Boris Tadic, Serbia's pro-Western president, is declaring victory in the country's parliamentary elections.

U.N. and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk killing at least 11 people.

Security officials say heavy fighting has broken out in the mountains overlooking Beirut between supporters of the Western-backed government and opposition followers.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says a cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk.

Gunmen are off the streets and shops are open again today in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Myanmar's state television says the death toll in last week's cyclone has jumped by about 5,000.

A curfew in the Sudanese capital has been lifted a day after Khartoum was assaulted by rebels.

The U.S. military says four people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in a new operation near Mosul.

An international aid group warns that as many as one and a-half million people in Myanmar could die from disease if they don't get clean water and sanitation soon.

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in an accident in Iraq.