AP - Benazir Bhutto's widower swept Pakistan's presidential election on Saturday, offering hope for stability to a nuclear-armed country feeling intense U.S. pressure to crack down on Islamic militants.

AP - Authorities fear that the death toll in the flooded city of Gonaives could rise into the hundreds as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups rush food and water to tens of thousands left hungry by Tropical Storm Hanna.

AFP - Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy.

AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government building in southwestern Afghanistan Saturday, killing a senior state prosecutor and two other people, a provincial governor said.

AP - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.

AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the war in the Georgian region of South Ossetia show Russia is a "nation to be reckoned with."

AP - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm Saturday, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

AP - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people.

AP - Police say at least 12 people are dead after a suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest.

AP - Lawmakers were casting their votes Saturday in Pakistan's presidential election, a race where the favorite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-U.S. widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

AFP - Lawyer, academic, women's activist and grandmother Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's governor general Friday, the first woman to act as the British queen's representative Down Under.

AFP - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is threatening legal proceedings against Norwegian telecom operator Telenor to force it to transform their joint Bangladeshi subsidiary into a "social business" aimed at helping the poor.