AP - A wildfire that has burned 30,000 acres in eastern North Carolina may smolder for months as it burns decayed vegetation that makes up the soil in the area, North Carolina Forest Service spokesman Bill Swartley said Saturday.

AP - Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.

AP - A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.

AFP - Police forced Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll, his party said after he was detained for the second time in a week.

AFP - A dam blocking a dangerously swollen "quake lake" which is threatening to engulf 1.3 million people in southwest China, is in no danger of imminent collapse, state media said Saturday, as workers began to drain the water.

Reuters - The Belmont Stakes is a proven graveyard for Triple Crown contenders but Big Brown's trainer said on Friday he was convinced the punishing distance would have no effect on his unbeaten and still untested colt.

Reuters - The U.S. unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May, its highest in more than 3-1/2 years, as the barely growing economy lost jobs for the fifth straight month.

Reuters - Energy Secretary Sam Bodman called on Saturday for more countries to scrap fuel price subsidies that stoke oil demand, adding that more regulation of energy markets was not the solution to record prices.

Reuters - As Barack Obama basks in his historic accomplishment as the first black U.S. presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton ends her groundbreaking effort as the first woman to go as far as she did in the quest for the White House.

AP - Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and more record gas prices by the Fourth of July.

AP - President Bush is considering new measures to help stimulate the battered economy, the White House said Friday as unemployment and oil prices soared and Wall Street sank. White House counselor Ed Gillespie said Bush's advisers are constantly looking at options for new economic proposals.