Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai announced that his party will boycott meetings with President Mugabe's ZANU-PF party until they resolve their differences. Mugabe foe Bennett was released from jail on bail today after being detained Wednesday.
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who made a controversial film about Islam, won his appeal against a British ban imposed to stop him from spreading hatred and violent messages.
A Times reporter, David Rohde, and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008 and held for seven months in Pakistan. This is the first installment in a five-part series offering his account.
Pakistan moved troops into the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan in a long-anticipated ground offensive against the Qaeda-backed militants in treacherous terrain.
AP - Deputies searched the home of a couple caught up in Colorado's "balloon boy" saga Saturday night after the sheriff said he was pursuing criminal charges in a case that at first sparked fear for the child, then relief he was okay, to suspicions of a hoax.
AP - A Minnesota woman who was hospitalized with damage to multiple organs after she was overcome in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony died Saturday, sheriff's officials said.
A justice of the peace in Louisiana who has drawn widespread criticism for refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple says he has no regrets about his decision. "It's kind of hard to apologize for something that you really and truly feel down in your heart you haven't done wrong," Keith Bardwell told CNN affiliate WAFB on Saturday.
Authorities in Colorado say criminal charges are expected to be filed in the case of a man whose homemade balloon ascended into the sky earlier this week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old was aboard. "We anticipate criminal charges will be filed ... in the near future," Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said.
More than 3,000 troops scheduled to deploy to Iraq won't be sent, as the U.S. tries to draw down troop levels there, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday. "[The cancellation] reflects a thorough assessment of the security environment in Iraq and continued improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to safeguard Iraqi citizens and institutions," Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh told CNN.
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