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On Tuesday, 115 cardinals convened, celebrated mass and then entered the Sistine Chapel for the first day of closed door deliberations on who should be the next pope.

They're partying inside Buckingham Palace Friday evening. Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were married Friday.

The Irish entrepreneur stepped down as leader of one of the world's largest tech conferences following remarks he made about Israel and war crimes.

The scene is a safe house somewhere in Britain. And the players are British intelligence agents, diplomats, and one lean, white-haired Libyan man named Moussa Koussa. He's Libya's foreign minister, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi's embattled regime. Koussa flew to England Wednesday, and the British say he's resigned his post and defected — and that they've spent the day debriefing him.

Saturday, Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan leads a mass "march" (actually a convoy of trucks and buses) from Islamabad to the tribal territory of South Waziristan to protest U.S. drone strikes in the region. NPR's Philip Reeves reports the "marchers" are planning to enter South Waziristan on Sunday, but it is far from clear that the Pakistani military will allow them inside the tribal territory.

The crash raised new questions about the safety of the Osprey, which has been involved in multiple fatal accidents over its relatively short time in service.

Joan Donovan accused Harvard of violating her free speech rights and the school's own commitment to academic freedom in an attempt to protect its relationship with the tech company and its executives.

Investigators with the National Science Foundation's watchdog office will travel to Antarctica to address years-long allegations of sexual misconduct at U.S. research bases.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Rick Noack, who covers Afghanistan for The Washington Post, about Wednesday's deadline set by the Pakistani government for undocumented migrants to leave or face deportation.

CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen just returned from Pakistan, where he visited the town where Osama bin Laden was killed. He talks about the various conspiracy theories surrounding bin Laden's death — and how al-Qaida has changed in recent years.