Updated: 9:00 AM More than 50 people are dead in Iraq in two separate car bombings.

Posted: 2:14 PM The Iraqi military says a British journalist kidnapped two months ago in the southern city of Basra has been rescued.

Posted: 4:12 PM Water balloons and demonstrators aren't slowing down the olympic torch's relay through Argentina.

Posted: 2:28 PM Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he doubts the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr would be subject to arrest by U.S. forces.

Updated: 10:57 PM It's been relatively quiet in Argentina ahead of today's Olympic torch relay, but demonstrators are promising to be mobile once things get started.

Updated: 10:57 PM The president of the International Olympic Committee is calling the turmoil over the Beijing torch relay a “crisis” for the Olympic movement.

Updated: 10:27 AM Iraqi authorities say at least 16 people have died during fighting in Baghdad's Sadr city.

Posted: 3:00 PM A scientist is warning that climate change could make beer more expensive -- especially in Australia.

Updated: 9:33 AM Iran remains defiant in the face of international calls for a halt to its nuclear activities.

Updated: 10:57 PM The international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay may be ended because of the protests that have disrupted it in London and Paris.

Posted: 3:01 PM Iran says it's willing to enter another round of talks with the U.S. over Iraq.

Updated: 1:54 PM A German court has rejected an employee's demand that an irate customer pay damages for throwing a half-eaten kebab at her.

Posted: 11:32 AM The first meeting in nearly two months between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders is under way in Jerusalem.

Posted: 11:10 AM Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is issuing his strongest warning yet to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr .

Posted: 10:51 AM International Olympic Committee Head Jacques Rogge says he's “very concerned” about the unrest in Tibet and other international issues surrounding this summer's Beijing games.

Posted: 10:45 AM The Olympic torch relay through Paris is not running smoothly.

Posted: 9:34 AM Iraq's prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki has declared a nationwide freeze on raids against suspected Shiite militiamen.

Posted: 9:04 AM Both President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are putting the best face on Washington-Moscow relations at a time of rising tensions.

Posted: 3:42 PM A suicide bomber has killed at least seven people at an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Posted: 2:54 PM President Bush is being rebuffed at his final NATO summit.

Posted: 2:50 PM The Pentagon says the U.S. military is spending about $153 million a month in Iraq on fuel.

Updated: 2:19 PM An army veteran accused of trying to bring bomb-making materials onto an airplane is due to appear in court in Orlando, Florida, today.

Posted: 12:05 PM China is continuing efforts to quell violence and unrest well ahead of the august opening of the Beijing Olympics.

Posted: 3:07 PM President Bush is welcoming announcements that some countries will be providing more troops to the NATO force in Afghanistan, but he's still calling on other allied nations to step up their efforts against terrorism.

Posted: 3:57 PM Britain is postponing a planned pullout of troops from Iraq because of the recent surge in violence