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Hundreds of Islamic students are in a deadly standoff with security forces in Pakistan. The students are holed up in the Red Mosque in the capital city of Islamabad.

As the new year gets under way, we take a quick temperature check on some key areas to see what the prognosis might be. The topics: politics — domestic and global — and economics.

A much-debated U.S. intelligence report states that Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists, and that the war there has bred a deep resentment of the United States. The White House made declassified the report's conclusion Tuesday.

Aid groups and donor countries are mobilizing to get assistance to the survivors of a devastating cyclone in Myanmar. The United Nations says hundreds of thousand people are in need of help. Getting visas and travel permission from the government of Myanmar is still a problem. The U.S. is among those trying to get in.

Monks in Myanmar — the nation also known as Burma — have been holding demonstrations seeking the release of political prisoners held by the nation's military regime.

Earlier this week, the people of Pakistan elected a new parliament, with the majority of the seats going to the party of the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Economist Zehra Aftab and Professor Ali Cheema discuss the significance of the power shift.

A deposition from baseball player Andy Pettitte read Wednesday on Capitol Hill contradicts Clemens' denial that he used performance-enhancing drugs. His trainer's testimony also provoked skepticism.

Even after the Iraqi government called for Shiite militias to lay down their weapons, little has changed. The Middle East Project Director for the International Crisis Group discusses the struggle for control.

More than 400 children are in state custody following a raid on a polygamist sect. We examine how the state is coping with the strain on the system.

A House committee votes to condemn the killing of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide. But the government of Turkey opposes the resolution — as does the Bush administration, which warns that relations with a key ally could be damaged.