Anti-US Shia cleric Moqtadr Sadr receives a raucous welcome on his return to Najaf but urges his supporters to show "discipline".

A US student who shot two school officials, killing one, had been suspended for 19 days just before the attack, officials say.

Officials investigating the mysterious deaths of up to 100 birds in Sweden say tests reveal they suffered external injuries.

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, left him out of the will she signed days before she died last month.

Opposition politicians take up their seats in the new National Assembly in Venezuela, the first in five years to have substantial opposition representation.

Officials shut 4,700 farms in Germany amid a scandal over animal feed contaminated with the poisonous chemical dioxin.

The Dominican Republic launches its first major operation against illegal Haitian immigrants since it stopped deporting them after last year's earthquake.

A Los Angeles judge dismisses the drug conspiracy convictions of the boyfriend and psychiatrist of late model Anna Nicole Smith.