World - Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare. Full Story »

SEOUL (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev told Russia's once mighty spy agency on Friday to put its house in order after a senior spymaster betrayed a network of agents to the United States. Full Story »

PARIS (Reuters) - An engine problem forced a Boeing 767 operated by the Australian airline Qantas to turn back to Perth on Friday, Australia's AAP news agency reported. Full Story »

BERLIN (Reuters) - German conservative party headquarters is rocking. To the heavy thud of AC/DC, hundreds of young party members throng the foyer of Konrad Adenauer House in Berlin waving posters and talking over the music. Full Story »

YANGON (Reuters) - Rumor and speculation about the imminent release of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi swept across Myanmar on Friday but there was no word from the country's secretive military rulers about whether she would be freed. Full Story »

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's comatose former prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was moved back to his desert ranch on Friday, leaving the secure hospital ward that has been his home for almost five years, officials said. Full Story »

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese military court sentenced Islamist militant leader Omar Bakri Mohammed, banned from Britain, and 21 others to life in prison for carrying out "terrorist acts," a judicial source said on Friday. Full Story »

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's reluctance to mount another major offensive against the Taliban may be due to its fear of equally deadly reprisals by the militants, which erode the government's credibility among its people, analysts say. Full Story »

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is in Japan this weekend hoping that the last stop provides an upbeat finish to what has been a decidedly choppy tour of Asia. Full Story »

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy near the new parliament building in the Afghan capital on Friday, police and the coalition said, the first attack in Kabul in three months after security was increased. Full Story »