AP - Russian forces pulled back Saturday from the center of a town not far from Georgia's capital after Russia's president signed a cease-fire deal, but other troops stayed put despite U.S. pressure for Moscow to honor the agreement.
AFP - Zimbabwe's main political rivals were in South Africa on Saturday for a regional summit with negotiators expected to aim for a resolution to the country's political crisis.
AFP - Georgia signed a ceasefire agreement seeking to end its conflict with Russia, whose forces still occupied parts of Georgian territory, as the United States demanded their immediate departure.
Reuters - Pakistan's ruling coalition has
prepared impeachment charges against President Pervez Musharraf
focusing on violation of the constitution and misconduct, a
coalition official said on Saturday.
Reuters - A man who passed himself off as a member
of New York's Rockefeller oil dynasty is really a German who
conned his way into U.S. high society, federal investigators
said on Friday.
Reuters - A top Russian general on Friday said
Poland's deal with the United States to set up parts of a
missile defense shield on Polish territory lays it open to a
possible military strike, a Russian news agency reported.
Reuters - A Texas school district will let
teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's
superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to
be a first in the United States.
Reuters - A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an
anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative accused in
Cuba of a 1976 plane bombing that killed 73 people should stand
trial for an immigration violation, court records showed on
Friday.
Reuters - Michael Phelps equaled fellow American
swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven golds in one Olympics
on Saturday after coming from behind for a fingertip victory.
AP - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it may be.
AP - For nearly a decade, Andrew Young was John Edwards' loyal foot soldier as Edwards rocketed from millionaire trial lawyer to U.S. senator to two-time White House hopeful.