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  1. A protester in a giant figure of U.S. vice-President Dick Cheney poses amongst tens of demonstrators gathered outside oil company Shell's headquarters Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, in London for a march through central London to protest against the pressure applied on the Iraqi government by the Bush administration to pass an oil law that effectively hands over Iraq's oil to foreign companies. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
    US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,180 AP - Fri Oct 10, 9:28 PM ET Avg. Rating: 5.0

    As of Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

  2. Kimani, a huge bull elephant, can be seen with his collar containing a sim card, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya. Save the Elephants has set up a project where they placed a mobile phone SIM card in an elephants collar, then set up a virtual 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrored the conservatory's boundaries. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
    Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers AP - 31 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.9

    OL PEJETA, Kenya - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

  3. Pakistani relatives help a suicide attack victim at a hospital in Peshawar. Tribesmen in northwestern Pakistan have buried their dead after a suicide attack killed at least 40 at a mass meeting called to tackle Taliban militancy in the area.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
    Pakistan tribes raze Taliban houses after bombing Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 4:58 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.7

    KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry Pakistani tribesmen traded fire with Taliban militants and demolished their houses in a northwestern tribal region after a car suicide attack killed at least 40 people, residents and officials said on Saturday.

  4. Israeli hospital hosts cancer-stricken Iranian boy AP - Fri Oct 10, 3:19 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    JERUSALEM - The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the bitterly divided countries.

  5. Pakistani security officials and rescuers gather in front of the damaged building in Islamabad on October 9, 2008. A suicide attack struck a police complex in Islamabad and a roadside bomb killed 10 people in Pakistan's northwest on Thursday, underscoring the growing threat posed by Islamist militants.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
    Suicide attacks a growing threat in Pakistan The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Oct 10, 4:00 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    Islamabad, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck the headquarters of the Anti-terrorism Squad of the Islamabad police force Thursday afternoon, just as lawmakers were preparing to convene 15 miles away to discuss growing militancy in the country.

  6. A broker reacts as he works on the floor of the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Brazil's main stock index plummeted more than 10 percent in early trading Friday after steep declines in Asia, Europe. Other Latin America markets fell sharply as well. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
    Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America AP - Fri Oct 10, 5:18 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    BRASILIA, Brazil - The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class.

  7. In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, pirates leave the Ukrainian merchant vessel MV Faina for Somalia's shore Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 while under observation by a U.S. Navy ship. The MV Faina which is carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related military equipment, was seized by pirates Sept. 25 and forced to proceed to anchorage off the Somali coast. A pirate spokesman said Thursday, Oct. 9, the Somali bandits holding the ship laden with tanks are open to negotiations about their ransom demands. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky)
    2nd ship seized as pirates threaten to blow up 1st AP - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Armed pirates hijacked a massive tanker as world powers on Saturday headed toward the Somali coast to end a two-week standoff aboard a ship laden with tanks and weapons, officials said.

  8. A Pakistani boy, wounded during a suicide attack in Hadeezai area of Orakzai tribal agency, is attended by doctors in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. A suicide bomber attacked an anti-insurgent group in a northwest tribal area, killing at least 22 and wounding around 100 people. The Orakzai area tribesmen had gathered to plan the demolition of a militant base. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
    Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned AP - Sat Oct 11, 5:18 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan.

  9. In this June 5, 2008 file photo, chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)
    US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears AP - Sat Oct 11, 7:14 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

  10. Palestinians raid Hamas "bomb factory" in Hebron Reuters - Fri Oct 10, 7:28 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces raided a Hamas bomb factory and arrested 11 members of the rival Islamist faction in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a senior police officer said.

  11. This Sept. 30, 2008 file photo shows, from left to right, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, join their hands during a photo opportunity during a multilateral summit in Manaus, northern Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
    Under Bush, US influence in Latin America wanes AP - 1 hour, 16 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.3

    QUITO, Ecuador - In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War. It is already getting a warm welcome from some in a region where the influence of the United States is in decline.

  12. Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during a news conference in Kiev October 7, 2008. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)
    PM: No early elections in Ukraine AP - Fri Oct 10, 3:52 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.3

    KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's prime minister said Friday there will be no early parliamentary elections, defying a presidential decree and raising the stakes in her fierce political battle with the president.

  13. Chives for sale are seen at a public market in Havana, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables citizens can buy at farmers' markets after two hurricanes wiped out more than 30 percent of the island's crops last month.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
    In food crisis, Cuba limits sales so all can eat AP - Fri Oct 10, 2:54 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.2

    HAVANA - Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around.

  14. Ex-volunteers angry at Peace Corps Bolivia pullout AP - 1 hour, 11 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.1

    It took Ellen Arnstein the better part of two years to win the trust of the people of Camargo, a farming town of 5,000 in southeastern Bolivia.

  15. This Aug. 9, 2008, file photo shows Joerg Haider, top candidate of the Alliance for the future of Austria, BZOE, for Sunday's national elections in Austria in Klagenfurt. Haider died in a car accident early Saturday morning Oct. 11, 2008 in the south of the country police said. Haider, 58, was governor of Carinthia and leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger, file)
    Police say Austrian rightist Haider dead at 58 AP - Sat Oct 11, 3:44 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.0

    VIENNA, Austria - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58.

  16. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni arrives to Israel's northern coastal city of Acre October 10, 2008. Police used tear gas and water cannon to try and stamp out clashes between Jews and Arabs in Israel's northern coastal city of Acre on Thursday, officials said. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
    Israel's Acre suffers third night of violence Reuters - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.0

    ACRE, Israel (Reuters) - Rioters in northern Israel torched two houses and badly damaged several others in the third night of tensions between Jewish and Arab residents of Acre, officials said Saturday.

  17. In this file photo dated Sept. 30, 2008, pages from the original diary written by Baruch Milch during the Holocaust are seen in Warsaw. The journal is housed in Warsaw's Jewish History Institute, which has had possession of it since Milch gave it to them, but now the Holocaust survivor's Israeli-born daughter wants the journal closer to her home for her and her family. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)
    Israeli woman seeks father's Holocaust diary AP - Fri Oct 10, 1:12 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.0

    WARSAW, Poland - Baruch Milch was hiding from the Nazis in occupied Poland in the summer of 1943. His wife and 3-year-old son had been killed in Hitler's Holocaust.

  18. Russia test-fires ballistic missile to mid-Pacific Reuters - Sat Oct 11, 8:59 AM ET Avg. Rating: 3.9

    MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia test-launched a strategic missile to the equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean for the first time on Saturday, at a time when Moscow's growing assertiveness is fuelling tension with the West.

  19. A birthday cake. A woman who celebrated her 105th birthday this week said the secret to long life was celibacy, adding that she imagined sex was a "lot of hassle."(Getty Images/AFP/File/Bryan Haraway)
    Sex a 'hassle,' says 105-year-old virgin AFP - Fri Oct 10, 1:32 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.9

    LONDON (AFP) - A woman who celebrated her 105th birthday this week said the secret to long life was celibacy, adding that she imagined sex was a "lot of hassle."

  20. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (R) talks to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at the beginning of the G7 Ministerial meeting at the Treasury Department in Washington October 10, 2008. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
    G7 pledges united crisis response but rifts emerge Reuters - Fri Oct 10, 4:52 PM ET Avg. Rating: 3.8

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the world's rich nations struggled on Friday to agree on a unified approach to cure a credit crisis that threatens to trigger a deep global recession.

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