STILL ON THE BRINK: At least five people were killed and seven injured in blasts at the country's prestigious military school. This was the fourth attack in five days
A suspected suicide attack on a prestigious naval college in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday killed at least five people, the navy said.

[ FULL STORY ]

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday he will begin his first major overseas trip as Australia's leader this month, including visits to the US and China -- underscoring their importance.

[ FULL STORY ]

A Philippine government inquiry yesterday gave President Gloria Arroyo's husband 21 days to explain his alleged part in a corruption scandal that is heaping pressure on his wife to resign.

[ FULL STORY ]

A Tibetan youth named by China as the 11th Panchen Lama is too young to be a parliament deputy, a spokesman said, quashing speculation he would soon become the country's youngest Cabinet minister-level official.

[ FULL STORY ]

Five people were killed in execution-style shootings in the wealthy Yangon neighborhood where Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest, police said yesterday.

[ FULL STORY ]

OVERWHELMING: An Iranian representative on a visit to Kabul said that the 1.5 million Afghan refugees in Iran who have been there for decades must go home
Tehran said it intends to expel all 1.5 million Afghans who are within its borders illegally, a visiting Iranian official said in Kabul on Monday, even as Afghan authorities said they could not cope with such a high number of returnees.

[ FULL STORY ]

RISKS: The UN chief voiced concern over Hezbollah's threats of open war against Israel and reports that it was expanding its arsenal in spite of a ban on arms transfers
Israel says Hezbollah is rearming and has an arsenal including 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council in a report.

[ FULL STORY ]

NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT: Fourteen of the Security Council's 15 members voted for a third set of sanctions, while Iran blasted the council for being `unjust and irrational'
The UN Security Council on Monday tightened sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt nuclear fuel work as six major powers offered to resume talks with the Islamic Republic to end the standoff.

[ FULL STORY ]

Sudanese troops exchanged fire with foreign troops, who twice strayed across the border from Chad into west Sudan, killing at least one civilian, the foreign ministry said yesterday.

[ FULL STORY ]

Kenyan rivals were to push ahead yesterday with talks on a new deal to share power and tackle root causes of the strife, a day after more than a dozen people were killed in the volatile Rift Valley region.

[ FULL STORY ]

An Iranian women's rights activist was barred from traveling to Sweden to receive a prize for her work, but she vowed on Monday she would continue pushing for equality despite restrictions imposed on women activists.

[ FULL STORY ]

RAMPING UP? : Inside the US, Havana's spy network is believed to be continuing surveillance of military bases and the Cuban exile community, mainly in south Florida
AFP, MIAMI

[ FULL STORY ]

NY Times News Service, NEW YORK

[ FULL STORY ]

Six people were found dead on Monday and three more were critically injured in Memphis in what news reports said was the worst mass killing there in at least 15 years.

[ FULL STORY ]

The commander of US forces in the Middle East says there has been a dramatic decrease of violence in Iraq, but such gains are not irreversible.

[ FULL STORY ]

NAFTA FURORE: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told parliament he was amused by the suggestion `we are so all-powerful' that he could pick the US president
Canada's conservative government on Monday denied allegations it tried to influence the US election by leaking word of a meeting with Barack Obama's senior economic adviser, who allegedly had told Canadian officials that Obama's comments about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were for political show.

[ FULL STORY ]

The presidential spotlight shines on this Midwestern industrial state every four years and for good reason. As Ohio goes, so goes the nation -- at least for the past 44 years.

[ FULL STORY ]

[ FULL STORY ]