GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza security officials say two bombs went off in Gaza City early Friday, killing one man....

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A Qantas flight en route to Australia from London made an emergency stop in Manila on Friday after a loud bang punched a hole in the Boeing 747-400's fuselage, officials and passengers said....

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek authorities say an explosion and ensuing fire on a ship undergoing repairs at a dockyard near Athens has killed at least five people and injured four more....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan officials say three Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with police in southern Afghanistan....

BEIJING (AP) -- Eager fans swarmed and in some cases scuffled as they lined up at sales windows Friday to get the final batch of tickets for next month's Olympics....

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- An Austrian newspaper is reporting that captured war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic worked in Vienna as "miracle healer" during his years under cover....

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Police say militants have blown up a girls school and 10 shops in northwestern Pakistan. There were no casualties....

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni security official says a suicide car bomber has rammed a vehicle into the Interior Ministry's headquarters in eastern Yemen, killing a policeman and injuring eight others....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four years ago....

SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- A Chinese man accused of stabbing a Canadian model to death in her apartment building told police in a televised interview the attack began when the woman caught him trying to steal her laptop computer....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A plane taking off from New Delhi's main airport caught fire forcing all 252 passengers and crew to escape through an emergency exit, airport officials said Friday....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A fire ripped through a boardinghouse in South Korea early Friday, killing seven people and injuring 10 others, an official said....

BEIJING (AP) -- A mosque under construction collapsed in northwest China, killing eight people and injuring 23 others, state media reported Friday....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered a reward to anyone who carries out a citizen's arrest of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country Friday....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru's Southern Copper Corp. on Thursday said second-quarter profit fell 24 percent from the year-ago period amid strikes and higher fuel and production costs....

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) -- The U.S. Virgin Islands may build a pipeline to replace diesel-generated power with natural gas brought in from a bigger grid in the nearby U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, the head of the islands' utility company said Thursday....

MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) -- A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017....

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Secretary of State Rice says Pakistan needs to do more to end militant activity on Afghan border....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists....

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state media say 22 rescuers who helped victims of May's devastating earthquake have been chosen as torchbearers for the Olympic torch....