Bush defends Iraq strategy with comparison to Vietnam
Accusing Congress of planning to "pull the rug out from under" American troops, Bush said that leaving Iraq now would provoke a bloodbath comparable to the killings that followed the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam.
- Bush challenged on Iraq-Vietnam analogy

Hundreds march in Yangon over inflation
Hundreds of people marched Wednesday to protest steep price increases in fuel costs after the overnight arrest of 13 dissidents who had led an earlier protest against the prices.

After 46 years, German seeks ending to her love story in Seoul
"He was my first love," Renate Hong says of the North Korean husband she married in what was then East Germany. Almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall removed one barrier, the Korean divide still separates them.

ECB acts to dispel clouds over European credit markets
The European Central Bank made the largest amount of emergency loans in two months and said it would inject another €40 billion.
- Fed must do more for markets, investors say
- France steps up drive for new market rules

Cousin of former Estonian president charged with genocide
Arnold Meri was charged for his role as a Communist bureaucrat involved in the deportation of civilians to Siberia in 1949. The charge could further inflame already poor relations between Estonia and Russia.

Online gambling case pits Antigua against U.S. and challenges WTO
The dispute, the WTO's first to deal with the Internet, is likely to serve as a major precedent.

Bhutto spells out power-sharing deal with Musharraf
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto would broker a deal to allow General Pervez Musharraf to run for president again, provided he resigns as army chief and drops corruption charges against her.

Putin's bare-chested photos set Russia abuzz
Few could have predicted the squall of gossip that would follow after Putin stripped off his shirt for the cameras while on holiday with Prince Albert II of Monaco.

Letter from South Korea: The gold rush over wild ginseng
In South Korea and elsewhere in Asia, wild ginseng roots have traditionally been prized for their supposed preternatural healing powers, properties believed to be missing in the farmed variety.

Using voice as the next Internet on-ramp via cellphones
There is one universal input device that is far easier to use than any miniature keypad or even a touchscreen keyboard, and it works with every cellphone: your voice.

More than words: Britain embraces the graphic novel
Building on the surprise successes of Raymond Briggs's "Ethel and Ernest," and Chris Ware's "Jimmy Corrigan," the graphic novel has, in the past two years, begun to break into the British mainstream. Recent and planned publications include "Agatha Christie Comic Strip Editions" from HarperCollins, "Shooting War" from Weidenfeld and Nicolson, "Logicomix" from Bloomsbury, and Faber & Faber's three-book deal with the American graphic novelist Adrian Tomine.
- Marjane Satrapi at Cannes: An Iranian graphic novelist's coming of age