AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she is looking forward to further improvements in ties with Libya after Congress passed legislation paving the way for Tripoli to compensate US terrorism victims.

AP - The Brazilian man accused of killing and dismembering a British teenager and stuffing her torso in a suitcase confessed to the murder on Friday in a deposition to police, his lawyer said.

AP - Just months after Americans repaired a sewage treatment plant in southern Baghdad, insurgents attacked the facility and killed the manager. Looters took care of the rest.

AFP - India's Supreme Court has barred two Britons acquitted on charges of sexually abusing boys at shelters for the homeless from leaving the country, reports said Saturday.

AP - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda renewed his promise to tackle reforms and address consumer concerns about rising prices Saturday as his new Cabinet held its first meeting after a shake-up intended to regain voter support.

AP - Zimbabweans dug out coins squirreled away years ago in jars and cupboards and headed for the shops, where lines built up as overburdened tellers more accustomed to counting mounds of hyper-inflated dollar notes instead were juggling silver.

AP - Australia has resettled about 400 Iraqis and their relatives who were at risk for helping Australian troops and diplomats in their troubled homeland, officials said Friday.

Reuters - The Bush administration said on Friday the U.N. nuclear watchdog's approval of an inspection plan for India's civilian atomic power plants would advance its efforts to have Congress consider a U.S.-India nuclear accord this year.

AFP - South Africa is to close camps set up around Johannesburg and Cape Town for thousands of foreigners displaced in May anti-immigrant attacks, officials said Friday.

AFP - Families of the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings unveiled plans on Friday for a memorial of stainless steel pillars representing each of the 52 innocent victims.

AP - In a matter of days, hundreds of thousands of visitors from more than 100 countries will flood into China's capital, where non-Chinese faces are still a rarity in some neighborhoods.