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Tonight is Dan Rather's last evening in The CBS Evening News anchor chair after 24 years on the broadcast. Ken Auletta, a reporter for The New Yorker magazine, followed Rather as he prepared for his final newscast. He discusses Rather's legacy.

In Iraq, the bodies of at least 41 people -- some headless -- have been found at two separate sites. Meanwhile, a massive truck bomb exploded in the center of Baghdad, killing three people including the bomber.

The presidents of Syria and Lebanon announce Syria will pull back its forces in Lebanon to the eastern Bekaa Valley by the end of this month. But critics have faulted the plan for not providing a timetable for complete and immediate withdrawal.

Opposition groups in Kyrgyzstan reach a political compromise as they struggle to restore order after the ouster of the government last week. Opposition leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev is named interim prime minister, but he says he will recognize the parliament chosen by recent elections -- which protesters charge were unfair.

Thirty years after flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy, on one of the last helicopters out, NPR's Loren Jenkins recalls the last day of the Vietnam War from downtown Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.

Two bomb attacks on Shiite mosques in Baghdad kill at least 15 Iraqis and wound more than 24. The attacks come one day before the holiest day in the Shiite religious calendar, Ashoura.

When another earthquake shook Indonesia Monday, the United Nations, Red Cross and other humanitarian groups quickly responded. U.N. emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland discusses how he directs the flow of billions of dollars of aid money into the disaster-struck region.

Syria now says it will have all its forces out of Lebanon by the end of April, ending three decades of military involvement. It also says it will allow the United Nations to verify the pullout.

Voting in Zimbabwe begins amid fears of fraud. President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu party is expected to dominate the parliamentary elections. Zimbabwe has sunk into international isolation and a deep economic crisis under the Zanu and Mugabe's leadership.

The presiding judge in the case of a brain-damaged woman in Florida rules that the feeding tube keeping Terri Schiavo alive can be removed, despite efforts by congressional Republicans to delay the removal.