AP - Oil up the Winged Wheel, it's time for another victory parade. Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup — again.

AP - A strong aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday, as rising water levels in a lake caused by landslides in the massive May 12 temblor forced evacuations from downstream areas.

AP - The military expects a confrontational hearing when the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and four alleged confederates are brought before a Marine colonel presiding over their war-crimes tribunal.

AP - When the Army began building incinerators to destroy tons of deadly chemical weapons, many feared the worst.

AP - Her path to the nomination inevitable no more, Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to announce she is ending her groundbreaking candidacy and supporting Barack Obama, her rival in a presidential quest for the ages.

AFP - Zimbabwe authorities intensified a pre-election crackdown on Wednesday, detaining the opposition leader over accusations he had addressed a rally without authorisation and ordering charities to stop work.

AFP - Hillary Clinton Wednesday took a significant step towards healing the rift with her victorious Democratic rival Barack Obama, while stopping short of formally abandoning her own presidential bid.

Reuters - Anguished Chinese parents said on Wednesday they will press ahead with complaints against officials they blame for schools that toppled in a devastating earthquake, a day after police sought to silence one protest.

Reuters - A U.N. summit on the global food crisis asked rich nations on Wednesday to help revolutionize farming in Africa and the developing world to produce more food for nearly 1 billion people facing hunger.

Reuters - U.S. warships will soon leave waters near Myanmar after the ruling military junta refused permission for the delivery of aid supplies to the cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta, a top U.S. commander said on Wednesday.

Reuters - California's Supreme Court gave the final green light on Wednesday for gay marriages to begin later this month, turning down requests for a delay.

Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained on Wednesday as he campaigned for a presidential election run-off, his party said.

Reuters - Developing nations joined the West on Wednesday in throwing their weight behind the U.N. nuclear watchdog's attempt to get Iran to clarify intelligence alleging that it secretly researched ways of making atom bombs.

Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John McCain proposed on Wednesday that Democrat Barack Obama join him in at least 10 face-to-face encounters at town hall meetings this summer.

Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama turned on Wednesday to unifying a fractured party for a historic five-month battle for the White House against Republican John McCain, but Hillary Clinton offered no hints of her future plans.