AFP - Two left-wing parties in crisis-hit Iceland agreed Saturday to form an interim coalition to replace the country’s recently resigned government, the leader of one of the parties said.
AFP - An appeal court in Egypt’s capital on Saturday scrapped a one-year jail sentence imposed on four journalists for “harming the public interest” but upheld 2,800-euro (3,600-dollar) fines, judicial sources said.
AFP - Indian comedy king Krishna Rao Nagesh, known as “India’s Jerry Lewis”, died Saturday at the age of 76, his family said.
AP - Global leaders had a simple message for the world on Saturday: Keep trading. If nations instead choose to barricade their economies behind new commercial barriers, they risk making the global economic crisis even worse, leaders said.
AP - Passing through razor-wire cordons and police checkpoints, Iraqi voters Saturday took another step in the nation’s quest for stability in provincial elections that were carried off without major violence but tarnished by claims of flaws and threats of challenges.
AP - A French scientist who was shot in the head during a robbery near Mexico City’s airport died on Saturday.
AP - Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum is far from America but not from America’s battle over abortion.
AP - Iran began 10 days of festivities on Saturday marking the 30th anniversary of its Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah and brought hard-line clerics to power.
AP - Palestinian militants fired a rocket from Gaza on Saturday that exploded close to the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon without causing any damages or injuries, an Israeli military spokesman said.
AFP - Australia’s second-largest city Melbourne was struggling to cope Saturday with a once-in-a-century heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives and sparked wildfires that have razed up to 20 homes.
