakistan and Bahrain. Bahrain's top envoy in Bahgdad was slightly wounded -- while the head of the Pakistani mission escaped injury.

Acting Director David Paulison tells the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will review no-bid contracts awarded after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The contracts are worth millions of dollars.