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A gunman murders a pro-rebel member of the Sri Lankan parliament in a church during midnight Mass. The attack is the latest in a string of incidents that has heightened tensions between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, and threatens to revive a civil war.

This year's Habitat for Humanity-Jimmy Carter Work Project is in Benton Harbor, Mich. Racial rioting broke out there almost two years ago, and inadequate housing was blamed for a lot of the anger. During just one week volunteers plan to build 225 houses.

If faced with a bird flu pandemic, the Bush administration would divert the nation's limited supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to medical personnel, says Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt.

One year ago, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean created a devastating tsunami. In the fishing village of Ondachchimadam, 74 lives were lost, along with hundreds of homes. Life goes on in the village, but the economic and emotional impact is still keenly felt.

Balkan Beat Box fuses clarinets and horns with hypynotic trance music and a techno beat. The band's Israeli-born founders Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat tell Jacki Lyden about their first-ever CD.

A draft flu-pandemic response plan from the federal government says a worst-case scenario could kill as many as 2 million people in the United States. The draft Bush administration plan is an update to the $7.1 billion in pandemic preparations that it proposed last fall. The plan outlines exactly which government agency is responsible for about 300 tasks.

The daughter of a Tamil revolutionary, Sri Lankan M.I.A. is now a rap sensation in England. The 28-year-old is known as much for her music as her life story. She combines the rhythms of global cultures with lyrics that some say incite revolution. Critic Oliver Wang reviews her CD Arular.

President Bush has called for more than $7 billion to find and guard against any dangerous new strain of influenza. The lawmakers who would have to approve that request generally welcomed the initiative, but some have criticized elements of the plan.

Firewater experiments with both sounds and ideas, using an impressive array of instruments to complement socially and politically charged lyrics. In a World Cafe session with David Dye, hear Firewater play songs from its new album, The Golden Hour.

A debut at the Metropolitan Opera is an opera singer's dream. It's about to become a reality for tenor Lawrence Brownlee.