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A routine financial inquiry led to the discovery of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's involvement in a high-priced prostitution ring. How do banks scrutinize the transactions of their customers, particularly "PEPs" — politically exposed people?

In one of the worst incidents since the start of the conflict in Iraq, at least 175 people were killed Tuesday when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town in northern Iraq. Kahtaniya, near Mosul, is home to an ancient minority sect. At least 200 others were injured.

A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is expected to seek an arrest warrant Monday charging Sudan's president with orchestrating violence in the western region of Darfur. Tens of thousands of people are estimated to have died in the violence since 2003.

WNYC reporter Cyndi Rodriguez talks about the latest on the US Airways plane has crashed into the Hudson River. More than 100 people were on board flight 1549 that had taken off from LaGuardia Airport on its way to Charlotte, N.C.

Some doctors and safety experts are increasingly concerned about pedestrians who use phones and other electronic devices. They say deaths and injuries are becoming more common because people are distracted while talking on the phone, texting or listening to music through headphones.

Fifteen candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's Saturday presidential election say they will boycott the results of the vote. They candidates say there are problems with ink meant to prevent people from voting more than once. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Sri Lanka moves into the complex phase of reconstruction and resettlement, with about half of the 800,000 people displaced by the tsunami leaving shelters. The country lost more than 38,000 in the disaster.

More than 20 people are killed in Iraq in two separate double bombings. A vehicle packed with explosives drove into a crowd in a popular Baghdad ice cream shop, followed shortly by a second car bomb. Another, similar pair of explosions struck in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.

A new wave of more than a dozen insurgent bombings in Iraq's capital leaves at least 29 people dead, including three U.S. soldiers. The attacks came just one day after a new government was unveiled.

Pakistani jets bomb a suspected terrorist training camp along its border with Afghanistan, a region that U.S. officials consider a hiding place for militants with ties to al Qaeda. Pakistani officials say as many as 50 people were killed in the raid. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves.