Gunmen kill U.S. official in Sudan

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a U.S. government aid agency official and his driver in Khartoum on Tuesday, U.S. and Sudanese officials said. The unknown assailants opened fire as the official from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ... full story

updated Mon October 01, 2007

UN envoy meets Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi

YANGON (AFP) - A UN envoy met Myanmar's detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of the ruling junta Sunday, as he tried to broker an end to a...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Maldives president blames opposition for bomb attack

MALE (Reuters) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Sunday blamed opposition groups behind a tourism boycott campaign for a homemade bomb that wounded...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Quake near Guam sways buildings

GUAM (Reuters) - A strong earthquake swayed buildings on the Pacific island of Guam on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami aler...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Pfizer faces $8.5 bln suit over Nigeria drug trial

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A court case brought by Nigeria against Pfizer resumes on Wednesday with the U.S. drug maker saying it answered a call for help to...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Turbulent Ukraine chooses new parliament

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians voted for a new parliament on Sunday in an election that President Viktor Yushchenko said offered a choice between "false sta...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Magnitude 7.4 quake hits near New Zealand

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 hit some 500 km (300 miles) southwest of New Zealand on Sunday, but there were no reports o...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Ramadan violence falls sharply in Iraq: U.S.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Violence in Iraq during Ramadan has fallen by almost 40 percent from last year, the U.S. military said on Sunday, despite a warning from a...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

North Korea talks consider "nuts and bolts" text

BEIJING (Reuters) - Talks aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear programmes ended on Sunday to allow delegates to return to their home countries to dis...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

U.N. peace envoy meets detained leader

YANGON (Reuters) - U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari had talks on Sunday with Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several members of the mi...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Favre throws No. 421

MINNEAPOLIS - Brett Favre is No. 1 — with a bullet. Favre broke Dan Marino's reco...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

'Game Plan' pays off with $22.7 million

LOS ANGELES - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had the winning game plan at the box office. Disney's "The Game Plan," starring Johnson as a football quarterback whose...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Giuliani argues he can beat Hillary

NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani has focused on November 2008 — and Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton — from the outset of his presidential bid ...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

U.S. makes gains in dismantling warheads

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is dismantling unneeded nuclear warheads at a faster pace than forecast as it substantially reduces its atomic arsenal under terms of an ...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Poor smokers would pay for health bill

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children's health coverage: p...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Sputnik at 50: An improvised triumph

MOSCOW - When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Sov...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

Mich. lawmakers try to avoid shutdown

LANSING, Mich. - Lawmakers worked through the night to avoid a partial government shutdown and appeared to be close to a deal Sunday that would increase taxes ...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

U.N. members, gun lobby face arms fight

UNITED NATIONS - Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last y...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

U.S. Embassy rips Iraq partition plan

BAGHDAD - The U.S. Embassy on Sunday criticized a Senate resolution that could lead to a division of the country into sectarian or ethnic territories, agreeing...

updated Mon October 01, 2007

U.N. envoy, Myanmar opposition head meet

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's government unexpectedly allowed the country's leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday ...

updated Sun September 30, 2007

Kabul bus bomber kills 30 troops

KABUL (AFP) - A suicide bomber wearing an army uniform blew up an Afghan military bus in Kabul Saturday, killing around 30 people and wounding many more in one of the deadliest attacks of the Taliban's insurgen...