GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA - Hearings are underway in the United States Senate to assess what to do with the 240 detainees still behind bars at Guantánamo Bay, and what will become of the military tribunals and detention without trial that the Bush administration and a compliant Congress put into place.

MANILA, Saturday (Reuters) – Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, whose ouster of one of the 20th Century's most corrupt dictators made her a global icon of democracy, died today after a 16-month battle against colon cancer. She was 76.