17 Communist Leaders Arrested

Washington's top social event of the season is the wedding of Commie-hunting Senator Joseph "Tail Gunner Joe" McCarthy and Jean Kerr, a former aide and one-time University beauty queen.

Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang are tipped for future leadership and their vision, while emphasising that wealth needs to be spread more equally does not seemingly encompass any turning back on the reforms that have made China a global trading power house.

The arrest in Cambodia of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader has surprised many in the kingdom and bolstered the image of the long-delayed tribunal. The man once known as "Brother Number Two" has been formally charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Observers hailed his arrest as a step forward but many ordinary Cambodians still feel it is too little too late. An AFPTV voiced report.

McCain took direct aim at Obama in his victory remarks, previewing a possible general election match-up.

It's not an ordinary train. Along this scenic rail line in the rolling hills of Budapest, 10- to 14-year-old children are in charge. They operate the switches, schedule the trains, and sell the tickets. They do pretty much everything except drive the engines. It's a nearly 60-year-old tradition dreamt up by Communist authorities to instil work ethic in the young -- but a dream ride for children. A voiced report.

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened the European Union with grave punishment on Wednesday over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. In an audio recording posted on the Internet, Bin Laden said the cartoons were part of a "crusade" in which he said the Catholic Pope Benedict was involved. The message was released on the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

It's the first time New Zealand has used anti-terrorism legislation, though its understood that none of those arrested are being held on terror-related charges. Local media report that one of those in custody is a prominent activist of the indigenous Maori people. New Zealand has no history of domestic-related terrorism.

The leaders of the renegade troops, who were joined by opposition leaders and left-wingers after taking over a luxury hotel in Manila, were urging the military to rise up against the government. A curfew has been imposed in the wake of the mutiny and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo says the soldiers will be charged over their actions.

The 78-year-old French-educated guerrilla leader was whisked from a Phnom Penh hospital by police convoy to the tribunal compound to face a panel of investigating judges probing one of the 20th century's darkest chapters. Roughly a quarter of the Cambodian population perished during the Khmer Rouge's four year reign of terror, which began in the mid-1970s and only ended when neighbouring Vietnam invaded to topple the regime.