AP - As of Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

AFP - The international military mission in Afghanistan has "no end point", the head of Britain's armed forces told a newspaper on Saturday.

AP - Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan.

AP - Turkish warplanes and artillery bombed dozens of Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq following an escalation in rebel attacks, the military said Saturday

AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

AP - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58.

AP - The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt by the administration to salvage a nuclear deal with Pyongyang before President Bush's term ends.

AFP - The forty couples may have already tied the knot at home but, for these young Chinese, getting married in France was a dream come true.

AFP - The African Union announced Friday it is sending a peace mission to Chad to try to ease long-running tensions between Ndjamena and neighbouring Sudan.

AP - The Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.

AP - There's no doubt what Vladimir Putin's favorite birthday present is this year — a rare Ussuri tiger cub.

AP - U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan's northwest near Afghanistan are undermining the war on terror and "helping the terrorists," the Muslim nation's Foreign Ministry said Friday.

AP - Police dispersed hundreds of Jewish protesters with water canons Friday in this northern Israel city, trying to ease tensions after two days of rioting that shook a mixed Jewish-Arab community.

AP - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.