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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday that he will testify in a Senate hearing on the National Security Agency's recently revealed domestic eavesdropping program. No date has been set for the hearing, but senior Justice Department officials said they expect Gonzales to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in early February. The hearing will be open to the press and public. It will address the program's legal aspects -- not how the highly classified  ...

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The U.S. government has blocked a planned sale of 12 military aircraft from Spain to Venezuela on the grounds that the planes contain U.S. military technology, and cannot be transferred without approval from Washington, a U.S. embassy spokesman told CNN. The move was made amid concerns the United States has about Venezuela's government, considered authoritarian by the Bush administration. Spain reacted by pledging to substitute the U.S. technology on the planes with ot ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested a woman in London on Friday in connection with the 1982 murder of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, who was known as "God's banker" for his close ties to the Vatican. The woman, who police did not name, was arrested for perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in connection with Calvi's murder, a City of London police spokeswoman said. Calvi, once thought to have committed suicide, was found hanging from scaffolding under Blackfriars Bridge in J ...

(CNN) -- NASA's Stardust space probe is racing toward Earth, carrying a tiny payload of cometary and interstellar dust -- particles that scientists believe are leftovers from the creation of our solar system. If all goes as planned, Stardust will release the 100-lb. (45 kilogram)capsule carrying the samples at 1 a.m. ET on Sunday. It would enter Earth's atmosphere about four hours later and parachute to the ground in Utah at 5:12 a.m. ET. If there is a delay, scientists will settle in and wait ...

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The central Ohio city of Westerville, once known as the "dry capital of the world," is dry no more. A pizza parlor on Thursday became the first establishment in Westerville's uptown business district to legally serve a beer since 1875. "Here's to a new tradition in Westerville," local jeweler Bill Morgan said as he raised his plastic cup of Budweiser at Michael's Pizza. Westerville's temperance history dates back 131 years, when the town's saloon was blown up during ...

(CNN) -- President Bush, in a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on Friday, said that Iran, "armed with a nuclear weapon, poses a grave threat to the security of the world." Merkel said it was essential that as many nations as possible take a common position against Iran's nuclear activities. "We certainly will not be intimidated by a country such as Iran," she said. Bush said their meeting was part of a "proactive" diplomatic effort to determine how best ...

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Doctors on Friday released Baby Noor, the 3-month-old Iraqi girl brought to the United States for life-saving medical treatment after being discovered by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad. "Her prognosis is excellent as far as her ability to develop normally and cognitively," Dr. Roger Hudgins, the pediatric neurosurgeon at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, told CNN's "Live From." Hudgins performed the surgery Monday to realign and enclose her spinal column. She suffered fro ...

LONGWOOD, Florida (AP) -- A suicidal eighth grader who pulled a handgun in class and briefly took another child hostage was shot by a SWAT team member Friday when he later threatened deputies, Seminole County officials said. Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack and briefly took a fellow student hostage during a classroom scuffle. T ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Some 40 gay rights activists protested outside St Peter's Square on Friday, a day after Pope Benedict condemned homosexual marriage. The group stayed out of the square, which is Vatican territory, but held up banners and placards criticising the Roman Catholic Church. One banner read "2000 years of discrimination" and said the Church should stay out of Italian affairs. Benedict, in an address to Italian politicians on Thursday, re-stated the Church opposition to gay m ...

(CNN) -- In a newspaper column Friday, L. Paul Bremer, the former U.S. administrator of Iraq, admitted, "I made some mistakes" in Iraq and argued the United States needs to be better prepared for post-conflict operations in the future. Bremer made the remarks in a New York Times op-ed piece published Friday called "In Iraq, Wrongs Made a Right." The column follows a book Bremer has written entitled "My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope," which Simon & Schuster published t ...