AP - Helicopters and a bomber attacked insurgents massing in eastern Afghanistan under cover of darkness, killing an estimated 33 people, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday.

AFP - French diplomat Alain Le Roy was named Monday to succeed Jean-Marie Guehenno as head of the UN department of peacekeeping operations (DPKO), spokeswoman Michele Montas said.

AFP - African Union observers condemned Zimbabwe's one-man election as undemocratic on Monday, intensifying pressure on Robert Mugabe as he faced his peers after a vote much of the world has dismissed as a farce.

Reuters - Anwar Ibrahim, leader of Malaysia's revitalized opposition, left the Turkish embassy on Monday where he had taken refuge following sodomy accusations, the latest thunderbolt in Malaysia's political tempest.

Reuters - A Canadian who accused U.S. authorities of violating his rights and illegally deporting him to Syria where he was tortured lost an appeal on Monday.

Reuters - The United States will spend an additional $1.25 billion on international food aid donations this year and next as donor countries seek to blunt the effects of soaring food prices on the world's poor.

Reuters - Iraq opened its giant oilfields to foreign firms on Monday, putting British and U.S. companies in pole position five years after U.S.-led troops invaded the country to oust Saddam Hussein.

Reuters - Flooding on the Mississippi River has closed the St. Louis harbor to barge traffic, halting commercial traffic at an important junction of several major waterways, said the U.S. Coast Guard.

Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Monday rejected questions about his patriotism even as he drew fire for a supporter's attack on Republican rival John McCain's military record.

Reuters - African leaders on Monday pushed President Robert Mugabe to open talks with the opposition after he was re-elected unopposed in an election condemned as violent and unfair by the continent's own monitors.

AP - Second-seeded Jelena Jankovic and No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova were ousted in the fourth round Monday, leaving Wimbledon without any of the top four women in the quarterfinals for the first time.

AP - New York City officials say Bon Jovi will play at a free concert in Central Park this summer.

AP - A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the veterinarians who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean.