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Israel's military shows off unmanned, armed patrol vehicle 28 Apr 08, 17:44 ET AP - Israel's newest "soldier" can see at night, never nods off on sentry duty and can carry 660 pounds without complaining. more Is an Iranian general pulling the strings in Iraq? 28 Apr 08, 15:52 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— One of the most powerful men in Iraq isn't an Iraqi government official, a militia leader, a senior cleric or a top U.S. military commander or diplomat, more London's Old Bailey criminal court puts archive online 28 Apr 08, 13:45 ET AP - In the scales of justice in 19th-century London, the theft of two coats, two pairs of trousers, two waistcoats, a handkerchief, a pair of gloves and a notebook equaled one life. more Iranian president makes brief visit to Pakistan 28 Apr 08, 11:51 ET AP - Iranian and Pakistani leaders resolved issues related to a multibillion-dollar gas pipeline project opposed by the United States during the Iranian president's brief visit Monday to Pakistan, state media reported. more Weeping schoolgirls wish happy birthday Saddam 28 Apr 08, 11:17 ET Reuters - Hundreds of Iraqi schoolchildren were brought to the modest mausoleum of Saddam Hussein on Monday to celebrate the birthday of the executed dictator in the village where he was born. more Iran discusses "serious" nuclear ideas with Russia 28 Apr 08, 10:38 ET Reuters - Iran on Monday discussed with Russia proposals it has drawn up to defuse a nuclear row with the West, which accuses the Islamic Republic of seeking to build an atomic bomb. more Scholars run down more clues to abiding Holocaust mystery 28 Apr 08, 09:30 ET AP - Budapest, November 1944: Another German train has loaded its cargo of Jews bound for Auschwitz. A young Swedish diplomat pushes past the SS guard and scrambles onto the roof of a cattle car. more Despite war, Kabul still "not Baghdad" 28 Apr 08, 07:57 ET Reuters - While President Hamid Karzai may have narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in central Kabul on Sunday, in many ways the Afghan capital is remarkably calm and orderly for a city in the midst of war. more Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims 28 Apr 08, 05:58 ET AFP - Syria said on Monday that US accusations it had been building a nuclear reactor until its destruction in an Israeli air raid last September were as bogus as American claims that Saddam Hussein's regime had weapons of mass destruction in 2003. more Vietnam to end adoption program with US 28 Apr 08, 04:11 ET AP - Vietnam is to end a baby adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing corruption and baby-selling, officials said Monday. more Kenyan military tortured civilians during crackdown: report 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET AFP - Kenyan army officers tortured more than 4,000 people during a recent crackdown on a rebel group, said a report by a rights group on Monday, which characterised the abuse as a crime against humanity. more Uighurs struggle in world reshaped by Chinese influx 28 Apr 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - King Daoud Mehsut of Kucha, 12th in his royal line and the last man still alive in China to have sat on a monarch's throne, is a man of noble bearing and proud visage. more Is Al-Qaeda Back in Baghdad? 28 Apr 08, 03:40 ET Time.com - A series of bombings rocked Sunni areas of Baghdad over the weekend, threatening to draw al-Qaeda back into the spotlight, just as Iraqi and American military commanders announced limited progress made on another fiery front line. more Passenger train collision kills 66 in eastern China 28 Apr 08, 01:44 ET AP - State media says the death toll in a pre-dawn passenger train collision in eastern China has risen to at least 66. more China train crash kills 66, injures hundreds 28 Apr 08, 01:26 ET Reuters - Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds as carriages derailed and toppled into a ditch, state media said. more Intestinal virus kills 19 children in China: report 28 Apr 08, 00:34 ET AFP - Nineteen young children have died and nearly 800 others have fallen ill in a lethal intestinal virus outbreak in eastern China, state media reported Monday. more

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