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Also: Islamic State militants are surrounded in Raqqa, Syria; the latest on California's wildfires; and the plague outbreak is getting worse in Madagascar.

Two big surprises awaited Paul Bremer when he arrived in Iraq: that the country's chaos made it ripe for insurgency; and that the U.S. government would withhold additional troops. Bremer became the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in May of 2003.

With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.

"Hey everyone, I'm really honored and looking forward to working on Top Gear," the former Friends star said Thursday. He has been a guest on the show several times.

New details from a Census survey shows just how much more diverse the American electorate is becoming, with political implications still to come.

The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.

The Miami-Dade based Florida Task Force-1 is just one of several specialized groups on the ground in Surfside. They deploy to disasters across the globe, but now, they're needed at home.

President Bush named top White House economic adviser Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday to succeed the near-legendary Alan Greenspan.

Also in our weekly roundup, rural teens are experiencing homelessness, and four universities are suing the federal government over international student immigration rules.