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Iraq's prime minister says he's losing patience with what he called American "excuses" for killing Iraqi civilians. Nouri al-Maliki told the Reuters news agency that he plans to launch an Iraqi investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians in the western Iraqi town of Haditha last fall.

Police in Phoenix release new information about two serial killers blamed for at least 11 murders since last year. A total of at least 41 people are believed to have been attacked by the "Baseline Killer" and the "Serial Shooter," who operate separately.

After more than a century of focusing predominantly across the Atlantic, the Pentagon is shifting its strategy for the future. Military experts are building up U.S. forces in the Pacific again, as future conflicts may arise over Taiwan or North Korea.

The first photographs of Fidel Castro since news of his illness appeared over the weekend. Sunday was Castro's 80th birthday, and he cautioned Cubans in a letter that he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for "adverse news."

U.S. authorities have declared a red alert --the highest alert level -- for air traffic between the United States and Great Britain. The alert level is orange for the rest of U.S. aviation. All U.S. air travelers are banned from carrying liquids and gels on board. The prohibitions will be in place until screening processes can be reassessed.

North Korea appears to have completed preparations for a test launch of a three-stage missile, as U.S. officials say the rocket is now completely fueled. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said any such launch by North Korea would be regarded as "a provocative act."

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says during a visit to the Ukraine that U.N. rules against torture apply to U.S. personnel worldwide. U.S. policy previously interpreted the international convention as only applying to activities in U.S. territory.

The owners of a nursing home in which patients died after they were not evacuated during Hurricane Katrina are facing negligent-homicide charges. Aid workers found 34 bodies in St. Rita's, the St. Bernard Parish facility. Robert Siegel talks with Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti.

Two witnesses from the Shiite town of Dujail testify in Baghdad in the trial of Saddam Hussein. Saddam, whose testy outbursts punctuated the proceedings, and his co-defendents are charged with the murder of nearly 150 people from Dujail after a failed attempt to assassinate the Iraqi leader in 1982.

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is working to clarify what the U.S. does, and does not do, with its prisoners. In Europe Wednesday, she said U.N. rules against torture apply to Americans even if they are outside the United States. Rice spoke amid allegations about secret U.S. prisons -- and the grabbing of suspects abroad.