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  1. Pope Benedict XVI poses with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) during their private meeting at the Vatican June 23, 2007. Blair, now the Middle East peace envoy, has converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's Catholics said on Saturday. (Osservatore Romano/Reuters)
    Tony Blair converts to Catholicism Reuters - Sat Dec 22, 11:56 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair has converted from Britain's established church, Anglicanism, to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's Catholics said on Saturday.

  2. Turkish soldiers patrol in Sirnak province, on the Turkish-Iraqi border, southeastern Turkey, in this photo dated Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. The Turkish army sent hundreds of soldiers about three kilometers, 1 1/2 miles, into northern Iraq in an overnight operation against Kurdish rebels till early Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007, Kurdish officials said. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
    Turkish planes bomb Kurds in Iraq again AP - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

    ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in the third confirmed cross-border offensive by Turkish forces in less than a week, the military said.

  3. A view of St. Anastasia Basilica, in Rome, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. A recently discovered pagan shrine dedicated to Rome's founder Romulus and his brother Remus is being linked by some experts to the first celebration of Christmas held on the date that still marks the festivity today. Last month Italian archaeologists unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been worshipped by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the legendary twins. Now, a top Italian scholar believes that a church, the Church of St. Anastasia, built on the site of the shrine, believed to be a few steps away from the church, witnessed the birth of Christmas as we know it, making it a symbolic place in efforts to link pagan practices and Christian celebrations. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
    First Dec. 25 Xmas tied to pagan shrine AP - Sat Dec 22, 2:25 PM ET

    ROME - The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.

  4. US: Suspect is kin to 9/11 hijacker AP - Sat Dec 22, 2:13 PM ET

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Saudi terrorism suspect facing possible charges before a military tribunal at Guantanamo has been identified as a brother-in-law of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

  5. An Iraqi soldier pushes children on a swing in central Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. Residents of Baghdad packed the capital's parks and amusement rides on Saturday, taking advantage of a lull in violence and the Islamic feast of Eid al-Adha to venture out of their homes in droves. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
    Iraqi gov't pledges to disband Sunnis AP - Sat Dec 22, 2:40 PM ET

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shiite-led government declared Saturday that after restive areas are calmed it will disband Sunni groups battling Islamic extremists because it does not want them to become a separate military force.

  6. A salvage barge lifts a specially designed basket containing the wreck of the 800-year-old merchant ship 'Nanhai No. 1' from the waters off the south China coast near Yangjiang, southern China's Guangdong province Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. The Nanhai No. 1, which means 'South China Sea No. 1,' sank off the south China coast with some 60,000 to 80,000 items on board, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wu Jiancheng, head of the excavation project. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
    China raises 800-year-old sunken ship AP - Fri Dec 21, 11:12 PM ET

    BEIJING - After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported.

  7. Students of Amity University walk at its campus in Noida, India, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. The campus is the nucleus of one of the fastest-growing private school systems in India. And if Amity's founder has his way, in less than a decade it will be the center of a vast chain of private universities, feeding a ravenous middle-class appetite for education left unfulfilled by a public university system that often barely functions. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
    Indian dreams of private universities AP - Sat Dec 22, 12:27 PM ET

    NOIDA, India - On the campus of Amity University, pretty much everything is a work in progress.

  8. Iranian ex-president attacks hardliners AP - Sat Dec 22, 2:46 PM ET

    TEHRAN, Iran - A popular former president has resumed his attacks against hardline Iranian clerics threatening to disqualify reformists from upcoming elections.

  9. American tourists look at the mummy of Pharaoh King Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for about 66 years (1279-1213 BC), at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. Egypt's first ancient DNA lab, funded by the Discovery Channel, is the centerpiece of an ambitious plan to identify nameless mummies and re-examine the royal mummy collection. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
    Mummy claim faces DNA scrutiny AP - Sat Dec 22, 12:45 PM ET

    CAIRO, Egypt - Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV.

  10. French TV crew may face Niger death penalty: lawyer Reuters - 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

    NIAMEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have charged two French journalists with colluding with armed groups in the country's uranium-rich north, which could carry the death penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer said on Saturday.

  11. Ghana leader: Oil reserves at 3B barrels AP - Sat Dec 22, 8:55 AM ET

    ACCRA, Ghana - Ghana's president said Saturday that offshore oil reserves discovered in the West African country's waters total 3 billion barrels.

  12. Kate (L) and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, arrive at their solicitors' office in London September 20, 2007. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)
    Missing Madeleine's parents issue Christmas plea Reuters - Sat Dec 22, 3:26 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann issued a video on Saturday with a new plea for information about her whereabouts and a special Christmas message to their daughter to "be brave."

  13. Former South African President Nelson Mandela (L) and then deputy President Jacob Zuma waves to soccer fans in Johannesburg, in this November 17, 2004 file photo. Mandela has praised Zuma, the newly elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), as a man who could unify the divided party. (Juda Ngwenya/Reuters)
    Mandela praises Zuma as ANC leader Reuters - Sat Dec 22, 5:38 AM ET

    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela has praised Jacob Zuma, the newly elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), as a man who could unify the divided party.

