AP - Officials say a roadside bomb attack on a British convoy in Basra has injured an Iraqi civilian.

AP - The Taliban are unusually angry about the latest suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, a sign a top militant may have died in the attack, officials and residents said Sunday amid reports the death toll rose by two to 24.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

AFP - Indian police have arrested a Muslim man in connection with a bomb blast in the west of the country that killed seven people and wounded more than 80, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday.

AFP - Ethiopia, which subsidises petrol, has raised prices by more than five percent and public transport fares accordingly, the government said in a statement received by AFP on Saturday.

AP - Hurricane Marie hovered far off Mexico's Pacific coast Saturday, barely moving on its northwestern path.

AP - The U.S. military says an American helicopter has gone down in Baghdad but it has no immediate information on casualties.

AFP - Manchester United maintained the pressure on English Premier League leaders Chelsea and Liverpool on Saturday as Arsenal avoided another embarrassing defeat.

AP - Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits.

AP - Fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkey's army and air force in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq killed 15 soldiers and at least 23 insurgents, the military said Saturday, in the deadliest battle between them in eight months.

AP - Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of covertly supplying at least half a dozen Mideast countries with nuclear technology or conventional arms.

AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il watched a university soccer game, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday, reporting on the leader's first public appearance in nearly two months.

AFP - Thousands of people blocked traffic in eastern India on Saturday to protest at the scrapping of a Tata Motors factory to make the world's cheapest car, a move trade groups said could hurt investment.

AP - Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two international aid groups said Friday after Islamic insurgents forced one to suspend some operations and threatened the other.