AP - Two suicide car bombs exploded in a central Baghdad square Saturday, killing 22 people, including two American contract workers, as Iraqi political leaders agreed on candidates for the remaining five Cabinet vacancies.
AP - President Bush said Saturday the Soviet domination of central and eastern Europe after World War II will be remembered as "one of the greatest wrongs of history" and acknowledged that the United States played a significant role in the division of the continent.
AP - Asian and European nations urged North Korea on Saturday to return immediately to nuclear disarmament talks as concerns grew that the communist state was preparing to test an atomic bomb.
4pm: David Trimble will resign as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, after an election which has left the party with only one seat in the House of Commons.
President Bush today praised democracies in three ex-Soviet republics, saying America will never forget the communist era they endured for decades. "We recognize your painful history," Bush said after meeting with the leaders of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
Three bombs exploded within an hour of each other at two shopping centers and a trade exhibition in the Myanmar capital Yangon on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding 162 others.
The U.S. intelligence community is monitoring what appears to be preparations by North Korea to conduct a nuclear test, a Defense Department official told CNN Friday. But the official strongly emphasized that it is unclear whether the activity is real or deceptive. Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, told CNN, "I would hope that every country right now, every leader, is on the phone with Kim Jong Il, trying to convince him to restrain from going ahead with this reported nuclear testing."