Speakers discuss the economic impact of the recent tsunami and earthquake on Japan.

Yemen is complicated enough that talk will not solve the problems there.

Germany's top-selling newspaper quoted French President Nicolas Sarkozy's father as saying that the first lady is having a baby. And one of her predecessors says a child at the presidential palace will be wonderful for the whole country. (May 17)

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under a suicide watch in jail while the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape said through her lawyer that she had no idea who he was when she reported him to the police. (May 17)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is on a historic trip as the first British monarch to set foot in an independent Ireland. But, as Mark Phillips reports, the violent history between the two countries was not forgotten.

Wildfires that blazed through a northern Canadian town forced the evacuation of nearly 7,000 people. The mayor of Slave Lake nearly one-third of the buildings were destroyed after strong winds suddenly turned the flames on the town. (May 17)

South Africa is going to the polls for municipal elections that are being seen as a litmus test for the ruling ANC party.

A discussion of the internal politics of Al Qaeda and a new undetectable weapon.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the dire conditions in Syria.

A mideast expert says that the U.S. should do more.

Eugene Robinson’s new column says that Strauss-Kahn's arrest has seemingly led to "the extinction of his political career."

Military expert Seth Jones on the Taliban's future in Afghanistan.

The French Socialist Party is facing an uncertain time following the arrest of Dominic Strauss-Kahn for the alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid in New York.