Canada arrests terror suspects TORONTO (Reuters) - Seventeen Canadian residents arrested on terrorism charges were inspired by al Qaeda, had amassed enough explosives to build huge bombs and were planning to blow up targets in densely populated Ontario, police said on Saturday.
UK police search for chemical bomb LONDON (Reuters) - British anti-terrorist officers searched a house and two workplaces on Saturday for traces of a possible chemical bomb they fear could be used in an attack in Britain.
Ahmadinejad says Iran will consider atomic proposals TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran would consider incentives from six world powers to persuade it to abandon plans to make nuclear fuel, but insisted the crux of the package was still unacceptable.
Talks start to free foreign oil hostages in Nigeria LAGOS (Reuters) - Negotiators in Nigeria's oil-producing southern delta were seeking the release on Saturday of eight foreign workers kidnapped from an oil rig by gunmen demanding jobs and development for their community.
US commanders knew Haditha deaths from gunfire: paper A senior Marine officer told the Times that commanders informed investigators they had not viewed the early discrepancies in accounts about how the two dozen Iraqis died as unusual, and that they had no information at the time suggesting that any civilians had been killed deliberately.
Bush makes new push for gay-marriage ban WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday urged the Senate to pass a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, in a congressional election-year pitch to conservatives whose enthusiasm for him has cooled.
Gunmen kill Russian embassy employee in Baghdad BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Russian embassy employee in Baghdad on Saturday, and a car bomb killed at least 28 people in Basra in one of the deadliest attacks the oil-rich city has seen since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
