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The Saturday Night Live star, who died last year after a battle with cancer, shot a one-hour special from his living room. Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special will stream on Netflix starting May 30.

Londoners celebrate the news that their city will host the 2012 Olympic Games. Early Wednesday, Olympics organizers announced their choice of London over Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow. Hear Michele Norris and Alan Hamilton of The Times of London.

Rain and storm surge from Hurricane Rita have sent water over and through breaches in patched levees around New Orleans. The lower Ninth Ward, which was completely flooded by Hurricane Katrina, is once again under water.

Marine officials said this week that instructors at Parris Island, S.C., could have prevented the drowning death of a young recruit last February. The five-month investigation may lead to criminal charges. The family of Jason Tharp still has questions about what happened to their son.

Hurricane Rita comes ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border, blasting Lake Charles, La., with 120-mph winds. The Category 3 storm threatens a wide swath of the two states, but will pass well to the east of Houston.

The vaccine couldn't have come at a more critical time, with a surge in cases and deaths from malaria during the pandemic. But its efficacy — and its schedule — are far from ideal.

Architect Daniel Liebeskind's design for the new structure undergoes a facelift to include more safety precautions. Melissa Block talks with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.

After nearly two and a half years, NASA is on the verge of launching a space shuttle. If weather permits, Discovery will blast into orbit Wednesday afternoon. The mission will service the international space station, but it is also an important symbolic step after the Columbia disaster of 2003.

White House deputy Karl Rove was the source Time reporter Mathew Cooper risked jail to protect in an inquiry into the leak of a CIA agent's name, according to Newsweek. Rove apparently didn't name agent Valerie Plame, saying instead that she was former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife.