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Nominees for the 75th annual Emmy Awards were announced Wednesday by actor Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy Chairman Frank Scherma.

As the death toll mounts in Kenya following a disputed election, a history teacher in McLean, Va., fears for his family back home in the Kibera slum. Ken Okoth helps them get to safety in Tanzania. Now he worries about children from an orphanage he runs.

Kenya's disputed presidential election triggers an explosion of violence that has killed more than 275 people, including dozens burned alive as they sought refuge in a church. President Mwai Kibaki, newly inaugurated for a second term, calls for a meeting with his political opponents.

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.

The career of a once-revered Olympic athlete is in tatters. Track and field superstar Marion Jones pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal agents about her use of banned performance-enhancing drugs. Following her appearance in a federal court, she made the tearful announcement that she is retiring from her sport.

Searchers say they have found no sign of Steve Fossett after his single-engine plane disappeared in the rugged mountains and sagebrush-filled desert of western Nevada.

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, says he wants to know more about the investigation that pointed to scientist Bruce Ivins as the government's main suspect. Ivins died last week in what has been ruled a suicide.

Georgia this weekend prepared for increased ground attacks as Russia sent more troops and hundreds of tanks into the breakaway province of South Ossetia on Saturday. President Bush urged Russia and Georgia Saturday morning to declare a cease fire.

The 3-digit suicide prevention lifeline went live a year ago. More work is needed on the 988 system, but the first year has gone more smoothly than many expected.

An unusual advertising campaign in Spanish-language newspapers and radio stations calls for undocumented immigrants to turn themselves in. The ads are part of a new self-deportation program sponsored by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). James T. Hayes, who heads the program, explains the ad campaign and whether it's working.