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U.S. offers plan to end N. Korea crisis
The United States presented a plan to end the North Korea crisis Wednesday, pledging to consider incentives while offering Pyongyang three months to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program. • FULL STORY

• NBC: U.S. considers troop increase in Iraq

• U.S. officials questioned interrogations

• Roadside blast kills 3 in Baghdad

• Conflicting reports over British sailors in Iran

MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Russia: Chechen attack killed 92

• Jordan upholds guilty verdict on terror plotters

• Clinton’s ‘My Life’ hits London's shops

• Head to Morocco for an exotic, affordable holiday

• Afghan commander retracts beheading claim

• NBC: Farmers count cost of Cuba's drought

• Iraq conflict section front

• Michael Moran’s Brave New World

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

• HEAD TO MOROCCO FOR AN EXOTIC, AFFORDABLE HOLIDAY
While few can afford to live it up with seafood dinners and horse-drawn carriage rides in Europe’s historic cities, the good life awaits the adventurous just across the Mediterranean in Morocco. MSNBC.com's Jennifer Carlile reports.

• Conflicting reports over British sailors in Iran

AFRICA

• WASHPOST: POLIO ON THE RISE IN AFRICA
The 16-year effort to eradicate polio from the globe is threatening to unravel in Africa, with the report yesterday that a 10th country -- Sudan -- now harbors the disease after being free of it for three years.

AMERICAS

• NBC: FARMERS COUNT COST OF CUBA'S DROUGHT
According to local farmers, the Holguin region of Cuba boasted land so fertile and cattle so abundant that it was enough to make a man rich and a nation fat. But now the region has been devasted by drought as NBC's Mary Murray reports.

• NBC: Cubans battle worst drought• Tijuana newspaper editor shot to death

EUROPE

• CLINTON’S ‘MY LIFE’ HITS LONDON'S SHOPS
While tens of thousands have descended on U.S. bookstores to buy Bill Clinton’s new autobiography, “My Life,” the former president’s account has also been edging its way off Britain's shelves.

• Russia: Chechen attack killed 92

ASIA PACIFIC

• U.S. OFFERS PLAN TO END N. KOREA CRISIS
The United States presented a plan to end the North Korea crisis Wednesday, pledging to consider incentives while offering Pyongyang three months to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons program.

• S. Korean hostage in Iraq executed• S. Koreans shocked, angry over beheading

SOUTH & CENTRAL ASIA

• AFGHAN COMMANDER RETRACTS BEHEADING CLAIM
A senior Afghan militia commander said Wednesday that troops from Afghanistan’s U.S.-trained national army beheaded four Taliban fighters to avenge the similar slaying of an Afghan soldier and a military interpreter. He later retracted his statement after a strong government denial.

SPECIAL REPORT

NEWSWEEK WORLD NEWS

• POLITICS: AGENT PROVOCATEUR
Behind Michael Moore's new Bush-bashing bonanza

• The Fear Factor• Business: Joburg's New Vibe

INTERACTIVES

• Iraq oil facts
• U.S. casualties
• U.S. occupations
• Intelligence on Iraq
• Afghan tumult
• Korean buildup
• Mideast primer
• Suicide bombings

SPECIAL REPORT

• U.S. OFFICIALS QUESTIONED INTERROGATIONS
The Bush administration did not ease its interrogating tactics until after State Department and military officials raised concerns that the tactics could violate the law, White House memos show.

• NBC: Clerics apologize for Abu Ghraib

SPECIAL REPORT

MICHAEL MORAN

• AIR FORCE HAS LONG-DELAYED RECKONING
After years of dodging the bullet, the Air Force on Wednesday had its day of reckoning for its own performance on Sept. 11, 2001. Brave New World.

• Reagan, the world, a soft-focus lens• France and D-Day

NBC FROM ABROAD

•	Ron Allen: Helping Afghan women
•	Jim Maceda: Small village honors veterans
•	Preston Mendenhall: Tight security for D-Day
•	Tom Brokaw: D-Day, metaphor for America
•	Chip Reid: Ernie Pyle, original embed
•	David Gregory: Bush seeks to mend fences
•	Preston Mendenhall: Uncommon WW2 hero
•	Eric Baculinao: China goes car crazy
•	Ron Allen: Opium fuels Afghan terror

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