AFP - South Korea won what could be the last Olympic baseball gold medal on Saturday, dethroning three-time champions Cuba 3-2 in a dramatic final.

AFP - Australia have beaten South Africa 27-15 to stay well in the hunt for this year's Tri-Nations rugby title.

AFP - Three days after the Madrid air disaster, distraught families of most of the victims were still desperately waiting for their loved ones to be identified Saturday so they can hold funeral services.

AP - A woman who survived this week's devastating plane crash in Madrid said Saturday the aircraft struggled to gain altitude and one of its wings dipped sharply before the plane started wobbling and went down.

AP - Scores of Afghan civilians who had gathered in a small village for the memorial ceremony of a militia commander were killed when U.S. and Afghan soldiers launched an attack in the middle of the night, officials and villagers said Saturday.

AP - Pakistan's ruling coalition teetered on the brink of collapse Saturday as the two main partners squabbled over a successor to ousted President Pervez Musharraf.

AP - PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Some of the women were eating lunch, while others were busy making bread.

AP - Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a top Russian general said his country's forces would keep patrolling the area.

Reuters - Pakistani troops killed 35 militants in fighting in the Swat Valley northwest of Islamabad on Saturday, shortly after a suicide car-bomber killed eight policemen.

AP - The U.S. drug czar appealed to Venezuela's government on Friday to take action against the flourishing flow of cocaine being smuggled through the country.

AP - As of Friday, Aug. 22, 2008, at least 4,146 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.