AP - The United States and Japan are working closely together to tackle soaring oil and food prices, Japan's finance minister said Friday during an international meeting designed to tackle global economic problems.

AP - The Dalai Lama said Thursday that talks with China's government on resolving unrest in Tibet might resume next month, and he urged his supporters not to cause trouble when the Olympic torch is in the Himalayan territory.

AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates invited Pakistan Thursday to join an investigation into an air strike that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers, saying he regretted it had created a problem with a key ally.

AFP - OPEC's acting president Chakib Khelil on Thursday ruled out an increase in production by the oil exporting group despite pressure on the cartel to help rein in record crude prices.

AP - A lawyer for Osama bin Laden's former driver said Thursday he would try to stop the first scheduled war-crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay now that the Supreme Court says detainees have constitutional rights.

AFP - Andy Murray played through the pain barrier to reach the quarter-finals at Queen's Club with a gutsy 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Ernests Gulbis on Thursday.

AP - The shy, young deer nicknamed "Unicorn" because of the rare, single horn in the center of his head is drawing hundreds of curious visitors, park officials said Thursday.

AP - An explosion flattened a house in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven people. After blaming Israel and unleashing a barrage of rockets and mortars, Hamas suggested the blast was accidental, not an Israeli attack.

AP - Police cordoned off quake-hit schools and towns Thursday in an apparent attempt to quell protests by parents angry that probes of shoddy school construction have not begun a month after the disaster.

AP - President Bush on Thursday strongly disagreed with a Supreme Court ruling that clears foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. Bush suggested new legislation may now be needed to keep the American people safe.

AP - President Robert Mugabe's regime struck at the opposition leadership Thursday only two weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election, twice detaining his challenger and jailing the No. 2 opposition official to face treason charges.

AFP - China warned Australia Thursday not to allow the exiled Dalai Lama to carry out separatist activities on its territory, despite the Tibetan spiritual leader's stated opposition to an independent Tibet.

AFP - Police on Thursday kicked foreign journalists out of a city where the collapse of several schools in China's earthquake drew charges of corruption from parents of dead children.

Reuters - Western donors have failed to condemn war crimes by Ethiopian forces during a year-old campaign against separatist fighters in the country's eastern Ogaden region, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.