AP - A female suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.

AP - Saudi Arabia is willing to produce more oil if customers need it, the kingdom's oil minister said Sunday without citing any specific output increase.

AFP - Australia's new government has vowed to maintain a controversial policy aimed at protecting Aboriginal children in remote settlements, a year after police and troops were sent into the camps.

AFP - Police and protesters clashed at an anti-US beef rally here Sunday as Seoul's announcement on extra health safeguards failed to immediately calm South Koreans' fears over mad cow disease.

AP - Militants from Zimbabwe's ruling party have occupied the site of the opposition party's main pre-election rally.

AP - Mexico City's mayor expressed outrage Saturday that youths as young as 13 were among the dozen people killed in a nightclub stampede and said the officials involved in the police raid that sparked the crush had been suspended.

AP - Israel was set to increase the number of trucks bringing badly needed supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a truce with Hamas militants entered its fourth day, a military spokesman said.

AFP - A homeless Uganda-born man was on Saturday charged with murdering a Swedish woman whose body was found next to a road in Cambridgeshire, police said.

AP - The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up — not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America's role across the region is on the line.

AP - NATO forces returned fire across the Afghan border at attackers in Pakistan, officials said Sunday, an incident that could stir tension between Washington and Islamabad over the response to militants in the lawless border region.

AP - North Korea has invited foreign television stations to broadcast its planned destruction of a key facility at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator said Sunday.

AP - U.N. nuclear sleuths probing allegations that Syria is hiding secret atomic activities expressed hope Sunday that a trip to Damascus will be the start of a thorough investigation into the accusations.

AP - A rescue ship battling huge waves and strong winds on Sunday reached a passenger ferry that capsized in Typhoon Fengshen, but found none of the more than 700 people who were on board. The storm has submerged entire communities in the Philippines and left at least 80 people dead.

AFP - One man was killed after small bombs were hurled at people protesting the controversial construction of South Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in eastern India, officials said Saturday.