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Michele Norris talks with Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, Chicago sisters who won a James Beard Foundation Award for their Web site, spatulatta.com. At ages 10 and 8, the sisters are the youngest people to win the prestigious award. Their site is geared toward teaching kids how to cook.

Lloyd Richards, one of the most respected directors and educators in American theater, died in Manhattan on his 87th birthday. Richards was the first African American to direct a Broadway play: A Raisin in the Sun.

One of President Bush's goals in South Asia is a deal to sell India nuclear fuel. The tradeoff -- and a potential sticking point -- would be India's willingness to open civilian nuclear facilities to international inspectors.

A backlash is under way across the country following a recent Supreme Court decision allowing cities broad power to seize private property for commercial development. Last week, Alabama enacted legislation to limit that power. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley discusses the new law.

The revelation this week of the identity of Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's celebrated anonymous source on the Watergate scandal, has stirred up the memories of many journalists. These competing reporters, beaten badly at the outset of Watergate, say that the accolades raining down on the Washington Post obscure scoops of their own.

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.

The U.S. and Great Britain are at odds on how to proceed with debt relief for the world's poorest nations. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair both want to wipe out the debts of African nations. But that's where agreement ends.

A new study shows that barely a third of Americans with mental illness get proper treatment. And most people with mental illness get their care from primary care physicians. Primary care doctors say they see people who don't want to believe they have a mental illness, and don't want to get treated for one.

Thursday's bombings in London came as the Group of Eight industrialized nations began its annual meeting. The G8 leaders agreed Friday to increase aid to Africa by $50 billion. That increase will take place by 2010, and is a doubling of foreign aid for some countries, including the United States.

France's ruling center-right coalition lost its absolute majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, presenting President Emmanuel Macron with the likelihood of a difficult second term in office.