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Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu he must stop Jewish settlements and should grasp a "historic opportunity" to make peace with the Palestinians. Obama also had pointed words for

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced a second day of a closed-door trial Tuesday as international criticism mounted against a military regime that has found pretexts for keeping her in detention over most of the past two decades....

ST. LOUIS -- Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks will miss the rest of the season because of a tear in his left wrist, a severe setback for the NL Central leaders.

Front Page: Spielberg will produce DreamWorks pic -- DreamWorks has acquired the life rights to Martin Luther King Jr. and is bringing a biopic on the slain civil rights leader to the bigscreen.

. US president says israel must honour commitments. Prime minister counters that primary threat is IranChris McGreal WashingtonIsrael's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, met President Barack Obama yesterday and said that he wants to begin immediate peace talks with the Palestinians aimed at self-government, but he stopped short of explicitly committing Israel to Palestinian independence.At discussions in the White House expected to shape the direction of one of the toughest political challenges either leader will face, Obama said he told Netanyahu that the goal of 'an extraordinary opportunity' for peace must be 'allowing the Palestinians to govern themselves as an independent state'.The US president was expected to press Netanyahu to make an explicit commitment to that end at the talks but, whatever was said in private, the Israeli prime minister shied away in public.'I want to start peace negotiations with the Palestinians immediately,' he said. 'I want to make it clear that we don

. Brown warned: don't protect Martin. Apology fails to win support of MPs. Voters think PM mishandled crisisGordon Brown was warned tonight by senior Labour MPs that the government must not be seen to be standing in the way of an unprecedented no-confidence vote to oust the Commons Speaker, Michael Martin, over his handling of the expenses scandal.The warning from the former leader of the house, Peter Hain, at a private meeting of Labour MPs came as a besieged Speaker was left clinging to his job after apologising to the nation and promising to break the deadlock between the political parties on reforms to clean up parliament.The expenses furore has unleashed a virulent anti-politics mood across the country that is threatening to damage all the main parties at next month's European elections, and has left some cabinet ministers speculating privately on the possibility of anti-corruption candidates making a sweeping impact at a general election.Martin will chair a meeting of party leade

Unprecedented scenes in Commons after Martin's apology over expenses row fails to quell calls for resignationMPs from across the House of Commons rounded on the Speaker, Michael Martin, yesterday over his handling of the row over parliamentary expenses and allowances.In unprecedented scenes in the modern era, the Speaker was told to resign and one Conservative MP shouted at him from the bar of the Commons as Martin failed to address cross-party calls to retire.Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, who on Sunday became the first party leader to call for him to resign, tonight warned Martin he faced a humiliating end to his career: 'My fear is that if the Speaker digs in, he will suffer death by a thousand cuts.' Clegg spoke out after Martin had responded to mounting public anger by apologising directly to the British ­people for parliament's, and his, conduct over MPs' expenses.'Please allow me to say to the men and women of the United Kingdom that we have let you down very badly

American and Israeli leaders join up in Washington, but it's no love story.

After years of bloody conflict, Sri Lanka says it has now totally crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels. The government says it has killed the leader.

U.S. airstrikes aimed at al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have been 'very effective,' with few civilian deaths as a result, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday in a rare public acknowledgment of the raids.