AP - Matucana's mayor is a worried man. The Shining Path rebels who terrorized Peru decades ago are back, moving across the jungle-draped slopes near his remote village and recruiting young fighters to their born-again insurgency.

AP - With a sunny sky as the perfect backdrop, astronauts climbed aboard space shuttle Discovery on Saturday for a late afternoon launch to the international space station.

AP - Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.

AP - Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep in the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the news media are there, breathlessly awaiting his every word.

AP - Supporters for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton staked out competing positions Saturday as Democrats searched for a compromise to seat disputed convention delegations from Florida and Michigan and clear the way for a smooth end to the marathon struggle for the presidential nomination.

AFP - CIA director Michael Hayden has come under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

AFP - China was poised Saturday to dynamite a dangerous "quake lake" to drain its waters as 1.3 million people nearby were kept on alert for possible evacuation.

Reuters - The United States and Libya have agreed to try to resolve compensation claims from the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and other incidents Washington views as acts of terrorism by Libya, the State Department said on Friday.

Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama squabbled with Republican John McCain on Friday over the number of U.S. troops in Iraq in the latest disagreement between the two likely presidential nominees over the unpopular war.

Reuters - China has evacuated over 197,000 people from an area that risks flooding by landslide- blocked rivers near the epicenter of this month's earthquake in Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Reuters - A large crane collapsed in New York City on Friday, killing two people and damaging an apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side -- a day after city officials investigated the crane's operations.

Reuters - Myanmar must stop forcing cyclone survivors to return to their shattered homes where they face more misery or even death, rights groups said on Saturday, as a U.S. official accused the junta of being "deaf and dumb" to foreign aid pleas.

Reuters - North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its west coast on Friday, the South's Yonhap news agency cited government officials as saying, on a day Pyongyang's media also launched a tirade of abuse at President Lee Myung-bak.

Reuters - A deal to return home more than 400 children taken from a polygamist ranch in Texas was delayed on Friday after a judge refused to approve the tentative agreement, saying all parties had not agreed to terms of the pact.