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US, India sign historic nuclear deal (AFP)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) shakes hands with Indian External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) during a joint press conferece after the Indo-US nuclear meeting on October 4, 2008. Rice and Mukherjee signed a pact Friday to open up sales of civilian nuclear technology to India for the first time in three decades.(AFP/Raveendran)AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee signed a pact Friday to open up sales of civilian nuclear technology to India for the first time in three decades.


Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen (AP)

This file photo, originally supplied by the U.S. Navy, shows an officer of a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitoring the hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia, Sept. 30, 2008, while a helicopter flies nearby. NATO agreed Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008, to send warships to help U.S. Navy vessels already patrolling the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, where dozens of bodies were found after smugglers apparently threw 150 Somali migrants overboard near Yemen, according to authorities. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Petty Officer 2nd  Class Jason R. Zalasky, File)AP - Dozens of bodies washed ashore Friday in Yemen after smugglers threw nearly 150 Somali migrants overboard in shark-infested waters, the latest such tragedy in one of the most lawless stretches of ocean in the world.


It's l'amour for Chinese wedding couples (AFP)

Newly-wed young Chinese couples wave in front of the Tours city hall, in France Loire's Valley after a wedding ceremony celebrated by the city mayor Jean Germain. Forty Chinese couples paid more than 3,000 euros (4,000 dollars) for the trip to France to realize their dream.(AFP/Alain Jocard)AFP - The forty couples may have already tied the knot at home but, for these young Chinese, getting married in France was a dream come true.


PM: No early elections in Ukraine (AP)

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during a news conference in Kiev October 7, 2008. (Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)AP - Ukraine's prime minister said Friday there will be no early parliamentary elections, defying a presidential decree and raising the stakes in her fierce political battle with the president.


Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar (AP)

A Mexican police vehicle that was used by alleged drug dealers during a shoot-out in May 2008. Attackers -- dressed as police -- killed 11 people when they opened fire in a bar in Mexico's northern Chihuahua state.(AFP/File/Omar Torres)AP - Gunmen opened fire at a bar in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, killing 11 people, officials said Friday.


Hijackers of ship off Somalia issue ultimatum (AP)

This photo provided by the US Navy on October 5, 2008 shows some of the Somali pirates and some of the crewmembers on the upper deck aboard the Belize-flagged Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina off of Somalia's Indian Ocean coast. Talks aimed at freeing a Ukrainian arms ship being held by Somali pirates collapsed on Friday, a spokesman for the pirates told AFP, deepening the two-week stand-off.(AFP/HO/File)AP - The pirates who hijacked an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker off Somalia issued an ultimatum Friday and threatened to destroy the ship if no ransom is paid, a spokesman for the bandits said.


Israeli hospital hosts cancer-stricken Iranian boy (AP) AP - The head of an Israeli hospital where an Iranian boy is being treated for a brain tumor said Friday he hoped the gesture will help improve understanding between the bitterly divided countries.
Chinese tighten dairy regulations after scandal (AP)

A Chinese couple buy yogurt at a supermarket in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments. (AP Photo)AP - China's State Council tightened quality control regulations for the dairy industry Friday, as authorities in Macau and Hong Kong reported several children had kidney stones blamed on Chinese tainted milk.


In food crisis, Cuba limits sales so all can eat (AP)

Chives for sale are seen at a public market in Havana, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables citizens can buy at farmers' markets after two hurricanes wiped out more than 30 percent of the island's crops last month.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around.


Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Former Finland President Martti Ahtisaari speaks at a seminar called Kosovo Today - the Way Ahead organised by The Finnish Institute of International affairs (FIIA), in Helsinki on March 7, 2008.  Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize 2008 it is announced on Friday Oct. 10, 2008, in Oslo. (AP Photo / LEHTIKUVA, Markku Ulander)AP - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.