AP - Coalition warplanes swooped down on militants withdrawing from a firefight with police into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 of them, officials said.

AP - South Korea's president spoke out Tuesday against the protests that have rattled his administration, saying the government would not tolerate any illegal, violent demonstrations against the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports.

AP - Divers wriggled into an upside-down ferry Tuesday and found bodies but no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.

AP - An explosion apparently targeting U.S. troops struck a local council building Tuesday in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district, killing at least two Iraqi civilians, police and witnesses said.

AP - Outraged at the turmoil in Zimbabwe, the U.N. Security Council declared that a fair presidential vote is impossible because of the "campaign of violence" waged by President Robert Mugabe's government.

AFP - Australia must strengthen its relationship with India, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Monday as he repeated his government's decision to refuse to sell uranium to the south Asian power.

AFP - The 80-nation International Whaling Commission began meeting in Chile Monday to debate whether to lift a 22-year-old ban on commercial whale-hunting.

AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told CNN that the international community should declare presidential elections "null and void" and organize a new vote.

AP - The rusty fence may divide the beaches of U.S. and Mexico, but it can't break up a yoga class.

AFP - The European Union officially lifted its sanctions against Cuba, the Slovenian presidency of the bloc said Monday, in the hope of encouraging democracy on the island in the post-Fidel Castro era.

AP - An American soldier was killed and five others wounded Monday when they came under fire southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Witnesses and local police said the Americans were ambushed after a meeting with Iraqi municipal officials.

AP - European Union nations approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank.

AP - Men and women can openly study and party together for the first time in years at Basra University, free from the threat of Shiite gunmen enforcing extreme Islamic views.