Summary: Major powers gave Iran two weeks to answer calls to rein in its nuclear programme on Saturday or face tougher sanctions after talks ended in stalemate despite unprecedented US participation
Summary: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met the commander of US troops in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday to talk about the war he says is not getting enough attention from the Bush administration
Summary: Zimbabwes main opposition party could sign an agreement as early as Monday to begin substantive talks with President Robert Mugabes party on ending a political impasse that has worsened the countrys severe economic crisis opposition officials said on Satu
Summary: A police officer who was cleared of wrongdoing after CCTV cameras showed him punching a woman he was trying to arrest has died after being found on a Welsh mountainside
Summary: Irelands Labour Party has turned down a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy next week to resolve deadlock over the EU reform treaty saying the format proposed was pointless and a trifle arrogant
Summary: The Arab League criticised the International Criminal Courts prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudans president on genocide charges saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur
Summary: Iraqs main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shiiteled government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts
Summary: The leader of South Africas ruling party said former President Nelson Mandela was the glue holding the country together giving voice to longheld fears about the future of the fledgling democracy without him
Summary: Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon camp officials said
Summary: Ten members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party PKK were killed in clashes with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday security sources said on Saturday
Summary: At least nine Indian soldiers were killed and 16 wounded on Saturday when their vehicle detonated a landmine in the biggest attack on Indian soldiers in recent months
Summary: A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a gratuitous unnecessary insult to women and faces tough opposition Sen Hillary Clinton said on Friday
Summary: Pro-gay activists are calling for a boycott against two Southern California hotels after their owner donated $125,000 to support a ballot initiative to protect marriage in the state of California.
Summary: An eternal God does not need to be defended using human violence, said the Archbishop of Canterbury this week in response to a letter by Muslim leaders and scholars. Dr. Rowan Williams was referring to Christian-Muslim relations as he responded to a histo
Summary: Since racial hatred has animated some of the worst atrocities in history, one would think that an opportunity for nations to come together and seek solutions to racial tensions would be welcomed.
Summary: More United Methodists are throwing their support behind clergy in California who want to perform same-sex "marriages" despite the denomination's stance that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching."
Summary: Pope Benedict XVI used some of the strongest language yet in his apology Saturday for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, but his words were just more of the same for the victims.
Summary: The Texas State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to establishing a Bible elective for high schools but left specific class guidelines up to local school districts. Board members voted 10-5 to adopt broad standards for the Bible class.
Summary: The Texas State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to establishing a Bible elective for high schools but left specific class guidelines up to local school districts. Board members voted 10-5 to adopt broad standards for the Bible class.
Summary: Iranian officials ruled out any freeze in uranium enrichment on Saturday at the start of talks over Tehrans nuclear program attended for the first time by a senior US diplomat
Summary: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday on the first leg of a trip aimed at proving his foreign policy credentials that will also take in the Middle East and Europe
Summary: Pope Benedict on Saturday apologised directly for the first time for sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy but victims groups in Australia said they wanted action and not words
Summary: Chinese police arrested a human rights campaigner in the countrys southwest for possession of state secrets after he offered help to parents of children killed in the regions massive earthquake his family said
Summary: Thailand and Cambodia sent troops and heavy guns on Saturday to their disputed border where hundreds of soldiers faced off for a fifth day over an ancient Hindu temple
Summary: Six members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party PKK were killed in a clash with Turkish military forces in southeastern Turkey late on Friday security sources said
Summary: Zimbabwes central bank will introduce new highervalue 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar notes on Monday as part of a desperate fight against spiralling hyperinflation the bank said
Summary: Nepal was set to elect its first president on Saturday from a marginalised ethnic community whose violent demand for a greater say in running the government once threatened a peace deal with Maoist former rebels
Summary: A new round of talks between Iran and world powers over Tehrans nuclear programme will make or break the negotiations a senior Iranian official said on Friday
Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would listen to Irish objections to the EU reform treaty when he visits Dublin next week but that the view of the 23 countries that have adopted the treaty could not be overlooked
Summary: Four people were killed and seven were injured when a massive crane collapsed at LyondellBasells Houston refinery on Friday afternoon a refinery executive said
