AP - A soldier fatally shot a South Korean tourist Friday at a resort in North Korea, prompting the South to suspend a high-profile tourism program just as the president was seeking to repair strained ties with his communist neighbor.

AP - U.N. officials and diplomats said the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday charging Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.

AP - U.S. forces may be close to unlocking the mystery of who is behind a deadly innovation in Iraqi insurgents' weapons, a "lob bomb" now being used in Baghdad to target U.S. and Iraqi combat outposts, a senior American general said Friday in an Associated Press interview.

AP - Thousands of pilgrims converged on Sydney as it braced Friday for the weekend arrival of the pope and the start of World Youth Day, the biggest event held in Australia since the 2000 Olympics.

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.