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[/url]AP - Keith Richards has been released from a New Zealand hospital where the Rolling Stones guitarist was admitted with a head injury after he reportedly fell out of a palm tree. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A boyish Army recruit sits quietly in a plastic chair at Fort Knox and shields a wince from the stern gaze of a drill instructor while a nurse digs with a needle for a vein in his arm. Link To Original Article
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AP - A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The first Australian soldier killed on active duty in Iraq was buried with full military honors on Tuesday amid confusion over the cause of death and a bungle which saw the wrong body initially sent home from Baghdad. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The Clippers have done their part, ending a 30-year drought in the process. Now, it's up to the Lakers to set up an unprecedented playoff matchup between the Los Angeles rivals. Cuttino Mobley and Corey Maggette each scored 23 points, Elton Brand added 21 points and 13 rebounds, and the Clippers took command in the third quarter to beat the Denver Nuggets 101-83 Monday night and win the first-round best-of-seven Western Conference series 4-1. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the longest-serving leader in postwar Italy, resigned Tuesday to make way for a center-left government led by Romano Prodi that must re-energize a moribund economy. Link To Original Article
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AP - Despite large-scale U.S. support, Iraq and Afghanistan rank among the world's 10 most vulnerable states, according to a private survey being released Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Iran will target Israel first if the United States does anything "evil," a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been detained in neighboring Pakistan and possibly handed over to American authorities, according to a U.S. law enforcement official. Link To Original Article
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AP - Two men who ran exporting businesses in Connecticut and New York have been indicted on federal charges that they participated in a scheme with China to sell telecommunications equipment to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Senior U.S. and British officials increased pressure on the warring parties from Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday to strike a peace deal before a midnight deadline to end the devastating three-year conflict. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Iran has discovered new deposits of uranium and was continuing its nuclear enrichment program despite international protests, a top Iranian nuclear official said Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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AP - Portions of a new Kentucky law intended to prevent protesters from disrupting funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq are unconstitutional, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed Monday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 100 insurgents last week in the town of Ramadi in the rebel heartland of Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Iraq's parliament speaker said in a nationally televised speech Tuesday that the new government's top priority will be ending widespread bloodshed in cities such as Baghdad. But insurgents launched new attacks, killing at least seven Iraqis and a U.S. soldier. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Japan will withdraw its non-combat troops deployed in southern Iraq at the same time that British and Australian troops are pulled out, a news report said Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Russia and China have told Tehran they will not support sanctions or military action over the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme, Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday, before talks between major powers in France. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas after visiting Washington later this month, a senior Israeli government official said Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The U.S. military said on Monday it had every confidence in the new Iraqi army it is training, after hundreds of Sunni Arab recruits joined a protest at a graduation parade that bordered on mutiny. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh appealed for the first time on Tuesday to militants not to launch attacks against border crossings needed to bring vital humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip. Link To Original Article
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