AP - American forces arrested a top Iraqi Shiite government official as he stepped off a plane at Baghdad's airport, a political ally said Thursday. The U.S. said the man arrested was a leader of Iranian-backed militias and was behind a bombing that killed 10 people, including four Americans.
AP - The U.S.-led coalition says its forces have killed more than 100 militants in four days of fighting in southern Afghanistan.
AP - Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people, as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the country's tribal belt.
AP - Russian forces turned over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of one of the separatist provinces under its control Thursday after the short war that outraged the West and brought Moscow's military deep into Georgia.
AP - Thousands of demonstrators, some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks, defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister's office compound on Thursday, vowing to remain until the country's leaders resign.
AFP - Sunderland manager Roy Keane has promised to help striker Michael Chopra as he "deals with some personal problems".
AP - The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his American advisers, showing them how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaida militants were believed hiding.
AP - Tropical Storm Gustav was heading toward Jamaica early Thursday while many miles away, residents in the New Orleans area watched it with a nervous eye.
AFP - A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at the wrong time was a "significant factor" in the killing.
AFP - Anti-government protests in Bangkok have caused the Thai military to postpone talks to discuss withdrawing troops from a disputed border area near an ancient temple, a Cambodian general said Thursday.