Life sentence for gun factory man
A man who turned replica guns into live weapons linked to more than 50 shootings, including eight murders, is jailed for life.

Bill Clinton hails Barack Obama
Bill Clinton resoundingly endorses Barack Obama, who is formally nominated by US Democrats as their presidential candidate.

Arson house 'could be searched today'
Police hope to be able to enter the home of a missing family that was destroyed in an arson attack as early as tonight.

Hacker loses extradition appeal
A Briton accused of hacking into secret Nasa military computers loses his appeal against extradition to the US.

House prices 'fall 10.5% in year'
UK house prices are down 10.5% on a year ago, the first annual double-digit fall since 1990, the Nationwide says.

Russia faces diplomatic isolation over Georgia crisis
The Group of 7 industrialized nations condemned Moscow's "continued occupation of Georgia," and a group of Asian allies led by China failed to follow Russia's lead on independence for two breakaway regions of Georgia.

NATO ships cause alarm in Moscow
Russian commanders said they were growing alarmed at the number of NATO warships sailing into the Black Sea and anchored off the western coast of Georgia.

Russia backs independence of Georgian enclaves
Russia formally recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in a challenge to the West.

Yuri Nosenko, KGB defector, said to be dead in U.S.
Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, has died under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said.

Switzerland frees millions in Zardari's assets
The accounts of Asif Ali Zardari, who is expected to become president of Pakistan, had been frozen in 1997 at the request of the authorities investigating him in a corruption case.

Moussaoui Juror Falls Ill; Deliberations to Resume Friday
Jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case headed into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday but talks halted when one juror fell ill; deliberations to resume Friday

Iran Test-Fires Another 'Top Secret' Missile
Iran's state-run television says it successfully test-fired a "top secret" missile, the third in a week.

Duke Lacrosse Coach Resigns Amid Rape Flap
University cancels remainder of season after allegations that three players raped an exotic dancer at a party.

100 Homes Threatened by Weakened Dam in Northern California
About 100 homes were being evacuated Wednesday morning as a small earthen dam in Calaveras County in northern California weakened by an overnight thunderstorm threatened to break.

Video Claims to Show Insurgents Dragging Burning Body of U.S
A poor-quality video posted on the Internet Wednesday in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.