Reuters - President George W. Bush was upstaged on Thursday as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met U.S. presidential candidates before seeing him, a stark reminder that world leaders are now looking to his successor.

Reuters - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said U.S. attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had been counterproductive.

Reuters - A U.S. plan to cap rising greenhouse gases by 2025 drew criticisms as too little, too late from delegates at 17-nation climate talks in Paris on Thursday but some welcomed it as a first firm U.S. ceiling.

AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 51 people in one of the biggest insurgent attacks in violence-torn Iraq this year.

Reuters - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 50 mourners and wounding 55 in an attack that suggests militants have launched a new campaign of violence in the north.

AP - Marc Staal pushed the New York Rangers within a win of the second round, and he did it with a good old slap shot.

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically Wednesday night that Barack Obama can win the White House this fall, undercutting her efforts to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination by suggesting he would lead the party to defeat.

AFP - The Gaza Strip braced for more violence Thursday after three Israeli soldiers and 17 Palestinians, one a cameraman for an international news agency, were killed in a helicopter-backed incursion.

Reuters - Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tried to clarify recent controversial comments during a tense debate on Wednesday, with Obama accusing Clinton of playing politics with his remarks on small-town residents.