AP - A militant group that claimed to be behind the deadly Marriott Hotel bombing in Pakistan's capital threatened more attacks Wednesday, warning again that Pakistanis should stop cooperating with the United States.
AP - Iraq's parliament overwhelmingly approved a provincial elections law Wednesday, overcoming months of deadlock and giving a boost to U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts.
AP - The government pledged Wednesday to tighten Finland's gun laws and keep mentally unstable people from obtaining firearms following the country's second school massacre in less than a year.
AP - North Korea barred U.N. nuclear inspectors from its main plutonium reprocessing plant Wednesday and within a week plans to reactivate the facility that once provided the fissile material for its atomic test explosion, a senior U.N. nuclear inspector said.
AFP - Asian economic growth will slow at some point but demand for raw materials from countries such as China is expected to continue, the chairman of the world's largest mining company said Wednesday.
Reuters - China has brought a tainted milk scandal in which thousands of children fell ill with kidney stones under control, a senior official said on Wednesday, as Premier Wen Jiabao vowed tougher controls.
The Christian Science Monitor - Slower growth in Asia. Weaker currencies in Turkey and South Africa. Austerity in parts of Eastern Europe. Rising inflation in India. More defaults on loans by companies in Russia and Ukraine. -- read full article
AP - Mexico's government plans to search 10 percent of all vehicles entering the country from the United States in an effort to curb arms smuggling, the attorney general said Tuesday. -- read full article
AP - As of Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, at least 4,170 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
AP - China on Wednesday pledged strong action in dealing with the widening scandal over tainted milk and issued an apology to consumers in Taiwan as an increasing number of countries boosted testing of Chinese food imports.
AP - The Pakistani army said Wednesday it found the wreckage of a suspected U.S. spy plane near the Afghan border, but blamed a malfunction — not ground fire — for the crash.
