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  • Nigeria's first oil well is still source of woe (AP) -

    Robert Nadioni, a surveyor from Otabagi village gestures as he talks to a reporter beside Oil Well No. 1 near Oloibori, Nigeria, Saturday, May 17, 2008. This unproductive tangle of pipes on a roadside deep in the Nigerian bush is at the center of an increasingly vitriolic competition between two villages seeking sole ownership and naming rights for the well, underscoring the divisive role oil still plays five decades after a beer-fuelled party marking the first gush of Nigerian crude entered local lore. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement:


  • Pakistan nuclear proliferation case 'closed' (AP) -

    The founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, is seen in this undated file photo in Islamabad, Pakistan. Disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said Friday, July 4, 2008, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army during the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. His claims contradict his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. (AP Photo/File)AP - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry insisted Saturday that its nuclear proliferation case was closed, a day after the disgraced architect of its atomic program claimed the army under President Pervez Musharraf helped spread the technology.


  • 10 Taliban killed while planting bomb (AP) -

    Afghans listen to a radio during a picnic as they view the Arghandab district, which was recently recaptured from Taliban militants by the NATO and Afghan forces in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, July 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday.


  • Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages (AP) -

    In this frame grab from a video released by Colombia's Army taken on July 2, 2008 and released on July 4, 2008, hostage Ingrid Betancourt, center, reacts while being rescued from captivity by a Colombian military mission in an unknown location in Colombia's Guaviare state. Betancourt is one of 15 hostages rescued by Colombia's military from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Betancourt was abducted by the FARC when running for president in Feb. 2002. (AP Photo/Colombian Army)AP - Colombian military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a media crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.


  • Iran: Nuclear program remains unchanged (AP) -

    Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, speaks in the Economic and Social Council Chamber at the United Nations headquarters Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)AP - An Iranian government spokesman says the country's nuclear program remains unchanged, indicating that Tehran has no plans to stop enriching uranium.


  • Betancourt leaves hospital after medical check-up (AFP) -

    Initial results of medical tests on Ingrid Betancourt -- following her six years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle -- were AFP - Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt on Saturday left a Paris hospital after medical tests which her sister said were "satisfactory" following her six years as a hostage of rebels in the jungle.


  • Officials: Blast kills 5 in Yemen (AP) - AP - Local officials in a northern Yemeni town say an explosion at the main post office building has killed at least five people.
  • Argentine lawmakers back export taxes (AP) - AP - Argentina's lower house of Congress on Saturday approved a package of grain-export taxes that have sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages.
  • Ancient royal burial ground found in Egypt: report (AFP) -

    The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun remains empty in its burial chamber after the mummy was placed in a glass urn in the Valley of the Kings, close to Luxor, 500 kms south of Cairo in 2007. Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Saturday.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)AFP - Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Saturday.


  • Seven charged in Turkish probe into alleged coup plot: report (AFP) -

    Guards patrol outside the high-security jail in June 2008 in Ankara's Sincan suburb. A Turkish court on Saturday remanded seven people, including a retired army officer and a top businessman, in custody in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government, the Anatolia news agency reported.(AFP/File/Adem Altan)AFP - A Turkish court on Saturday remanded seven people, including a retired army officer and a top businessman, in custody in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government, the Anatolia news agency reported.


  • Pope faces lack of faith in Australia: survey (AFP) -

    People walk past a large poster of Pope Benedict XVI displayed outside St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, on July 3, during the lead-up to World Youth Day. Australia is one of the least religious nations in the western world, research showed Friday, as the country prepares to host the Pope.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - Australia is one of the least religious nations in the western world, research showed Friday, as the country prepares to host Pope Benedict XVI and Catholic World Youth Day celebrations this month.


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