Under siege
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, trapped in his Ramallah compound, tries to carry on as usual.

2001 rebate baffling taxpayers
Both people who got a check and those who didn't are making mistakes on their forms, the IRS says, calling it the most common error this year.

U.S., Libya inch toward better ties
WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials have had positive discussions with Libya, but the country hasn't agreed to take the steps that would prompt the administration to remove it from the list of states that support terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday.

'American al-Qaida' back on U.S. soil
WASHINGTON -- John Walker, whose spiritual quest, prosecutors say, led him to fight against his fellow Americans in Afghanistan, returned Wednesday to the United States and is scheduled to appear in court today in Virginia.

These movie critics are for real
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The images projected onto a wall were blurred and the sound wobbly, but there was no mistaking it was a bootleg version of the film Black Hawk Down -- especially when the young Somali men in the audience jumped up and cheered after an American helicopter was hit by Somali gunmen and crashed.

FBI director checks on his agents far away from home
WASHINGTON -- FBI director Robert Mueller made an unexpected visit to Afghanistan Wednesday to meet with agents conducting interrogations of al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners.

Enron's chief says he's leaving
Two congressional hearings start today. At one, an ex-Andersen auditor's attorney says his client plans to plead the Fifth.