President Bush extended a law that could give some of the thousands of interpreters working for the American military refuge in the US under a special visa program.
The United Nations Security Council issued a sweeping condemnation of the violence gripping Zimbabwe after the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, took refuge at the Dutch Embassy.
The American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ammunition being shipped to Afghanistan, a military attaché told investigators.
AP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader took refuge in the Dutch Embassy after pulling out of the presidential runoff, and the U.N. Security Council condemned a "campaign of violence" in the African nation that has made a fair election impossible.
AP - Divers managed to get inside an upside-down ferry Tuesday but found only bodies and no survivors three days after the vessel capsized during a powerful typhoon with more than 800 people aboard, officials said.
AP - Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County.
Philippine divers found bodies but so far no survivors inside the hull of a ferry that capsized in a typhoon, a Philippine Coast Guard official said Tuesday.
A member of an Iraqi city council shot at U.S. forces Monday outside Baghdad, killing at least three soldiers, two Iraqi Interior Ministry officials said. But the U.S. military said one coalition soldier and an "enemy" were killed and five others were wounded.