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President Bush will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the White House on Friday. The meeting comes amid declining support in U.S. polls for the war and growing calls in Congress for a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Israel launches helicopter missile strikes against vehicles suspected of transporting members of Hamas. The strikes occurred in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip and killed at least four people.

Insurgents attack Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison with rockets and bombs, wounding more than 40 U.S. soldiers. Also in Iraq, the National Assembly met Sunday in the heavily fortified Green Zone to choose a Sunni Muslim as speaker after much delay and criticism.

Television and radio station owners discuss self-policing measures to head off more regulation from the government. Increasing political pressure to reduce indecency on the airwaves is a major topic at this week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

The Space Shuttle Discovery landed flawlessly early Tuesday at Edwards Air Force base in California. Bad weather forced NASA to divert the shuttle from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins says the mission showed again "how important spaceflight is."

President Bush appears in Ohio on Day 44 of his 60-day Social Security policy campaign. Other administration officials are also touring to address the issue: Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt held a session Wednesday in Chicago.

Pentagon officials say a new Army manual on interrogation techniques will prohibit the kind of abuse revealed last year at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The Pentagon also has published interim guidance on the issue for all branches of the service.

Music and film industry groups announce another round of lawsuits filed against computer users suspected of trading music and movies online without permission. Their latest targets are users of a technology called i2hub on the service Internet2, which primarily connects college campuses.

Plans for the Senate Foreign Relations committee to vote on the embattled nomination of John Bolton for ambassador to the United Nations fell apart Tuesday. Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio broke ranks with his party, asking for more time to probe allegations of misdeeds by Bolton.

Foreign ministers and officials from the World Bank and IMF fail to reach an agreement on debt relief. But outgoing World Bank President James Wolfensohn is hopeful that ministers laid the groundwork for a future breakthrough during a series of meetings in Washington this weekend.