Reuters - Japan's Fuji Photo Film Co. (4901.T) and China's SVA Electron Co. Ltd. (600602.SS) will together spend $270 million to make color filters used in liquid-crystal displays, Fuji Photo said on Tuesday.

AP - Iran said it intends to meet a self-imposed deadline later Tuesday to formally respond to a Western incentives package aimed at persuading it to suspend its uranium enrichment program, state television reported.

Reuters - Three Mexicans who survived an epic voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a small fishing boat have arrived in the Marshall Islands, setting foot on land for the first time in more than nine months.

AFP - Eleven people were due to appear in a London court charged in connection with an alleged plot by Islamist fanatics to use suicide bombers to blow US-bound airliners out of the sky.

AP - Eleven people charged in the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners were taken from a secure police station Tuesday to make their first appearance before their judge.

AP - An Italian woman kidnapped in Haiti by gunmen who killed her husband was freed after three days in captivity, her family and U.N. officials said Friday.

AP - Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Friday at hundreds of stone-throwing Muslims angered by the demolition of a half-built mosque in Ethiopia's capital, witnesses said.

AP - One was an athletic teenager who had grown into a devout young man, another a soccer-loving convert to Islam. The youngest was 17, the oldest 35. Many were born in Britain and all were reared here.

AP - Police raided Internet cafes, money-transfer offices and long-distance phone call centers catering to Muslims and arrested 40 people in a crackdown linked to Britain's announcement it had thwarted an alleged terror plot, authorities said Friday.

AP - An Israeli drone fired at a convoy fleeing attacks in southern Lebanon, killing at least one refugee and wounding others, witnesses and hospital officials said.

AFP - Indonesia granted a reprieve to three Christians found guilty in 2001 of violence against Muslims in Central Sulawesi, apparently minutes before they were to be shot by a firing squad.

AP - Near the heart of the war zone, the Dana Hotel — once a weekend getaway from the hubbub of Beirut — was empty, both swimming pools drained and not even a caretaker around.

AP - It was supposed to be the ultimate tribute, several days of parties and concerts to mark Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. But instead of listening to folk music and attending conferences on his legacy, Castro is expected to spend his birthday Sunday in bed, recovering from surgery for intestinal bleeding.

AP - AP Correspondent Robert H. Reid covers Iraq events from Baghdad. AP Correspondent Rebecca Santana is embedded with the New Jersey National Guard at Camp Anaconda, Iraq. Antonio Castaneda is embedded with the U.S. Marines, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regiment.

AP - A moderate earthquake rocked Mexico City on Friday, causing skyscrapers to sway and frightening residents, but emergency officials said no major damage or injuries were reported.

Reuters - Pakistan said on Friday it had arrested an al Qaeda operative who played a key role in a foiled U.K. bomb plot.

Egypt recently thwarted a plot by anti-Israel terrorist elements to overthrow the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. While details of the plot are being withheld, Egyptian officials said it was in its "elementary stages" and involved the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group....

AP - The foiled plot to blow crowded U.S.-bound jetliners out of the sky has thrust air travelers into a brave new world: one of unprecedented security checks, teeth-grinding delays and learning to do without.

AFP - A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-filled car near a NATO vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing one of the alliance's soldiers, NATO said in a statement.

Arab member states of the UN's new Human Rights Council called an emergency session Friday to discuss what they called Israeli "human rights violations" in Lebanon, but it was on Hezbollah that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, focused much of her attention. Arab delegates...