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» IRAQI SOLDER KILLS 2 AMERICANS, WOUNDS 9 An Iraqi soldier kills two U.S. soldiers and wounds nine more at an Iraqi military base. These are the first U.S. servicemen to die since the official end of combat operations in Iraq. › READ » IRAN WOMAN'S STONING SUSPENDED: FOREIGN MINISTRY Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world. › READ 
» NEWSWEEK: A LOOK INSIDE AL-QAIDA Nine years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s network remains a shadowy, little-understood enemy. The truth, as revealed by one of its fighters, is both more and less troubling than we think. › READ » GUNMEN BURST INTO FACTORY IN HONDURAS, KILL 15 Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire Tuesday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran authorities said. › READ The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens. › READ » HOLDER CALLS QURAN-BURNING PLAN 'IDIOTIC' Attorney General Eric Holder calls the planned burning of the Quran at a Florida church "idiotic and dangerous." Pastor says the Sept. 11 protest is on, but he's praying about it. › READ » CHINA CALLS IN JAPAN ENVOY OVER BOAT COLLISION Diplomatic tensions between China and Japan escalated Wednesday when Beijing called in Japan's ambassador after a Chinese fishing boat collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near a chain of disputed islands and Tokyo arrested the boat's captain. › READ » AT LEAST 1 DEAD IN MEXICO REFINERY EXPLOSION An explosion has ripped through a major refinery in northern Mexico, killing at least one worker, state oil company Pemex says. › READ
» 34 RESCUED FROM CHINA OIL PLATFORM ACCIDENT Emergency teams with helicopters rescued 34 workers Wednesday from an oil drilling platform that was leaning dangerously in the East China Sea after a storm, and searched for two others still missing, officials said. › READ
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