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  1. In this June 5, 2008 file photo, chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)
    US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears AP - Sat Oct 11, 7:14 AM ET

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

  2. In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, pirates leave the Ukrainian merchant vessel MV Faina for Somalia's shore Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship. The MV Faina which is carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related military equipment, was seized by pirates Sept. 25 and forced to proceed to anchorage off the Somali coast. A pirate spokesman said Thursday, Oct. 9, the Somali bandits holding the ship laden with tanks are open to negotiations about their ransom demands. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky)
    2nd ship seized as pirates threaten to blow up 1st AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Armed pirates hijacked a massive tanker as world powers on Saturday headed toward the Somali coast to end a two-week standoff aboard a ship laden with tanks and weapons, officials said.

  3. Ex-volunteers angry at Peace Corps Bolivia pullout AP - 1 hour, 38 minutes ago

    It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia.

  4. This Sept. 30, 2008 file photo shows, from left to right, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, join their hands during a photo opportunity during a multilateral summit in Manaus, northern Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
    Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes AP - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

    QUITO, Ecuador - In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline.

  5. Fishermen look out to sea as hurricane Norbert approaches Puerto San Carlos in Mexico's southern Baja California, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Hurricane Norbert is expected to hit land early Saturday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
    Hurricane Norbert lashes Mexico's Baja peninsula AP - 52 minutes ago

    PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico - Scores of people fled flooded homes Saturday as Hurricane Norbert lashed Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula with torrential rains and screaming winds.

  6. This Aug. 9, 2008, file photo shows Joerg Haider, top candidate of the Alliance for the future of Austria, BZOE, for Sunday's national elections in Austria in Klagenfurt. Haider died in a car accident early Saturday morning Oct. 11, 2008 in the south of the country police said. Haider, 58, was governor of Carinthia and leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger, file)
    Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider dead at 58 AP - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times sounded sympathetic to the Nazis and contemptuous of Jews and led to months of international isolation for the Alpine republic, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.

  7. Kimani, a huge bull elephant, can be seen with his collar containing a sim card, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya. Save the Elephants has set up a project where they placed a mobile phone SIM card in an elephants collar, then set up a virtual 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
    Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers AP - 58 minutes ago

    OL PEJETA, Kenya - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

  8. Leonardo Patterson is shown in his apartment in Munich, southern Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein)
    Antiquities dealer has colorful, checkered career AP - 1 hour, 52 minutes ago

    MUNICH, Germany - Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica — a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.

  9. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (C), flanked by Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (L), visits a Russian aircraft carrier in the Barents Sea October 11, 2008. (RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Dmitry Astakhov/Reuters)
    Russia test-fires ballistic missile to mid-Pacific Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 8:59 AM ET

    MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia test-launched a strategic missile to the equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean for the first time on Saturday, at a time when Moscow's growing assertiveness is fuelling tension with the West.

  10. Austrian far right leader Joerg Haider smiles before a TV discussion in Vienna in this September 28, 2008 file photo. Haider was killed in a car accident on October 11, 2008, the national news agency APA reported. It quoted police as saying Haider died after suffering severe head and chest injuries when a car he was driving went out of control and rolled over several times outside the southern city of Klagenfurt. (Heinz-Peter Bader/Files/Reuters)
    Austrian far-right leader Haider killed in crash Reuters - 2 hours, 44 minutes ago

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, a charismatic populist who helped thrust anti-immigrant politics into the European mainstream, was killed in a car accident on Saturday.

  11. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (L) visits a military unit at an undisclosed location in North Korea in this recent picture released by North Korea's official television network KRT and grabbed by South Korea's Yonhap October 11, 2008. North Korea's state TV broadcast pictures of Kim on Saturday as the reclusive country stepped up its campaign to show its leader was healthy after reports surfaced last month he may have suffered a stroke. (KRT/Yonhap/Reuters)
    North Korea steps up bid to show "recovered" Kim Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 8:30 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state TV broadcast pictures of Kim Jong-il on Saturday as the reclusive country stepped up its campaign to show its leader was healthy after reports surfaced last month he may have suffered a stroke.

