AP - Pakistan's newly elected government launched the first major assault against militants in the country's volatile northwest on Saturday, destroying a militant leader's headquarters and shelling suspected hideouts of other fighters.

AP - Police opened an investigation Sunday into allegations that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim sodomized his male aide, sparking fears he could be sent back to prison on the same charge that ousted him from Malaysia's government a decade ago.

AP - A European Vogue cover model fell to her death from her Manhattan apartment building Saturday in an apparent suicide, published reports said.