AP - Moshe Sasson felt the gun pressed against his head, a Lebanese assailant poised to shoot, when the lights in the hall of his apartment building suddenly went out, allowing him to escape and take cover under a car.

AP - Scattered sandals and overturned bicycles were all that remained hours after suicide bombers struck the Saad military camp.

AP - A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging for help in a video released Tuesday that provided the first glimpse of interrogations at the U.S. military prison.

Reuters - Indonesia and East Timor expressed regret on Tuesday for violence surrounding Dili's 1999 independence vote after a joint probe blamed state institutions for "gross human rights violations."

AP - Fishermen across Japan went on a massive one-day strike Tuesday to protest skyrocketing fuel prices, the latest blow to the country's foundering fishing industry.

AP - China said Tuesday it was concerned about an International Criminal Court prosecutor's decision to seek an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of genocide in the African country's war-torn Darfur region.

AP - White-capped storm surf thundered against beaches and high winds knocked out power to thousands of Bermudians on Monday as Tropical Storm Bertha swept over the Atlantic tourist island before heading back out over open ocean.

AFP - Barcelona has received a 25 million pound (32-million-euro) offer for two-time world player of the year Ronaldinho from Manchester City, the Spanish club's president Joan Laporta has said.

AP - Iyathigewewa is a classic company town. But the youth don't head off to work in the local mine or factory — they go to war.

AP - Tens of thousands of Catholic pilgrims from around the world crammed into an area along Sydney Harbor Tuesday, waving flags of their home countries and singing as they awaited a Mass opening the World Youth Day festival.

AP - Israel's Cabinet began final deliberations Tuesday on whether to trade a Lebanese militant convicted of killing three people for two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah guerrillas and believed to be dead.

AP - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of army recruits Tuesday in a former al-Qaida in Iraq stronghold northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 28 people, Iraqi police said.

AP - Pilgrims bore a giant wooden cross through the streets of Australia's largest city Monday, as thousands of faithful crowded around the procession, some lunging for a chance to touch the symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's youth festival.