AFP - North Korean soldiers shot dead a tourist from South Korea on Friday, casting a shadow over an offer of talks from the South's new leader to help ease tensions across the world's last Cold War frontier.

AP - A Turkish news agency reported Friday that army troops clashed with Kurdish rebels in the southeast and that 10 of the rebels were killed.

AFP - British paedophiles who abuse children abroad could face charges here from Monday, even if their activities were legal in the country where they took place, the Home Office announced Friday.

AP - Talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament pushed into a second day Friday, with negotiators discussing the communist country's complaint that it has not received most of the energy assistance it was promised in exchange for disabling its weapons program.

AP - She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.

AP - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe are attempting rapprochement after months of sniping that threatened billions of dollars in trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis.

AP - Seeking a way out of their country's political crisis, Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa, with the opposition pressing for an end to attacks on its supporters.

AP - A decade-long drought in Australia's most important crop-growing region is worsening and there is little hope for relief from either saving rains or a new government conservation plan, officials said Thursday.

AP - Negotiators from six nations began Thursday to hash out exactly how they will verify North Korea's declaration of its nuclear materials, the U.S. envoy said.

AFP - Kevin Pietersen marked his first Test innings against South Africa, the land of his birth, with a commanding 104 not out as England regained the initiative here at Lord's on Thursday.

AP - A news agency says police have caught a fugitive gunman wanted in connection with the attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

AFP - Ten teams will compete this December in the first race to the South Pole since pioneers Amundsen and Scott reached the geographic landmark, organisers said Thursday.