AFP - Brazilian authorities have discovered the head and arms of a British teenager murdered and dismembered over a week ago, allegedly by her drug-addict ex-boyfriend.

AP - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, the first deadly attack against American troops in the capital in nearly a month.

AP - The Olympic torch's final parade in homage to victims of China's earthquake was run Tuesday after the route was changed amid worries about security in a region where Tibetan protests erupted earlier this year.

AP - A Pentagon jury was weighing a verdict for Osama bin Laden's former driver and alleged bodyguard as the U.S. neared completion Tuesday of its first war crimes trial since World War II.

AP - Helicopter pilots were waiting for thick clouds to clear Tuesday before attempting to rescue an Italian mountaineer who continued his descent of K2 after he survived an avalanche and exposure that left 11 other climbers presumed dead.

AP - Police tightened security in China's western Xinjiang region Tuesday and Olympic organizers sought to reassure residents and visitors after a deadly attack on police heightened jitters just days ahead of the games' opening ceremony.

AFP - Australia's biggest ports and rail operator Asciano Group on Monday rejected a 2.9 billion Australian (2.7 billion US) dollar takeover bid, saying it undervalued the company.

AP - A massive new U.S. Embassy, the second-largest in the world after the heavily fortified compound in Baghdad, formally opens in the Chinese capital this week, a testament to the depth and breadth of the ties binding the trading partners and sometimes rivals.

AP - The man expected to become South Africa's next president pressed Monday for the dismissal of corruption and fraud charges against him in a case testing the strength of the country's democracy and political stability.

AP - Olga Arellano sobs as she recalls how her HIV-positive daughter spent two months succumbing to infections in a U.S. migrant detention center, complaining that she didn't see a doctor or get the right medicine.

AP - President Bush held off on visiting Seoul earlier this year when protesters held nightly candlelight vigils and clashed with riot police in anger over government plans to resume imports of American beef.

AP - Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives — including his wife and daughter — were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people.

AP - When Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" appeared in the thick monthly literary magazine Novy Mir back in November of 1962, taboos were shattered. Buried secrets were unearthed. And the Soviet Union was shaken to its foundations.