The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.

Ida strengthened back into a tropical storm early on Saturday off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was moving north toward the Cayman Islands, where the government issued a tropical storm warning.

British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal on tackling climate change as developing nations held firm they did not want to talk about it.

NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Saturday.

Joe Jackson, the elderly father of late pop star Michael Jackson, Friday filed a court petition seeking an allowance from the singer's estate, saying his son had supported him for many years.

Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad Hariri was preparing to announce a new government on Saturday after granting concessions to his rivals in the Hezbollah-led opposition on key cabinet posts.

The International Criminal Court prosecutor believes he has a strong case against a few people for crimes committed during Kenya's post-election violence and he will move fast to avoid a repeat at the 2012 election.

President Barack Obama urged Democrats in the House to pass a broad healthcare reform bill Saturday as they prepared for a close vote on the biggest changes in health policy in four decades.

An laid-off employee is under arrest after a man opened fire at an engineering consulting firm in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.

Guards at the United Nations whisked away a UN-accredited Canadian commentator this week after she denounced a controversial report that focuses heavily on alleged Israeli war crimes.

A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm.

President Barack Obama Friday listed a range of fresh options being considered by the White House to spur growth after "sobering" news that unemployment spiked to a 26 1/2-year peak last month.

The death toll left by an army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage at a U.S. military base in Texas rose to 13 on Friday, U.S. media reported.

Somali pirates have threatened to kill three captive crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, a senior officer aboard the vessel said on Friday.

U.S. government-to-government arms sales rose 4.7 per cent to a record $38.1 billion last year, and are expected to total almost as much in 2010, the Pentagon agency that administers the

The British military's climate change czar says he doesn't expect next month's UN talks in Copenhagen to produce a decisive breakthrough in the battle to reduce harmful greenhouse gases.

Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives scrambled on Friday to allay lingering concerns about a broad health care overhaul and said a landmark vote planned for Saturday could slip a day or more.

Ukraine could delay a January presidential election until May next year if the government fails to control an outbreak of H1N1 flu, a senior official wrote on the respected news Web site Ukrainska Pravda on Friday.

More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search on Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said.

A photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, which for many years was thought by conspiracy theorists to be forged by authorities, is real, says an American computer scientist.