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Here are five key changes that the Obama administration is proposing in an overhaul of the No Child Left Behind Act.  
     
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Six former FARC hostages â each held for years by the leftist rebel group â are running for Congress in Sunday's Colombia vote. Voters are choosing 102 senators and 166 representatives in the legislative elections.  
 
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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to calm the nation after a series of US officials have called last week's announcement to allow Israelis to build 1,600 homes in East Jerusalem an 'insult' to the US.  
 
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Gunmen in the violence-plagued border city of Cuidad Juarez killed two Americans and one Mexican with ties to the US consulate on Saturday. Authorities are still trying to assess the motive for the Mexico killings.  
 
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An Afghanistan Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated Kandahar attacks Saturday, saying they were a warning to NATO, which will soon focus on securing Kandahar City and its approaches.  
 
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Tens of thousands of red-shirted Thailand protesters filled main avenues in Bangkok Sunday as they called for the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.  
 
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'The Pacific,' HBO's 10-part, $195 million miniseries debuts tonight.  
 
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For House Democrats to win passage of healthcare reform, 216 lawmakers must vote 'yea.' The vote could come as early as this week.  
 
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Hannah Rockleinâs saga â an international adoption 11 years later  
 
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International adoption has fallen sharply under tougher scrutiny caused by issues like Haiti's post-quake orphan scandal as well as stricter global regulations.  
 
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Haiti has shut down international adoptions because of suspicions of child trafficking in the post-quake chaos.  
 
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Tens of thousands of Thailand protesters flooded the streets of Bangkok on Sunday wearing red shirts to support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.  
 
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The story of a Chinese-American "bridge" club.  
 
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Market reforms and a high-tech push have boosted business in Israel, reducing the role of government.  
 
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Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn resigned Saturday, two days after admitting to a nude hot-tubbing incident with a minor 25 years ago.  
 
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he wasn't bothered by Obama's decision to delay his trip by a few days.  
 
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President Obamaâs boost to the Medicare tax â a key part of funding healthcare reform â would tax the rich almost exclusively.  
 
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Net national savings fell to -3.9 percent of national income, the lowest since the Depression. Usually the rate rises during a recovery.  
 
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Daylight Saving Time is upon us. Turns out, not every place in the world goes for this one-hour loss in a good night's sleep. Hint: Pasty northerners like it.  
 
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The coffee party movement held its political kickoff Saturday at 370 locations across the US. At one Georgia meeting, the message didn't seem that different from the rival 'tea party' message.  
 
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No corned beef and cabbage? Irish chef Darren Pettigrew says "you don't eat corned beef in Ireland." Pettigrew discusses what he likes to create.  
 
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Two former NASA astronauts criticized the recent decision to cancel NASA's moon landing program known as the Constellation program.  
 
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Turn your clocks forward Sunday morning. But Daylight Saving Time will cost you, according to one study.  
 
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Reports said 11 Siberian tigers starved to death having been fed nothing but chicken bones at a Chinese zoo.  
 
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'The Pacific,' a 10-part HBO drama that launches Sunday, spins the tales of those who fought on the Pacific front in World War II. Creators Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg suggest that the type of warfare waged on those little-known islands may give viewers a jolt of familiarity.  
 
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President Obama will send a framework for K-12 education reform to Congress on Monday, citing concern about students' lagging performance relative to that in some other industrialized nations.  
 
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The 'tea party' movement coalesces around fiscal responsibility and limited federal government, not bans on abortion or gay marriage. It's an agenda that some say will attract more people to the Republican Party, though it may leave social conservatives wandering in the wilderness.  
 
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A look at the Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Senate health bill costs.  
 
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A long overdue biography of one of the greatest baseball players of all time.  
 
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Across the globe, citizens are making their anger with their governments felt.  
 
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America is slipping from the top spots on more than one global list.  
 
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GOP senators who have been willing to work openly with Democrats say that the process for healthcare reform could end the prospects for bipartisanship elsewhere. Possibly at stake in the Senate: comprehensive immigration reform and financial regulation.  
 
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At Seoul Grand Park this week, engineers showed off Korea's OLEV concept vehicle that runs on power conveyed by magnets from underground lines. Many observers see 'potential,' but it's not an easy sell.  
 
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A psychological thriller set in South Korea, âMotherâ is unpredictable at every turn.  
 
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Teen idol Robert Pattinson stars in âRemember Meâ as a wealthy New York student trying to find himself.  
 
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âHarlanâ explores a German filmmakerâs Nazi-era propaganda movie and its effect on the extended family down the years.  
 
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Set in US-occupied Baghdad, âGreen Zoneâ confronts the WMD fiasco with Matt Damon playing an Army office tracking down the truth.  
 
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