AP - Republican John McCain planned to tour a Colombian port by boat Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the country's drug interdiction programs, a day after he praised President Alvaro Uribe for Colombia's anti-drug efforts but pressed him to improve the government's record on human rights.

AP - As crude soared to a new record, the head of the International Energy Agency declared that the world was in the grip of an "oil shock," and the president of OPEC acknowledged he could not say whether prices would flatten out or continue to soar.

AP - Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside of a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night.

AFP - France's presidency of the European Union got off to a rocky start Tuesday with Poland baulking at a key treaty and President Nicolas Sarkozy in a public spat with European trade chief Peter Mandelson.

AFP - An African Union summit on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for dialogue between Zimbabwe's political foes and a national unity government following President Robert Mugabe's widely discredited reelection.

Reuters - Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday he was shelving plans to contest a parliamentary by-election due to a "political conspiracy" behind a young aide's accusation of homosexual assault.

Reuters - Al Qaeda's growing north Africa network plans to attack U.S. interests seeking control of the region's energy riches, its Algerian-based leader said in remarks published on Tuesday.

Reuters - Portuguese police have sent their final report on the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann to public prosecutors, who will decide whether to take any further steps, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday criticized reported comments by a senior defense official who said there was an increasing likelihood Israel would attack Iran over its nuclear program.

Reuters - Trade, drugs and immigration will top the agenda of U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain during a visit to Colombia and Mexico this week designed to showcase his foreign policy experience over that of Democratic rival Barack Obama.

Reuters - The latest U.S. natural disaster is triggering fresh rounds of concern and debate about how to repair America's aging infrastructure.

Reuters - Chances of a Democratic "dream team" with U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama picking former rival Hillary Clinton as his running mate are increasingly unlikely, traders on the prediction markets are betting.

Reuters - The African Union called on Tuesday for a national unity government in Zimbabwe after the widely-condemned re-election of President Robert Mugabe in a poll scarred by violence.

AP - The Williams sisters moved closer to another Wimbledon final Tuesday, using their power tennis to cruise into the semifinals in straight sets. Defending champion and four-time winner Venus Williams beat Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 6-3, and two-time champ Serena swept 19-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 6-0.