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A Malaysian court Tuesday rejected Anwar Ibrahim's bid to stop his sodomy trial from going forward, dealing another blow to the opposition leader's fluctuating fortunes since he achieved spectacular election results last year.

Romania's government has collapsed and its economy is in shambles but its presidential campaign has been dominated in recent days by a video that appears to show the president striking a 10-year-old boy in the face.

A German tourist has been arrested on charges of making a false bomb threat while visiting Walt Disney World.

A four-year-old boy has died after being attacked by a dog. The incident happened at a house in Wavertree, Liverpool, in the early hours.

Sen. Carl Levin appears on 'Face the Nation' on Sunday. Levin said said President Obama's principal mission should be training the Afghan military.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Nanjing ahead of the 12th China-European Union summit, due to be held Monday morning.

Hondurans on Sunday elected a new president whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and ending a crisis over a June coup that has isolated one of Latin America's poorest countries.

The Iranian government approved a plan tonight to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of UN demands it halt the programme.

Gordon Brown has sent a tough challenge to Pakistan to step up action against the al Qaida terror network and "take out" its leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri.

Several white wooden coffins - all but one shut to hide the journalists' disfigured remains - were crammed into a rundown funeral parlor in the southern Philippines, not far from where they were slaughtered with guns, machetes and a backhoe.

Hospital watchdogs came under fresh pressure to intervene to protect patient safety after research found 12 trusts were "significantly underperforming". The latest analysis by the Dr Foster organisation also identified 27 trusts with unusually high mortality rates - totalling 5,000 more deaths than expected.

As world markets absorbed the shock of Dubai's debt crisis, the ruler of the once-booming city-state left town for an important meeting in a desert palace.

The head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, said experts found pieces of an explosive device that detonated around 9:30 Friday night as the train raced over it, gouging a five-foot crater and strewing smoking wreckage over a rural stretch of track.

A cargo plane crashed as it took off from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four other employees after it veered off the runway and burst into flames.

The triple-deck ferry, M.V. Coco, floats after it tipped and its rear portion sank in the Tetulia River late Friday near the coastal town of Bhola, 64 miles south of Dhaka, Bangladesh , Saturday, Nov.

Nov 27 - Three adorable lion cubs draw a crowd at the Kamine Zoo, north of Tokyo, Japan.

An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed late Friday, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens of others, emergency officials said.

A former Olympic judo contestant has been convicted of possessing firearms in his role as 'enforcer' for a 50 million drugs gang.

The chairman of a hospital foundation trust has been removed from his post over a series of failings, regulator Monitor has announced.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term.

China has executed two men for abducting and selling 15 children, many of whom were taken as babies or toddlers and have not yet been reunited with their parents, state media said Friday.

Canada's former top official on Afghanistan says allegations of abuse in the country's jails were well known in 2006 when the military was turning over detainees to Afghan authorities.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has confirmed he will attend a major climate change summit next month in Copenhagen.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking 43 million euros, or about $65 million US, a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.

China announced plans Thursday to sharply boost its energy efficiency by slowing the growth of carbon emissions as part of its contribution to the fight against global warming.

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to expand Tehran's influence in Latin America and deepen his alliance with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez on Wednesday in a visit that gave him a platform to defend his country's nuclear program.

A former head of MI6 has launched an attack on the Government for its financing and handling of the military campaign in Afghanistan.

As Prince Charles and his wife Camilla attend the world premiere of Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones' in London, star Susan Sarandon says that the Prince once dated a friend of hers.

Mullah Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban, has rejected peace overtures from Hamid Karzai, the country's president, and again demanded that foreign troops leave the country.

Pakistani prosecutors charged seven men on Wednesday with planning and helping execute last year's Mumbai terror attacks.

Visitors to South Africa's premier holiday destination who are worried about becoming victims of the country's high crime rate could find themselves instead robbed by a more furry kind of felon: baboons.

The first state dinner of the Obama White House had it all: Oscar-winning entertainers, Hollywood moguls, a knockout guest chef and even a wardrobe malfunction.

This artist sketch provided by the FBI shows a likeness of Abu Ibrahim,A a suspected bomb-making terrorist who has eluded capture for decades.

The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies, pushing the death toll to 46 in some of the deadliest election violence in the nation's history.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he's not aware of any more such strategy sessions being scheduled, the latest signal that Obama is closing in on a revamped war strategy after several weeks of review.

Official news agency says death sentences carried out on pair who added industrial chemical to infant formula Associated Press in Beijing guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 24 November 2009 08.59 GMT Zhang Yujun, second right, seen here before the trial last December, was executed for endangering public safety.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is hoping to relaunch stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by convincing his cabinet to freeze West Bank settlement construction for ten months.

Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday.

Prostitution SYDNEY a ' A U.S. Navy serviceman was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting a prostitute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city.

In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China 's Sichuan province.

Pop star Sting has said Brazil's government should listen to the voices of local indigenous groups before building a massive hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest.

Residents of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held an unusual beauty pageant celebrating a group of homosexual men who don elaborate makeup, wear ...

Four men have been charged with terrorism offences following counter-terror raids.

In this file photo made on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is seen at a rally in Basra , Iraq 's second-largest city, 550 kilometers southeast of Baghdad .

Israel will anger all Muslims if it does not resolve Jerusalem's disputed status, Egypt's president warned his Israeli counterpart on Sunday.

In this May 27, 2005 file photo, a Singaporean Navy vessel patrols the crowded straits between Singapore, background, and Indonesia off the coast of Batam, Indonesia.

A leaked Government report on "lessons learnt" after the Iraq war reveals "appalling" failures that left the British Army ill-equipped for battle and the subsequent occupation, it has been reported.

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, is escorted by a penitentiary police officers at the end of a hearing at Perugia's court, Italy, Saturday, Nov.

General view of a neighborhood on January 22, 2009 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip a ' Hamas announced Saturday evening that it has reached an agreement with other militant groups in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israeli towns to prevent retaliatory attacks.

Nov. 21 - Taipei Beef Noodle Festival kicks off amid fears over the lifting of Taiwan's ban on U.S. beef imports.

Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities said.

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.

The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.

The Harper government is waiting with "anticipation" to learn how many more troops U.S. President Barack Obama will send to Afghanistan, in part to replace the withdrawal of Canadian soldiers scheduled for 2011, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

Afghan soldiers secure a street in Kabul on Thursday. KABUL - A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan .

Nov 19 - Militants have struck again in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, close to the Afghan border.

Top Canadian officials discussed in 2006 whether the then-governor of Kandahar was involved in the torture of prisoners and dismissed the concern, The Canadian Press has learned.

European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the bloc's first president on Thursday and appointed Briton Catherine Ashton as its foreign affairs chief.

A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned to her when she got back a week later.

As Karzai promised to make the country safer, an explosion in violent southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. service members, NATO said.

President Barack Obama said Thursday the United States has begun talking with allies about fresh punishment against Iran for defying efforts to halt its nuclear weapons pursuits.

Nov 18 - U.S. President Barack Obama attends a banquet in Beijing with President Hu Jintao and is entertained by American and Chinese students performing pop songs.

A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead.

The U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama arrives in Mombasa, Kenya, in this Saturday April 11 2009, file photo, after the ship was attacked by Somali pirates firing automatic weapons Wednesday but its unarmed crew locked themselves in a secure room.

Nov. 15: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses President Barack Obama's impending decision on troop levels in Afghanistan and the leadership of President Hamid Karzai with NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press." Meet the Press A A Afghanistan in pictures updated Nov.

The soldier son of Britain's biggest lottery winner is preparing to fight in Afghanistan, it has been reported.

Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in ...

Israel moved Tuesday to approve a plan to build 900 more housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in the part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians, drawing harsh criticism from the United States.

Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.

Allied troops must stay in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban filling any "vacuum", the Foreign Secretary has said.

BEIJING a ' Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Obama said today that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but for the world.

South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

International talks in London could be used to set a "clear timetable" for the handover of power in Afghanistan, the key to bringing troops home, Gordon Brown has suggested.

Map of Afghanistan locates Tagab in Kapisa province, where insurgents fired two rockets into a crowded market Insurgents fired two rockets Monday into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders.

Gunmen killed at least 13 people in a Sunni village west of Baghdad, dumping their bullet-riddled bodies in a cemetery, Iraqi security officials said Monday.

Four men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act. Officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit arrested the men at addresses in Manchester and Bolton in a co-ordinated operation starting at 4am, Greater Manchester Police said.

Suspected militants have killed more than 300 civilians and security personnel in the last month in an attempt to weaken the country's resolve to continue the military operation in the tribal area of South Waziristan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.

Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said.

The idea appeared to be largely symbolic. The U.S., Israel's closest ally, would likely veto any initiative at the United Nations, and Israel controls the areas where the Palestinians want to establish their homeland.

Britain and Australia are saying sorry to thousands of British children who were promised a better life overseas, only to suffer abuse and neglect thousands of miles from home.

Nov 14 - Rescue and relief operations are underway after a New Delhi-bound train derails near Jaipur city in northwestern Rajasthan state.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution with a concert attended by celebrities.

Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.

A suicide car bomber killed 10 people, including four children, Saturday at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said.

A speeding train derailed in western India early Saturday killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80 others.

Unusually early snow storms in north-central China have claimed 40 lives, caused thousands of buildings to collapse and destroyed almost 500,000 acres of winter crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday.

THEY were three words that put the cat right among the pigeons: 'Thatcher has died', the text message said.

American screen icon Clint Eastwood was made a commander in France's prestigious Legion of Honor on Friday.

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian U.s. courthouse in New York, blocks from site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks.

China is doing what it can to expand domestic demand and rebalance its economy, President Hu Jintao said Friday, calling for renewed efforts to improve international financial oversight to prevent future crises.

UK officials proposed a strategic reconciliation between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders, a leaked memo has showed.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan a ' A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistana TMs main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the countrya TMs anti-terror campaign.

Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large enough to serve for military activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Palestinian election officials on Thursday recommended calling off January's presidential vote, a step that could result in embattled President Mahmoud Abbas staying in office indefinitely.

A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.

North Korea threatened South Korea with possible punishment today over a skirmish that left one of its warships badly damaged and a crew member dead.

The body of a US paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier in Afghanistan has been found.

US military divers found the body in a river, close to the Taliban-controlled province of Badghis, which borders Turkmenistan.

The two had been trying to retrieve supplies that had inadvertently been airdropped into the water, when speeding currents washed them away.

Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.

Nov 11 - A huge power cut brings chaos to Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro and cities in at least four other Brazilian states.

Emirates airline, the biggest buyer of the "superjumbo" Airbus A380, said Wednesday it is considering increasing its order for the double-decker plane despite delays on existing orders.

PUTRAJAYA: Chinese President Hu Jintao said China and Malaysia have agreed to work to enhance their strategic and cooperative relationship.

Former top executives at Blackwater Worldwide say the U.S. security contractor sent about $1 million to its Iraq office with the intention of paying off officials in the country who were angry about the fatal shootings of 17 civilians by Blackwater employees, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 The Pentagon says a small shipment of H1N1 flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Veterans saluted and mourners laid flowers on hearses as hundreds paid tribute Tuesday to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan - including five shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.

The bombing in Charsadda city was the third attack in as many days in or close to Peshawar , the capital of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

French Foreign Legionnaires leave combat outpost near Kabul on Monday. President Obama A is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan , though not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there.

Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.

A Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion will be allowed to return to class.

Nov. 9 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined thousands of others to walk across a former checkpoint in celebration of 20 years since the wall's collapse SOUNDBITE: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL MUS, ONLOOKER FROM THE NETHERLANDS Georgina Cooper, Reuters No videos currently selected.

A pro-rape Facebook page, set up by a group of past and present elite Australian college students, has been taken down, but still ran from early August until late October, authorities say.

No fewer than 32 children have been killed over the past three years while working in Gaza arms smuggling tunnels, according to a new report released in the Palestinian Authority.

The report, prepared by an organization called the Palestinian National Society for Democracy and Law, was released on Saturday. It deals with the child abuse perpetrated on child laborers in the tunnels used to smuggle weapons, arms and other items from Egypt into Gaza.

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification.

The U.S. military says two American pilots have died in a helicopter crash in Iraq.

Gordon Brown is to join other world leaders in Germany for the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said Sunday.

Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.

Britain's Defence Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but they failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.

Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico's Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

Shimon Peres spoke to a crowd of thousands at the square where Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist who opposed his peace policies on Nov.

Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others had their heads covered, burqa-style, but with shoulders -- and tattoos -- exposed.

Nov. 7 - A Mexican mother has been reunited with her one-year-old daughter after the baby girl was allegedly sold to another woman by a baby-selling ring in Mexico City.

A mother who died in a house fire after apparently pushing her teenage son to safety through a window may have been killed after a firework was posted through her letterbox, investigators said.

Three former defence chiefs have launched a scathing attack on Gordon Brown's Afghanistan policy.

In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls.

Two American soldiers disappeared in western Afghanistan after a routine resupply mission, and more than 25 NATO and Afghan security forces members were wounded during the search mission for them, the alliance said Friday.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan's government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.

Gunmen on a motorcycle wounded a senior army officer and soldier in the Pakistani capital Friday, the third such attack in about two weeks as militants retaliate against a new military offensive along the Afghan border.

Editor's note: Reuters journalist Deborah Gembara was embedded with the 1-501rst Infantry Battallion in Kushamond, Afghanistan.

The U.N. General Assembly is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza.The 192-member body adopted the resolution Thursday by a vote of 114-18, with others absent or abstaining.The resolution calls on the Security Council to act if either side fails to launch credible ...

Hurricane Ida hits Nicaraguan coast This November 4, 2009 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration handout satellite image shows Tropical Depression 11 formed just off the coast of Costa Rica.

A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The United Nations said today that it is temporarily relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack.

The UN mission is still reeling from a pre-dawn assault on a guesthouse in the capital last week that left five UN staff dead.

Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.

Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside. Containers from the vessel bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group."

Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades and anti-tank weapons — the largest it ever seized — was headed for Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Israel stopped the ship, named the Francop, off the coast of Cyprus and towed it to the port of Ashdod. It carried orange, red, white and blue containers piled three deep on its deck.

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

Tropical storm Ida has formed in the southwest Caribbean, quickly adding muscle and prompting storm warnings for the coast of Nicaragua and two Colombian islands.

Afghan opium production is on the rise, helping to fund the Taliban and other terror groups and having a devastating impact across the world, experts say.

An earthquake has hit the southern part of Iran. The official news agency of Iran has reported major injuries from the incident, with 100 people being hospitalised.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their construction halted "forever."

Still, she said an Israeli offer to restrain—but not halt—construction represents "positive movement forward" toward resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

An Afghan policeman opened fire on British soldiers in the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing five, British and Afghan authorities said Wednesday, raising concerns about discipline within the Afghan forces and possible infiltration by insurgents.

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

A 39-year-old woman was found dead on a railway line just three days after her father was killed on the same stretch of track, it has emerged.

Exorcisms have long been a part of Catholicism, yet they are something most Catholics have never experienced.

Maccabim-Reut junction on Route 443, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The incident occurred next to the Arab village of Beit Sira.

Sources said the girl's father, an emergency medical technician (EMT), kept driving until he reached a nearby gas station, where Magen David Adom (MDA) and Hatzoloh emergency medics arrived and immediately treated the little girl, who was lightly injured in the face. She did not require hospitalization, and it was not clear whether she was hit by flying glass or by a rock.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Washington to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, will speak on Tuesday to a joint meeting of both houses of the US Congress.

British coup-plotter Simon Mann and four South African mercenaries have been pardoned for plotting the overthrow of the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, the country's chief judge told The Associated Press on Tuesday.Supreme Court Chief Justice Obono Olo said Mann and his accomplices would be freed Tuesday morning and flown home.

Nov 2 - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's plane belches smoke fire during a domestic flight from Taipei to Taichung on Sunday .

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, chat with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a welcoming ceremony Monday in St.

Liberian media are reporting that a government official has been shot and killed by a gang of men outside the African country's capital.

A senior British explosives expert has been killed while trying to defuse a bomb on the last day of his tour in Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai was effectively handed a second five-year term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administration said it was prepared to work with the man it has previously criticized to combat corruption and confront the Taliban insurgency.

A Pakistani police officer keeps position behind a tire at a checkpoint in Shakhupura near Lahore, Pakistan Sunday, Nov.

Union workers at Ford Motor Co.'s Canadian division have backed a cost-cutting agreement that the Canadian Auto Workers reached with the automaker last week.

Guantanamo Bay SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico a ' Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

Panic set in in Iceland this weekend. It was a run, but not a run on a bank. It was a run on McDonald's. McDonald's is leaving Iceland, as they announced earlier .

Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.

Nov. 1 - More than 50 people have been arrested in the Russian capital during an unauthorised protest.

China's legislature has removed the country's unpopular education minister amid a corruption scandal in a city he used to oversee and widespread public dissatisfaction with the education system.