AP – Russia’s foreign minister says Libya needs a new, democratic regime but the Libyans must form it themselves.
AP – North Korean officials sounded upbeat Wednesday after three days of talks in Germany with former U.S. officials on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and disputes between the two nations.
AP – A senior U.S. official says a proposed U.S.-South Korean free trade agreement will not provide a back door for imports to the United States from communist North Korea.
Reuters – A printing error helped a 12th century English village church realize it owned a rare 400-year-old King James Bible, the book that changed the world.
AP – NATO made it clear Thursday that rebel forces in Libya are not impervious to bombardment if they attack civilians.
Reuters – U.S. Masters debutants usually turn to their closest friends on the PGA Tour for advice about the daunting Augusta course and India’s Arjun Atwal has the ultimate mentor in four-times Masters winner Tiger Woods.
AFP – German energy group RWE said Thursday it would file a legal challenge to Berlin’s decision to shut down one of its nuclear reactors for three months, a move its rival EON has renounced.
Reuters – Prominent Jordanian journalists and rights activists staged a silent protest on Thursday over the detention in Syria of Reuters correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi, who was arrested while covering Syrian protests.
AP – Tunisian rescuers have retrieved the bodies of 27 migrants whose boats sank in the Mediterranean, as the European Union offered Thursday to double its aid to Tunisia’s poorest regions.
AP – Moussa Koussa is the ultimate Libyan insider, a one-time intelligence chief and the keeper of Moammar Gadhafi’s darkest secrets.