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The deadliest Hezbollah rocket attack since fighting began on July 12 left ten Israelis dead Sunday morning. The victims, soldiers from a reserve unit, were hit on the parking lot of a communal farm in northeastern Israel. Israel today also continued ground and air attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 17 people.

In an address to the House Republican Conference on Thursday, President Bush urged GOP lawmakers to approve his proposed detainee interrogation policies, saying the new guidelines will help his administration fight terrorism.

A pair of 21-year-old twin Brazilian violinists are working their way out of poverty by playing classical music. Wagner and Walter Caldas grew up in a poor neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro. The brothers make their American debut this week, performing with their orchestra for the Brazil Foundation in New York City.

President Bush faced an unexpected rebellion from some of his fellow Republicans in the Senate on Thursday. Members of the Armed Services committee passed a bill creating military courts for suspected terrorists, in a move that is significantly different from the legislation the Bush administration proposed.

Four Republican senators are at odds with the White House over proposed legislation on terrorism suspects. The White House does not like a version of the bill passed by the GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration's goal of signing a measure into law before mid-term elections now seems in doubt.

Liberal Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee defeats a challenge from conservative Steve Laffey in the Republican primary in a closely watched Senate races. In New York, Sen. Hillary Clinton trounces antiwar rival Jonathan Tasini, who unsuccessfully tried to replicate the David v. Goliath scenario in Connecticut.

A new documentary, The Heart of the Game follows an unconventional girls' high school basketball coach in Washington state and tracks the conflicts that arise over the fate of a star player.

Scott Simon with some thoughts on overlooked crime stories from around the globe.

Mike Leavitt, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has received substantial tax breaks thanks to a charitable foundation he and other family members created in 2000. But in its first years of operation, the foundation did little charitable giving. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports that it's all within the law -- but some question the law's fairness.

Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr reviews the week's news with Scott Simon. This week was dominated by fighting in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

At 26, Liang Wang is new on the job as principal oboe with the New York Philharmonic. He makes his own reeds, spending hours each day hand-crafting the essential equipment with incredible precision.

Over the past three years, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had emerged as the most feared figure in Iraq. The man reported killed in an air raid Wednesday was the suspected mastermind behind many of the kidnappings, beheadings and bombings that followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.