AP - Seven African leaders reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia Monday.

Joanna Wypior - AHN Staff Reporter Sydney, Australia (AHN) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has met with Australian Prime Minister John Howard for talks in Sydney while during her three-day visit to Australia. Having canceled two previous visits to Australia, the secretary of state...

AFP - Singaporean President S.R. Nathan has met with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and discussed boosting ties, as Nathan began a state visit.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Ames, Iowa (AHN) - In the midst of a recruiting scandal, Iowa State fires basketball coach Wayne Morgan and his staff on Friday. ISU director of athletics Jamie Pollard says at a news conference that he met with school president Gregory Geoffrey and with Morgan...

Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair's account of the aftermath of the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man is backed by a senior officer.

AP - Iraq's sectarian violence is worsening, but civil war is neither imminent nor inevitable, the visiting British defense secretary said Saturday.

AP - Possible negotiations between the United States and Iran and the convening of the first session of a new Iraqi parliament could give the Bush administration a long-needed lift.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter Ames, Iowa (AHN) - In the midst of a recruiting scandal, Iowa State fires basketball coach Wayne Morgan and his staff on Friday. ISU director of athletics Jamie Pollard says at a news conference that he met with school president Gregory Geoffrey and with Morgan...

A senior Scotland Yard officer holds talks with libel lawyers over a Met statement on Tube shooting.

AP - The military has opened a criminal investigation into a firefight between U.S. Marines and insurgents last year that left 15 Iraqi civilians dead, defense officials said Thursday.

Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Hanoi, Vietnam (AHN) – Gary Glitter’s lawyer says his client will appeal against his three-year prison sentence for sexually abusing two young girls in his home in Southern Vietnam. Le Thanh Kinh says he met glitter at Phuoc Co prison where the...

Three months after its members were elected, Iraq's parliament met briefly for the first time today, but a major stumbling block to the creation of a national unity government remains for the legislative body. The 275 lawmakers remain sharply divided over the selection of Ibrahim al-Jaafari as the new prime minister. In a 30-minute meeting around midday, members of the Council of Representatives were sworn in amid tight security, but they did little else.

Reuters - Iraq's parliament met briefly on Thursday for the first time since it was elected in December but talks on forming a national unity government are deadlocked and the session did little to halt a slide to civil war.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Iraq's new parliament holds its first session amid heavy security in Baghdad's Green Zone. It lasted just a little more than 30 minutes. The members were sworn in today, met for a little more than a half hour, then adjourned. Lawmakers...

AFP - Group of Eight energy ministers met in Moscow for a second day of talks on securing global energy supplies, with Moscow and Washington pressing for a nuclear fuel network and Europe seeking the reliable natural gas deliveries from Russia.

Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair faces new questions over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube.

AP - Oliver Lafayette scored 23 points, including eight straight in a span of 39 seconds, to lead Houston to a 77-67 win over BYU on Wednesday night in the first round of the NIT.

AP - James Levine's absence didn't create the only hole at the Metropolitan Opera. In the Met's revival of Verdi's "Luisa Miller," the leading soprano and tenor never made it to opening night.

Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Los Angeles, CA (AHN) – King Kong star Jack Black elopes with girlfriend Tanya Hayden. The two met while attending a private performing arts high school in Santa Monica, CA but were not romantically involved back then. According to Tanya’s...

AFP - Washington is opposed to Russia supplying India with nuclear fuel before New Delhi honors its obligations under the landmark nuclear deal it recently signed with the United States, a senior State Department official said.