  12. A Mexican police vehicle that was used by alleged drug dealers during a shoot-out in May 2008. Attackers -- dressed as police -- killed 11 people when they opened fire in a bar in Mexico's northern Chihuahua state.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)
    Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar AP - Sat Oct 11, 12:17 AM ET

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Gunmen opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate attacks, police said Friday.

  13. A Pakistani boy, wounded during a suicide attack in Hadeezai area of Orakzai tribal agency, is attended by doctors in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. A suicide bomber attacked an anti-insurgent group in a northwest tribal area, killing at least 22 and wounding around 100 people. The Orakzai area tribesmen had gathered to plan the demolition of a militant base. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
    Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned AP - Sat Oct 11, 5:18 AM ET

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan.

  14. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, prepares to shake hands with an unidentified person at the Gaggal Airport in Dharamsala, India, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 as he leaves for New Delhi. The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday.( AP Photo)
    Aide: Dalai Lama to be released from hospital soon AP - Sat Oct 11, 7:04 AM ET

    NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama is likely to be discharged from the hospital in the next few days, a senior aide said Saturday, a day after surgeons removed gallstones from the Tibetan spiritual leader.

  15. French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes Prime minister Gordon Brown before talks at the Elysee Palace on October 4. Brown will meet Sarkozy on October 12 ahead of a summit of the 15 eurozone powers.(AFP/File/Eric Feferberg)
    Brown, Sarkozy to meet ahead of eurozone summit AFP - 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet France's President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Sunday ahead of a summit of the 15 eurozone powers, Sarkozy said.

  16. Russian missile makes record flight AP - 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - Russian officials say a submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

  17. Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva delivers a speech during the U.S-Brazil CEO Forum in Sao Paulo, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. President Lula called or a new push to clinch a global free trade agreement, saying it's one of the most important steps governments can now take to make sure the global economy doesn't descend into chaos.(AP Photo/Andre Penner)
    Brazil wants its say in new financial order AP - Fri Oct 10, 6:26 PM ET

    SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil's president said Friday that emerging market nations like Brazil must have a strong say in developing strict international rules for financial institutions.

  18. In this frame grab made off undated North Korea's Korean Central Television (KCTV) footage aired on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 and distributed by South Korea's Yonhap news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il claps as he inspects a female military unit in North Korea. North Korea released pictures of Kim on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he had a serious health setback. (AP Photo/Korean Central Television via Yonhap)
    North Korea releases pictures of Kim Jong Il AP - Sat Oct 11, 7:11 AM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea released pictures of leader Kim Jong Il on Saturday for the first time in nearly two months, showing the reclusive ruler looking generally well despite reports he recently underwent brain surgery.

  19. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni arrives to Israel's northern coastal city of Acre October 10, 2008. Police used tear gas and water cannon to try and stamp out clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel's northern coastal city of Acre on Thursday, officials said. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
    Israel's Acre suffers third night of violence Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 9:22 AM ET

    ACRE, Israel (Reuters) - Rioters in northern Israel torched two houses and badly damaged several others in the third night of tensions between Jewish and Arab residents of Acre, officials said Saturday.

  20. Iran suspends VAT plan after bazaar protests: media Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 1:36 AM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president ordered the suspension of a new value added tax (VAT) scheme after it sparked protests among influential bazaar merchants in Tehran and other cities, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

  21. Spanish police seal off a road. A British woman and her 14-year-old daughter have drowned in a flash flood in eastern Spain which has been lashed by torrential rains, officials said.(AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)
    British mother, teenage daughter drown in Spanish floods AFP - Fri Oct 10, 9:27 AM ET

    MADRID (AFP) - A British woman and her 14-year-old daughter have drowned in a flash flood in eastern Spain which has been lashed by torrential rains, officials said on Friday.

  22. Canada to buy up to $25 bln in insured mortgages Reuters - Fri Oct 10, 4:15 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada plans to buy up to C$25 billion ($21 billion) in insured residential mortgages to help cushion banks from the global financial crisis and address a "scarcity" of private-sector lending, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

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