The Department of the Interior is expected to tell a Congressional panel today that the government was not short-changed $700 million in gas company royalties, as originally reported. John Dimsdale explains.

Starting this month, the Statue of Liberty will be lit exclusively by wind power. And as Sarah Gardner reports, it'll cost the government more than if it used conventional energy.

Bird flu is spreading across Europe, but so far, no bird has tested positive in this country. Still, the US Agriculture Department has moved to ban imports of birds from parts of France where bird flu has been found. The US isn't the only country looking at a ban on French chicken; the British are too. But pandemic fears may not be the only reason, as Stephen Beard reports from London.