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Santos wins Colombia vote, heads to runoff
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos took a big lead in the first round of a presidential election, but looked headed for a June runoff against rival Antanas Mockus, initial results said on Sunday.
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Czech centre-right parties start coalition talks
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech center-right parties began talks on forming an austerity-minded coalition government on Sunday after their surprisingly decisive election victory over leftists who advocated higher welfare spending.
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New China rules rule out torture in confessions
BEIJING (Reuters) - Embarrassed by a murder victim who turned up a decade after his "killer" was convicted, China's security and judicial authorities issued rules on Sunday to make it harder to convict suspects based on confessions secured under duress.
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No technical fault in Libya jet crash: investigators
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Investigators have so far found no evidence that mechanical failure caused an Airbus aircraft to crash in Libya this month killing 103 people, a Libyan commission studying the crash said.
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General McChrystal says Afghan insurgents trained in Iran
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan insurgents are being trained inside Iran and given weapons to fight security forces, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces said on Sunday, joining a rising drumbeat of criticism of Iran's role in the country.
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Tiny Japan party bolts PM's coalition before poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's tiny Social Democratic Party (SDP) decided Sunday to leave the ruling coalition ahead of an election, as unpopular Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama faced calls to step down over broken campaign promises.
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India and U.S. seek to bridge prickly gaps in ties
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and the United States this week hold their first strategic dialogue, testing a pledge from the Obama administration that it really does consider New Delhi a global partner.
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China coal mine blast kills 17 near Chenzhou: report
BEIJING (Reuters) - A coal mine accident killed 17 miners and injured one in a mining and metals-intensive region in southern China's Hunan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the provincial work safety watchdog.
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China urges region to step back from Korea clash
SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) - China deflected pressure to censure North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday, instead urging its neighbors to calm tensions over the sinking of a warship and avoid any clash that could shake Asia.
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BP "top kill" fails
By Ed Stoddard and Mary Milliken
VENICE, La./HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Saturday its complex "top kill" maneuver to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil well has failed, crushing hopes for a quick end to the largest oil spill in U.S. history already in its 40th day.
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China urges calm in standoff over North Korea
SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) - China came under pressure to censure in North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday but gave no sign it would get tough with the hermit state, instead urging everyone to calm tensions over a ship sinking.
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"Top kill" fails to stop flow of oil in Gulf of Mexico
Despite golf balls, tires, 30,000 horsepower of pumps and 30,000 barrels of dense drilling mud chock full of barite, BP's so-called " top kill " operation failed to stop the disastrous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and was abandoned on the afternoon of May 29. The idea was to muscle the oil back into the well with a steady stream of mud--a technique that has worked on land. [More]
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BP, Obama face clamor to halt oil spill "crime"
VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Lawmakers and local residents clamored on Sunday for BP and the Obama administration to do more to save the Gulf Coast from an out-of-control oil spill that has become the biggest environmental catastrophe in the country's history.
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British Airways cabin crew begin second 5-day strike
LONDON (Reuters) - Members of a British Airways cabin crew union began a second five-day strike on Sunday after talks held last week aimed at resolving the long-running dispute ended without agreement. The new wave of industrial action by the airline's cabin staff started officially at midnight (7 p.m. EDT) with little sign on the horizon of a breakthrough in the increasingly bitter row.
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People with Asperger's less likely to see purpose behind the events in their lives
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Israel rejects call to join anti-nuclear treaty
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Saturday rejected as "flawed and hypocritical" a declaration by signatories of a global anti-nuclear arms treaty that urged it to sign the pact and make its atomic facilities subject to U.N. inspections.
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Japan PM says to stay in post, but poll outlook grim
SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) - Japan's premier said Saturday he would stay in his post despite a political furor over a U.S.-Japan deal on a Marine airbase, but he was not optimistic about the party's chances in a looming election.
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Centre-right wins Czech election on austerity plan
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Center-right Czech parties advocating austerity to prevent a Greek-style debt crisis beat pro-welfare leftists in an election on Saturday and looked set to form a government able to push through deep economic reforms.
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U.S. may choose lead bank on GM IPO next week: report
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury and General Motors Co may select a lead underwriter for an initial public offering for the automaker as early as next week, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.
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