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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq has released more than 10,000 detainees so far this year, it said on Saturday, at least a 12 percent increase on the total number freed in 2007.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Terrorists were gaining a deeper grip in Pakistan, and were receiving institutional nurturing and support, Afghanistan's president said on Saturday, calling on South Asian countries to stop playing geo-political games.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Water containing a small amount of radiation leaked from a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine that stopped by Japan earlier this year, the U.S. Navy and Japanese government said on Saturday, prompting calls by civic groups for full disclosure.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A Qantas flight bound for the Philippines was forced to turn back to Sydney on Saturday after the pilot discovered a hydraulic fluid leak, just eight days after a major emergency involving another of the carrier's aircraft.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The leaders of South Asia called for fighting terrorism together as a regional summit overshadowed by worsening ties between India and Pakistan, its biggest members, opened on Saturday.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday he would back limited offshore drilling as part of a broader energy package that attempted to bring down gas prices and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations investigation into the March storming of a courthouse by U.N. and NATO troops in northern Kosovo criticizes the force for rushing in, diplomats briefed on its contents said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers are questioning the biggest U.S. Internet companies about whether they track their customers' visits online and use the information to tailor Internet advertisements for them.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday urged the United States to slap severe sentences on drug traffickers extradited from his country, in a rare rebuke from a staunch U.S. ally.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress began a five-week recess on Friday, leaving unresolved how to ease the surge in gasoline prices that is certain to be an issue until the November elections and beyond.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate confirmed a new American ambassador to South Korea on Friday, after a senator dropped his objections upon getting promises the Bush administration would urge North Korea to improve human rights.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebels on Friday criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution linking a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to African concerns at a move to indict Sudan's president for war crimes.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Friday the Islamic Republic would "stand against" its enemies with its "power", speaking just before a deadline set by Western officials in a dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A 40-year-old man was charged on Friday with second degree murder after a fellow passenger was stabbed to death aboard a Greyhound bus on the Canadian Prairies and then beheaded.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta has invited a U.N. investigator to make his first visit next week so he can assess the human rights situation in the Southeast Asian country, the United Nations said on Friday.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - India said on Friday that peace talks with Pakistan were at the lowest point in their four-year history after a spate of bombings in Indian cities and at the country's embassy in Kabul.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Friday the U.N. nuclear watchdog's approval of an inspection plan for India's civilian atomic power plants would advance its efforts to have Congress consider a U.S.-India nuclear accord this year.

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez failed to show up for a narcotics summit of Latin American leaders on Friday and his government said he did not attend because of security concerns.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense approved up to $10.7 billion in arms sales for Iraq over the past week, including a $2.16 billion sale of M1A1 Abrams tanks built by General Dynamics Corp.

PRENDEN, Germany (Reuters) - Visitors flocked to the once top-secret bunker of Erich Honecker and other leaders of former East Germany as it opened to the public on Friday, almost 19 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.