AFP - Manchester United hope to win the race for Welsh starlet Aaron Ramsey after agreeing a fee for the Cardiff midfielder.

AP - Syria's president said he was willing to hold direct peace talks with Israel in the future under U.S. sponsorship, laying out his vision of how negotiations could progress.

AP - More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and the military junta's policies are hindering relief efforts and driving up the cost of aid operations, the United Nations said Tuesday.

AP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe defended land policies blamed for devastating his country's agricultural sector, asserting at a U.N. food summit Tuesday that the West was trying to cripple the nation's economy.

AP - A proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement is shaping up as a major political battle between America and Iran, as the debate over the future of troops here intensifies ahead of the fall U.S. presidential election.

AFP - US General David McKiernan on Tuesday took command of 52,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan, vowing to deal with "insurgents, foreign fighters, criminals and others" who stood in the way of stability.

Reuters - The African Union and United Nations are working to appoint a joint chief mediator to jumpstart efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region, U.N. Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson said on Monday.

AP - A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others.

AP - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vows that his country will continue with its nuclear program, but says that he rejects nuclear weapons.

AFP - International Development Minister Douglas Alexander vowed Tuesday to snub Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe at a world food summit in Rome, calling his participation "obscene."

AP - A panel of auditors said Monday it found no evidence that a U.N. anti-poverty program in North Korea knew of any counterfeiting, money laundering or other improper financial dealings linked to U.N. money.

AP - Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake.

AP - World leaders meeting at a U.N. summit Tuesday will try to figure out how to head off skyrocketing food prices before millions more join the multitudes across the globe who already lack enough to eat.