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Thursday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff briefed the media about a suspected British terror plot, in which 21 suspects have been arrested in Great Britain.

Jay Waite, an associate director of the U.S. Census Bureau, talks about new methods used to measure demographic change. Surveys conducted once a decade are not sufficient for local planners. So data will now be available that is only a year old, covering everything from Internet access to language issues.

According to a new government report, allegations of wrongdoing by military recruiters rose from 4,400 cases in 2004 to 6,600 cases in 2005 -- and numbers are likely worse than reported. Violations range from falsifying documents to telling a recruit not to reveal a legal or medical problem that could bar enlistment. The rise in recruiter problems could reflect pressure to meet wartime recruiting goals.

Idaho Gov. Jim Risch on Wednesday announced he has asked the federal government to redesignate 85 percent of the state's "roadless" areas in National Forest land to allow some development and logging. He submitted the petition despite a federal court ruling Wednesday that overturned the Bush administration's program to allow states to manage their own roadless areas.

The cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel seems to be holding in its second day, prompting many Lebanese to return home and Israelis to cautiously emerge from bomb shelters in northern Israel. Some minor clashes were reported within Lebanon as Israeli troops begin to withdraw.

Sri Lankan authorities closed schools and asked public officials not to come to work in a desperate move to prepare for an acute fuel shortage during the nation's worst economic crisis in decades.

Making it the biggest safety recall in computer industry history, Dell is recalling more than four million laptop batteries. The company says that overheating can cause the Sony batteries it uses to catch fire.

Former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey. His new memoir, The Confession details his life and events leading up to his August 2004 coming-out speech. McGreevey was governor from January 2002 to November 2004, when he resigned. In addition to coming out as a homosexual, McGreevey appointed alleged Israeli lover Golan Cipel to the position of New Jersey's Homeland Security adviser. Since the publication of The Confession, Cipel has stated that he was not McGreevey's lover, as detailed in McGreevey's book.

Iran has missed a July 5 deadline to accept a U.N. package of incentives offered in exchange for a suspension of its uranium enrichment program. Under Secretary of Political Affairs Nicholas Burns says Iran is "profoundly isolated" right now, and the U.N. offer provides a way out.

Traffic to the town of Tyre is cut off after an Israeli air strike destroyed the bridge spanning the Litani River. But the aid group creates a human chain to deliver 4 1/2 tons of medical supplies to those in need.