AFP - A Nigerian rebel group said Tuesday it had blown up and destroyed a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline in the latest attack in its "oil war" on western firms.

AP - South American presidents agreed Monday to work urgently to prevent a political collapse in Bolivia, where the government said it would charge a rebellious governor with genocide for allegedly ordering the machine-gunning of peasants.

AFP - The Bank of England on Tuesday injected 20 billion pounds into money markets, four times the amount it had offered Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

AP - David Petraeus, the American general who presided over Iraq's pullback from the brink of all-out civil war, relinquished his command Tuesday to Gen. Ray Odierno under a cascade of official thank-yous.

AP - The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has announced the collapse of the pro-Western governing coalition.

AP - South America's presidents converged on Chile for an emergency summit Monday aimed at preventing the collapse of Bolivia, whose leftist president has lost control of about half the country and said bloody unrest there amounts to an attempted coup.

AFP - German flag carrier Lufthansa could be a partner for a restructured Alitalia, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Monday as talks continued with unions on saving the near bankrupt airline.