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Efforts are under way to establish a tsunami early-warning system in the Indian Ocean, one year after the devastating tsunami. Financial and technological help have been flowing into the project from around the world.

Commentator Susan Orlean visits a craft store near Boston to talk to crafters about why they do what they do. She encounters the store's craft guru, whose job it is to teach crafting, and to counsel those crafters who are stuck.

Search and rescue workers in hard-hit Beaumont, Texas, find major property damage, but report no deaths and few injuries. They're continuing to take stock of townspeople who stayed for the storm. Most of the city was evacuated.

Residents in Port Arthur, Texas, are thankful there was not more destruction in their town, which took a heavy blow from Hurricane Rita. With an intact seawall assuring that a catastrophe would be avoided, there was still considerable damage in the town.

Kenya's president reshuffles his Cabinet, angering members of his ruling coalition and plunging the East African economic power into a political crisis. Some want to move up elections scheduled for 2007.

AIDS activists are charging that groups promoting abstinence are undermining condom distribution in U.S.-funded programs overseas. They blame a stronger emphasis on abstinence in President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, while the administration says there's been no shift in its focus.

In Pakistan, authorities are looking for a missing reporter. Hayatullah Khan was kidnapped on Monday by militants after reporting the death of a top al Qaeda commander.

The Turnaway Study followed nearly 1,000 women who sought abortions, interviewing them regularly for years to understand the impact on their mental and financial wellbeing.

At the heart of country musician Jon Randall's new CD, Walking Among the Living, there's a bit of family history. The singer-songwriter's "North Carolina Moon" is an update of a tune that his father began to write when Randall was still in high school.

How do you know when you're instant messaging with a computer worm instead of one of your "buddies?" Security experts say it's getting harder to tell the difference. A malicious new computer worm initiates a chat with its victims and invites them to click on a link -- which allows it to spread to their IM buddies.