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President Bush's nuclear agreement with India must first be approved by Congress, and lawmakers are uneasy about India's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

The new film The Hills Have Eyes is a remake of the 1977 Wes Craven horror classic. The new version was directed by French filmmaker Alexandre Aja.

Last year no fewer than eight bands from Monterrey, Mexico, were invited to play at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Some have called Monterrey the Seattle of Latin Alternative music, in reference to Seattle's role in the early 1990s as the incubator of grunge rock.

You notice some everyday phenomenon and search for the word that defines it — only to realize no such word exists. With the help of Atlantic readers, word maven Barbara Wallraff fills in the blanks in a new book.

The rhetoric has been escalating in Washington as the U.N. Security Council considers how to push Iran to abandon a suspected nuclear weapons program. The United States wants to isolate Iran and its leaders, but other nations are far more cautious, given the Bush administration's record in Iraq.

Willie Nile has earned a great deal of respect in the music business, but never became what you would call a star. It doesn't seem to matter to him. His latest CD pays homage to a nurturing influence. It's called The Streets of New York.

The United Nations commission investigating the killing of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, asks to interview Syria's president and foreign minister. The U.N. commission would also like to talk to a former Syrian vice-president.

Growing reports of police abuse prompt Iraq's Interior Ministry to set up a new unit to investigate charges of murder and other abuse by security forces. The United States is shifting resources to deal with the emerging internal crisis.

The somber portrait known to most of us as "Whistler's Mother" is out of the latest edition of Janson's History of Art. A more colorful painting by James McNeill Whistler -- of a younger subject -- has been substituted.

Car bombings and mortar attacks kill dozens in a poor Shiite slum in Baghdad. Meanwhile, some of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants take the stand for the first time, and Iraqi political leaders announce plans to open parliament for the first time March 16.

Rescue workers have drilled a hole into a West Virginia mine where 13 miners have been trapped for more than 24 hours. A camera-equipped robot was sent to search for signs of life. Officials say results of air-quality tests are discouraging. Emily Corio of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports.

For years, singer Carol Noonan avoided the classic Irish folk song "Danny Boy." She rediscovered the powerful and sad spell it casts when she sang it at her father's funeral.