• Fla. teen commits suicide with live Web audience 11/22/2008, 4:39 a.m. EST
MIAMI (AP) — A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home — a scene also captured on the Internet — it was too late.

• Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe 11/22/2008, 4:35 a.m. EST
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the impoverished African country.

• Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan 11/22/2008, 4:29 a.m. EST
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed five militants in a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.

• Tibetan exiles agree to follow 'middle path' 11/22/2008, 4:24 a.m. EST
DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Delegates say that exiled Tibetan leaders meeting on how to advance their struggle for freedom have agreed to keep following the Dalai Lama's path of compromise with China.

• Obama moves quickly to fill Cabinet positions 11/22/2008, 4:23 a.m. EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday.

• APNewsAlert 11/22/2008, 4:14 a.m. EST
DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Delegates: Tibetans agree to pursue Dalai Lama's goal of autonomy not independence from China

• Albuquerque student helps bring books to Ethiopia 11/22/2008, 3:52 a.m. EST
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — When Yohannes Gebregeorgis talks about books, it becomes clear that what he values is their power to convey new ideas to readers, who he hopes one day will bring about social change in his native country of Ethiopia.

• Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair 11/22/2008, 3:35 a.m. EST
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint.

• Roadside bomb kills 2 civilians in Afghanistan 11/22/2008, 3:27 a.m. EST
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb exploded next to a vegetable market in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday, killing two people, officials said.

• Rwanda protocol chief says she'll prove innocence 11/22/2008, 3:18 a.m. EST
PARIS (AP) — She knew she risked arrest, and yet she made the trip. Sure enough, police picked her up at the airport.

• Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time 11/22/2008, 3:11 a.m. EST
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert heads to Washington this week for his final meeting with President George W. Bush, two lame-duck leaders looking to leave a blueprint for fulfilling their ambitious — but unrealized — Mideast agendas.

• Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time 11/22/2008, 3:11 a.m. EST
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert heads to Washington this week for his final meeting with President George W. Bush, two lame-duck leaders looking to leave a blueprint for fulfilling their ambitious — but unrealized — Mideast agendas.

• Army wife accused in arson that killed her 2 kids 11/22/2008, 3:10 a.m. EST
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said.

• Iraq's prime minister, president in public quarrel 11/22/2008, 3:05 a.m. EST
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's presidential council has taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing the Shiite prime minister after he berated them for their opposition to councils of loyal tribesmen in several Iraqi provinces.

• AF APNewsAlert 11/22/2008, 2:31 a.m. EST
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Carter, Annan say they have been refused entry to Zimbabwe for humanitarian mission

• Man charged with spying for Israel hanged in Iran 11/22/2008, 2:21 a.m. EST
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian judiciary spokesman says a man convicted of spying for Israel has been hanged.

• Grenade wounds 8 outside Thai PM office 11/22/2008, 1:34 a.m. EST
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A grenade attack on anti-government protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's office wounded eight people early Saturday, officials said.

• Congo rebels to hold rally in seized territory 11/22/2008, 1:31 a.m. EST
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congo's rebel leader is expected to hold his first public rally Saturday in the territory his fighters seized during a lightning advance last month in the eastern part of the country.

• NY, Fla. art dealer accused of selling forgeries 11/22/2008, 1:23 a.m. EST
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent New York and Miami art dealer was arrested Friday on charges of selling forged paintings bearing the names of famous artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Tom Wesselmann.

• Malaysia Islamic body bans yoga for Muslims 11/22/2008, 12:48 a.m. EST
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's top Islamic body on Saturday ruled against Muslims practicing yoga, saying it has elements of other religions that could corrupt Muslims.

• Germany drops attempt to ban Scientology 11/22/2008, 12:09 a.m. EST
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Germany is dropping its pursuit of a ban on Scientology after finding insufficient evidence of illegal activity, security officials said Friday. Domestic intelligence services will continue to monitor the group, officials said. The German branch of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology has been under observation by domestic intelligence services for more than a decade. Top security officials asked state governments in December to begin gathering information on whether they had sufficient grounds to seek a ban.

• Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law 11/22/2008, 12:05 a.m. EST
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.

• Mexican crash probe finds fault in pilot training 11/21/2008, 11:59 p.m. EST
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they have found evidence of irregularities in the training records of at least one of the pilots handling a jet that crashed earlier this month, killing Mexico's interior secretary.

• Bush rallies China's help on North Korea 11/21/2008, 11:52 p.m. EST
LIMA, Peru (AP) — In a last dash of diplomacy, President George W. Bush on Friday sought China's help in pinning down North Korea to keep its shaky promises of nuclear disarmament.

• Grand jury returns indictment vs. Iowa meatpacker 11/21/2008, 11:45 p.m. EST
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal grand jury has issued a 12-count indictment alleging that managers were intricately involved in efforts to employ illegal workers at a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of one of the nation's largest immigration raids.