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The Asian tsunami that struck one year ago left nearly 170,000 people dead or missing in the Indonesian province of Aceh alone. Hundreds of thousands more lost their homes and the rebuilding process has not been as swift as they had hoped.

The tsunami cost tens of thousands of people in Thailand their jobs and their homes. Some 8,000 people died. A special multimedia presentation explores life in Phuket, one year later.

A new set of documents from Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito contains his argument that executive-branch officials have immunity when ordering domestic wiretaps in violation of the law. Other documents from his years at the Justice Department reveal a restrictive position on racial discrimination.

NASA engineers are trying to decide whether a fourth space walk is needed to make the Shuttle Discovery safe for its return to earth on Monday. Officials say there is some concern about a torn thermal blanket below one of the cockpit windows.

Brea Evans left behind a life in a lab to work as an observer aboard the Alaska Warrior, monitoring what kinds of fish are being caught.

Political cartoonists Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News discuss 2005, as seen through the prism of their own work.

Transit union leaders vote Thursday to end a three-day strike after state mediators worked out a deal to bring them back to the bargaining table. Union members will work without a new contract, and subway and bus services will resume as early as Thursday night.

Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia has asked public schools in his state to close Monday and Tuesday to conserve fuel. Some parents aren't happy.

Hurricane Katrina ruined an estimated two-thirds of Louisiana's oyster harvest. Losses over the next few years could approach $1 billion. Mike Voisin, CEO of Motivatit Seafoods in Houma, La., says Rita may further disrupt output.

In comments during a visit to Iraq Friday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has says there will be a reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq. The reduction affects two Army brigades that had been scheduled to be deployed in Iraq in the coming weeks -- one from Germany, the other from Ft. Riley, Kansas.