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Cyclist Floyd Landis faces hard questions about his personal character during cross examination at his doping hearing in Malibu, Calif. The Tour de France winner is defending himself against charges of using illegal synthetic steroids.

Iran has charged a detained Iranian-American academic with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment. Haleh Esfandiari, 67, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been held since early May.

The man British authorities charged with poisoning former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko has responded with his own accusations. Andrei Lugovoi, another former KGB officer, says Litvinenko was a British agent trying to get compromising materials about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Against the advice of infectious disease experts, a patient with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis was able to deliberately evade a worldwide no-fly order and travel freely by commercial jet last week around the globe.

The United States ambassador to Baghdad and his Iranian counterpart met for four hours Monday in what the American side called a business-like atmosphere. The talks focused on one subject only: Iraq.

The program is capped at $100 million a year for four years, estimated to build about 3,500 total affordable apartments.

President Bush is urging 15 major nations to agree on a global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plan isn't playing well with critics, including some leaders with whom the president will meet at upcoming G-8 economic talks.

A task force assembled by the Ohio Supreme Court will look at how court-mandated programs can assist people leaving prison – in hopes of keeping them from reoffending.

Members of the Bancroft family, who hold a controlling interest in Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, agree to consider media mogul Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for the financial news publisher.

The White House on Thursday rolled out new sanctions against Iran, designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism.