AP - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.

AP - U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of thousands are stranded in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna.

AP - The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath a large, leafy tree in rural eastern Nangarhar province. When Malik Mohammed speaks on their behalf, his voice is soft but his words are harsh. Mohammed makes it clear that the tribal chiefs have lost all faith in both their own government and the foreign soldiers in their country.

AP - The likely next president of unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan following Saturday's election is a horse-loving aristocrat who has spent more years in prison than in politics ? a novice leader lifted to prominence by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her murder.

AP - Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear behind the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security.

AFP - Tony Blair is the only senior figure from the Labour Party who could revive its fortunes, according to a poll released Saturday.

AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.

AP - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm on Friday, prompting an exodus of tourists and even longtime residents from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.

AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beijing Saturday for a one-day visit, an Iranian embassy spokesman said, hours before the Paralympic Games were due to begin.

AFP - Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy.