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Police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad detain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, preventing her from leading a protest march against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of the state of emergency. There are also reports that thousands of Bhutto supporters have been rounded up.

Michael Mukasey spent nearly 20 years judging cases from the bench in New York. Now it's his turn to be judged. The Senate Judiciary Committee opens a confirmation hearing on Mukasey's nomination to be the next attorney general.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, a senior adviser to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, blames scant security by the Pakistani government for the bombing attack hours after Bhutto's return to Pakistan after eight years in exile.

Retired judge Michael Mukasey, the nominee for attorney general, returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee for a second round of questioning. He says torture is illegal, but did not specify what techniques constitute torture or what methods would be banned.

President Bush tried to devote his news conference at the White House on Wednesday to domestic issues, but he soon found that reporters had foreign-policy questions on their minds — many focusing on Iraq or Iran.

Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, ends an eight-year exile to return to Pakistan. Supporters welcomed her in Karachi. She has been negotiating a possible power sharing deal with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized leadership in a bloodless coup in 1999.

Turkey continues to voice its opposition to a controversial resolution circulating in the U.S. House regarding the 1915 mass killing of more than a million Armenians. The Turkish government has threatened to curtail military ties with the U.S., and lawmakers are withdrawing their support of the resolution.

In the second day of his confirmation hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey on Thursday refused to say that waterboarding is torture. He declined to say that he rejects waterboarding, saying only that if it is torture, it can't be used.

A House committee has voted to call on President Bush to declare that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago was genocide. Turkey and the Bush administration worked unsuccessfully to defeat the resolution, but the battle is not over.

In Duluth, Minn., on Thursday, a federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas for copyright infringement for sharing music online. Thomas is to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs involved in the case. Eric Bangeman, who has been covering the trial for the tech Web site Ars Technica, talks with Michele Norris about what the case will mean for future litigation involving file sharing.