AP: Seven men were convicted on terror charges Wednesday in Paris for helping funnel fighters to Iraq — a case that exposed how the war has sucked in radical youths from Europe.
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International Herald Tribune: A bomb blamed by local authorities on the Basque separatist group ETA exploded early Wednesday outside a police barracks in the Basque region of northern Spain, killing one policeman and wounding four others, the Spanish authorities said.
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BBC: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States, Israel and Britain on Tuesday of being responsible for a blast that killed 14 Iranians. (read the article)
AFP: The US has referred five accused co-conspirators in the September 11 attacks for military trial but dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" without explanation, the Pentagon said Tuesday.(read the article)
BBC: The American government has given no reason why charges against the man it has alleged was the "20th hijacker" in the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US have been dropped. (read the article)
AP: Islamia (HuJI), operating from Bangladesh, is believed to be behind the serial blasts that rocked the tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, killing nearly 50 people besides injuring several others.
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Alsahwa.net: Yemeni state security court of appeals reduced on Monday the primary sentence issued against a attacker of the U.S. embassy in Yemen from five years to three years.
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AP: The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
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AFP: Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested 12 people over a deadly mosque bombing in April in the southern city of Shiraz who had confessed to being trained and financed by the United States and Britain.
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Eyewitness Recalls Devastation(2:46) "Only On The Web": Peter Ford, Beijing Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor tells CBS News about the horrors faced by rescue workers in central China's earthquake zone.