BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials have received reports that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed by Sunni tribesmen, but the chief government spokesman said Tuesday the information has not been confirmed.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed travelers on a highway leading from Baghdad to Shiite areas to the south on Tuesday, killing 14 people, while mortar rounds slammed into an area near the Iraqi prime minister's office in the U.S.-controlled Green Zone in the capital, a government official said.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced an onslaught of calls for his resignation and the first cracks in his coalition Tuesday following a government commission's harsh criticism of his handling of Israel's war last summer in Lebanon.
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's highest court met Tuesday to try to decide on an appeal by the main opposition party to cancel the disputed presidential vote amid reports that a legal expert has advised the court to reject it.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish police charged into crowds of leftist protesters marking the anniversary of a deadly May Day rally in Istanbul on Tuesday, spraying tear gas and kicking and clubbing demonstrators as they fled.
LONDON (AFP) - Cot death is still the biggest killer of babies between one month and a year old, one of BritainÂs leading baby charities said Tuesday, announcing findings of a study that showed that anxious parents are concerned they may unwittingly be harming their baby every time they put their child to sleep.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first "baby hatch", where mothers can drop off babies they can't care for, completed a test-run on Tuesday with a doll, clearing the way for the controversial facility to start operating in about a week.
LONDON (Reuters) - Spies in the sky may track motorists in Britain within a decade if the government goes ahead with controversial plans to introduce road user charging schemes, scientists said on Tuesday.
LONDON (AFP) - Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko has been ruled out of Tuesday's Champions League semi-final second leg at Liverpool.
LONDON (Reuters) - When "Sweetgal," a 29-year-old British Muslim from central England, began looking for a new husband last year, at first she didn't know where to turn.
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's government took over Venezuela's last privately run oil fields on Tuesday, intensifying a struggle with international oil firms over one of the world's most lucrative oil deposits.
HAVANA - Hundreds of thousands of cheering workers marched through Cuba's Revolution Plaza on Tuesday but Fidel Castro was nowhere to be seen.
LONDON - A British forensic laboratory said Tuesday it is analyzing toxicology tests done on the slain coach of Pakistan's national cricket team, but has not yet reached any conclusions on whether poison was involved.
BEIJING - China lashed out at the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia on Tuesday for restoring diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as Chinese territory.
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Armed militants killed a Nigerian and kidnapped six foreign oil workers in an attack on an oil industry vessel off Nigeria's coast on Tuesday, security sources and the Italian government said.
LAGOS, Nigeria - Gunmen armed with dynamite seized six foreign workers and killed a Nigerian sailor in an attack on a Chevron Corp. ship in Nigeria's southern oil-producing region, a navy spokesman said.
ROME (Reuters) - Four Italian oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
LAGOS (AFP) - As many as six foreign oil workers were kidnapped Tuesday by unidentified gunmen in an attack on an oil facility off the coast of Nigeria's southern Bayelsa State, a government official said.
UNITED NATIONS - The two sides fighting for control of Western Sahara agreed Monday to hold talks for the first time in 30 years on the sparsely populated territory in North Africa, which the U.S. says is critical to preventing the spread of terrorism.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police beat and detained hundreds of May Day protesters in Istanbul on Tuesday, adding to tension in a country already rocked by a court challenge to the presidential election, army threats and a million-strong march.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon is to hold talks here Tuesday aimed at kickstarting a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with the US which has languished for almost two years.
BEIJING - China lashed out at the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia on Tuesday for restoring diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as Chinese territory.
KABUL (AFP) - Hundreds of people rallied in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Tuesday to protest Iran's expulsion of tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, witnesses said.
KATHMANDU (AFP) - The leader of Nepal's Maoists on Tuesday threatened to launch massive nationwide protests by the end of the month unless parliament immediately ousts the king and declares a republic.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Higher prices for petroleum, coal and primary metals boosted Canadian producer prices for the fifth straight month in March, beating forecasts by a wide margin with a 1.3 percent gain from February, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada was warned of a plot to bomb an Air India jetliner months before the 1985 attack that killed 329 people, but police failed to act on the information, a hearing was told on Monday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lululemon Corp., a retailer of technical athletic apparel in North America, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $230 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Loblaw Cos Ltd. reported a sharp drop in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as Canada's largest supermarket chain was hurt by restructuring charges.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A lawyer for Conrad Black repeatedly shouted down a former board member of the toppled media magnate's newspaper company on Monday, demanding to know how she could have ignored documented references to executives' disputed payments in the sale of newspaper properties.
MELBOURNE, Australia - Police on Tuesday arrested two men accused of raising money for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on the pretext of collecting donations for victims of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two Australian men were arrested and charged on Tuesday with being members of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers and using 2004 Asian tsunami relief funds for terrorist activities, police said.
MELBOURNE (AFP) - Two suspected members of Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebel group were Tuesday arrested in Australia and charged with funnelling money to a terrorist organisation, police said.
DILI (AFP) - East Timor presidential candidate Jose Ramos-Horta was accused Tuesday of manipulating Australian troops in the troubled nation for political advantage.
SYDNEY, Australia - Nine men accused of stockpiling bomb-making chemicals and vowing to avenge perceived injustices against Muslims have been ordered to stand trial for Australia's largest alleged terrorist conspiracy, a court official said Tuesday.
I guess this means he's gunna make a mess on the way out.