Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast (AP)

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau speaks to media during an international conference on civilian nuclear energy, in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. Landau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from 'our Arab neighbors.'(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

AP - Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear?

Mandatory insurance proposed for UK dogs (AP)

A dog walks past a landscape of central London, on Hampstead Heath in London, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The British government have launched a new proposal which requires that all new dog owners fit their pets with microchips and that canine insurance is made compulsory. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

AP - A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen ...

Iran calls political opponents enemies of Islam (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2009, file photo, released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani, walks through the revolutionary court in Tehran, Iran. Ali Zamani was hanged on 'moharebeh' offenses Thursday, Jan 28, 2010, after he was convicted of trying to topple 'the Islamic establishment' and for membership of armed opposition groups. 'Moharebeh' crimes, which Iran's legal code defines as 'defiance of God', or the state, are punishable by hanging. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Ali Rafiee, file) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT

AP - A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judi...

Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan (AP)

U.S Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hand with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Biden said there is a 'moment of opportunity' for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

AP - Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed ea...

AP Interview: Silva says Iran sanctions dangerous (AP)

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, looks on during an interview with The Associated Press, in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Lula da Silva warned that U.S.-proposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP - Brazil's president warned Tuesday that U.S.-proposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear prog...

Israel: Did the Alleged Mossad Hit in Dubai Really Help? (Time.com)
Time.com - While all the signs point to Mossad as the perpetrator and the Israelis are hardly den...

Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees (AP)
AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreat...

US military: 2 soldiers die in Iraq in accident (AP)

Memorial stones, one with the words 'I love you,' sit atop the headstone of Marine Corp Sgt. James McIlvaine in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, March 9, 2010. He died from wounds sustained during Operation Iraqi Freedom on April 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq.

Suspected mastermind of '94 attack on Jews decries 'lies' (AP)
AP - An Iranian accused of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed...

Shots ring out near site of Christian-Muslim massacres (AP)

A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)

AP - Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city l...

U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case: USTR (Reuters)

Pedestrians walk past Google China headquarters in Beijing January 26, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Jason Lee

Reuters - The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restric...

Canadian jury dismissed in Air India perjury trial (Reuters)
Reuters - A Canadian judge on Monday dismissed a jury as it was about to hear the perjury trial o...

NKorea has medium-range missile division: report (AP)

U.S. soldiers, wearing gray uniform, and South Korean Marines warm up before the mountain warfare training for the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle (KR/FE) 2010 in Pohang, South Korea, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. North Korea's army said Monday it is ready to 'blow up' South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has denounced as a rehearsal for attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

AP - North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-...

U.S. government knows of no al Qaida arrest in Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Despite numerous news reports that Pakistan has arrested an A...

Japan's Hatoyama tries to shift more power to the politicians (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - For decades, Japan's weekly political calendar was fixed. Before ...