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One of the medical workers released in Bulgaria on Tuesday after eight years in a Libyan prison said she had tried to kill herself after being tortured with electrical shocks. She spoke at a news conference in the Sofia, Bulgaria. Other members of the group were too ill to attend.

Satellite mapping has uncovered in Darfur a buried lakebed the size of Massachusetts. Scientists think its water may have seeped into a reservoir underneath it. If that's the case, it could help ease fighting in one of the driest places on Earth.

Diplomats from the United States and Iran met in Baghdad Tuesday to discuss security in Iraq. U.S. envoy Ryan Crocker says Iran has agreed to a tri-lateral committee dedicated to improving Iraq security.

Intense rainfall in England has caused rivers to burst banks and streets to become like rivers. More than a month's worth of rain doused England and Wales in just hours Friday, forcing evacuation and threatening the water supply. More rain is forecast.

Bulgaria celebrates the return of five nurses who, along with a Palestinian doctor, were sentenced to death in Libya, convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV. After the nurses and doctor, who is now a Bulgarian citizen, returned to the country, Bulgaria's president pardoned them all.

Six foreign medical workers who had been sentenced to death in Libya are free. The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor flew out of Libya to Bulgaria aboard a French jetliner accompanied by the wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

Two Congressional watchdog groups Tuesday called on Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) to step down from his seats on the Senate's Commerce and Appropriations committees. The senator is being investigated as part of a political corruption inquiry.

France, Denmark and Indonesia pledge to contribute to a United Nations mission to Darfur, Sudan. The U.N. will send up to 26,000 peacekeepers to the region in an attempt to end the conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people in the last four years.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hears testimony from ex-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in the inquiry into Army Ranger Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Lawmakers want to know how far up the chain of command a cover-up went.

The decline of the U.S. dollar has been detrimental to the ability of American aid agencies to provide assistance overseas. Michael Rewald, a director of the humanitarian group CARE International, discusses the impact of the weak dollar.