  14. A humpback whale jumps out of the waters off Hawaii in this photo, date unknown. Japan is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday Dec. 21, 2007. The Kyodo News agency report came hours after public broadcaster NHK said the government was considering a deal for Japan to remove humpbacks from its planned harvest of more than 1,000 whales this season in the South Pacific. Commercial hunts of humpbacks have been banned worldwide since 1966. (AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries)
    Japan halts plan to kill humpback whales AP - Fri Dec 21, 5:34 PM ET

    TOKYO - Humpback whales are safe — at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.

  15. Pakistan's former Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sharpao, center, visits a local hospital to meet with victims of a suicide bombing, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide attacker detonated a bomb packed with ball bearings and nails amid hundreds of holiday worshippers at the home of Pakistan's former interior minister, killing at least 42 people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
    Pakistan looks for clues to ID bomber AP - Sat Dec 22, 10:36 AM ET

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police examined clothing, shoes and the severed legs of a man Saturday to try to identify a suicide bomber who killed at least 50 people during a holiday prayer service at a crowded mosque in northwestern Pakistan.

  16. - Nizar Trabelsi is seen in this July 1992 file photo in Wuppertal, Germany, when he played with the German soccer club Wuppertaler Sport Verein. Fourteen people were arrested in Belgium, Friday Dec. 21, 2007 after authorities foiled a plot to free Trabelsi, a suspected al-Qaeda member, who was arrested in September 2001, officials say. (AP Photo/ Horstmueller)
    Al-Qaida jailbreak plot suspects freed AP - Sat Dec 22, 1:36 PM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - A judge released 14 suspected Islamic extremists Saturday for lack of evidence of their involvement in a plot to break free an al-Qaida prisoner convicted of planning an attack on U.S. air base personnel.

  17. Daniel Levinson, center, shows a picture of his father Robert Levinson, an American former FBI agent, who was last seen on Iranian Kish island on March 8, as his mother Christine sits, right, while Swiss ambassador to Tehran speaks with media during a press conference, at the Swiss Embassy In Tehran, which handles U.S. interests in Iran, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. Iran said Saturday that Tehran did not have any information about a former FBI agent who reportedly went missing while visiting a Persian Gulf island, the state-run news agency, IRNA, reported. Christine Levinson and her 22-year-old son, Daniel, arrived in Tehran on Tuesday to seek information about her husband, who was on Kish to investigate a cigarette smuggler for a client of his security firm. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
    Wife has no luck finding husband in Iran AP - Sat Dec 22, 11:36 AM ET

    TEHRAN, Iran - The wife of a missing former FBI agent said Saturday she has been unable to find out what happened to her husband despite visiting the Iranian island where he was last seen.

  18. Pope Benedict XVI poses with then British Prime Minister Tony Blair(R) during their private audience at the Vatican in June 2007. Blair has become a Roman Catholic, church officials said Saturday, ending widespread speculation that he would switch to the faith of his wife and four children.(AFP/OR-HO/File)
    Former PM Blair converts to Catholicism: officials AFP - 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Former prime minister Tony Blair has become a Roman Catholic, church officials said Saturday, ending widespread speculation that he would switch to the faith of his wife and four children.

  19. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during an interview at 24 Sussex Drive, his official residence, in Ottawa, December 18, 2007. REUETRS/Chris Wattie
    Dalai Lama "is not a call girl," says Canada's PM Reuters - Thu Dec 20, 5:12 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to explain in a year-end interview why he'd met the Dalai Lama in his Ottawa office, it was clear he wanted to show respect for the exiled Tibetan leader.

  20. Former fund salesman fined C$6 million and banned Reuters - Fri Dec 21, 3:28 PM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - A former mutual fund salesman in British Columbia who was found guilty by regulators of committing fraud has been fined C$6 million ($6.1 million) and banned from working in the West Coast province's capital markets for life.

  21. An Israeli soldier tackles a Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus or Father Christmas during at a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the village of Umm Salamunah near the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israeli guards beat five demonstrators during the protest on Friday, organisers said.(AFP/Musa al-Shaer)
    'Father Christmas' beaten in West Bank demo: organisers AFP - Fri Dec 21, 1:37 PM ET

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Israeli guards beat five demonstrators, including one dressed as Father Christmas, during a protest on Friday against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank, organisers said.

  22. Snow avalanche kills 16 in Tajikistan, more trapped Reuters - Sat Dec 22, 10:14 AM ET

    DUSHANBE (Reuters) - An avalanche killed at least 16 people in the mountains of Tajikistan on Saturday while more people remained trapped under snow, an Interior Ministry official said.

  23. File photo shows an elephant passing by an effigy of the demon king Ravana in New Delhi. An "elephant corridor" linking two forest reserves is being opened in southern India, giving the endangered animals unrestricted movement to feed and breed in the region, officials say.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)
    India's endangered elephants boosted by 'corridor' opening AFP - Thu Dec 20, 2:11 AM ET

    BANGALORE, India (AFP) - An "elephant corridor" linking two forest reserves is being opened in southern India, giving the endangered animals unrestricted movement to feed and breed in the region, officials say.

  24. CORRECTED-China pressure on Myanmar key, EU says Reuters - Fri Dec 21, 4:16 PM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's support has been vital in achieving initial steps towards national reconciliation in military-ruled Myanmar, an EU envoy said on Thursday.

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