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Officials plan services for Pope John Paul II, who died Saturday. The public will be able view the pontiff's body for the first time Monday. Rome and Vatican City expect more than 2 million mourners. The pope's funeral is set for Friday morning and his body is to be interred in the grotto at St. Peter's Basilica.

Iraqi television broadcasts footage of what it claims is President Saddam Hussein visiting residential areas of Baghdad on Friday. If the video is authentic, it would be Saddam's first public appearance in two years. Meanwhile, Iraqi ministers continue to report the battle is going according to Iraqi plans. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

U.S. Marines close in on Baghdad from the southeast, as the Iraqi army continues to take large losses and thousands more soldiers surrender. U.S. troops see no signs of major resistance, but sporadic fighting by Iraqi paramilitary forces continues to erupt outside the city. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Also: The White House cuts funding for a U.N. family planning program; a digging machine makes progress in Seattle; and Coca Cola puts shareholder Warren Buffet's face on some cans in China.

The CH-53E Super Stallion crashed Tuesday afternoon near El Centro, about 100 miles east of San Diego.

Also: Flash flooding in Pakistan kills dozens; investigators don't know why an Amtrak train hit a piece of equipment on the track yesterday; and Native American historian Joe Medicine Crow dies.

The Death Cab For Cutie frontman performs a new song and pays tribute to Fountains of Wayne songwriter Adam Schlesinger in this quarantine concert.

If you have been on Social Security Disability Insurance and have either returned to the workforce or are contemplating such a move, we'd like to hear from you.

In this final round, every answer will contain the letters C-A-N, in that order, somewhere in the answer. As in, "Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

Random numbers are essential for secure cyber communications. But making truly random numbers is harder than it seems. Now scientists have devised a way to make the most random random numbers ever.