The US condemned the coup but finds itself defending a president allied with leftist critics such as UN General Assembly president d'Escoto and Venezuela's Chávez.
A 2002 will by Michael Jackson filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday could lead to conflicts between the family and the executors named in the will.
Diplomats said that the European Union is considering pulling out all 27 ambassadors in a dispute over Iran’s detention of local personnel from the British Embassy.
AP - Michael Jackson's 7-year-old will was filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust and cutting out his former wife Debbie Rowe.
AP - Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts. California failed to meet a midnight deadline and now may need to issue IOUs instead of paying bills.
A lawyer filed Michael Jackson's will with the Los Angeles County Superior Court this morning, a court official said. Jackson placed his estate in a trust and nominated his mother as guardian of his children.
Iran's government was accused of blocking publication of a reformist party's newspaper Wednesday to prevent it publishing a letter from a presidential candidate questioning the legitimacy of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in last month's election.
A French teenager was recovering in hospital Wednesday, one day after she survived a plane crash off the Comoros islands in which 152 other people are feared to have died.