AP - America’s troop buildup in Iraq has sharply reduced sectarian killings and roadside bombings and lowered al-Qaida’s influence, the top U.S. general in the country said in an interview published Friday.
AP - The prime minister promised an investigation Friday into Croatia’s worst firefighting disaster, in which six men were killed and seven badly injured when they were trapped battling a fierce forest blaze.
AP - Princess Diana should be remembered as a loving, down-to-earth mother, Prince Harry said Friday at a memorial service where a bishop urged an end to a decade of bitterness over her death and her broken marriage.
AP - The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation Friday into allegations by the U.S. and Mexico that China is providing illegal subsidies for a range of industries.
AFP - Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Friday opened the annual Zimbabwe agricultural show, saying his country hoped to benefit from the southern African nation's farm technology.
AP - China’s first nationwide recall systems for unsafe food and toys came into effect Friday in one of the strongest steps taken by Beijing to clean up the country’s scandal-hit manufacturing industry.
AP - Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world’s biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
AP - South Korea’s relief at the release of 19 countrymen held hostage by the Taliban gave way Friday to anger at the victims themselves, members of a Christian church who are being criticized for ignoring warnings against travel to Afghanistan.
AP - Tropical Storm Henriette formed off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday and was forecast to move parallel to the mainland, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
AP - Representatives of feuding Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq were meeting at a seminar behind closed doors Friday to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed, conference organizers said.
