AP - Rallying rich and surging nations alike, President Barack Obama wants the world's top polluters to keep driving toward a deal to halt global warming.

AP - South Korea was on high alert Thursday for more cyber attacks amid suspicions that North Korea was behind a recent wave of Web site outages in the South and in the United States. The South warned that computer networks of key infrastructure could be targeted.

AP - Leaders of the exclusive club of eight industrialized nations opened up their forum Thursday to the five fastest developing market economies — Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa — tacit admission that their leadership alone is not enough to fix the world's major problems.

AP - A massive bomb blast Thursday in central Afghanistan killed 25 people including primary school students, destroying shops and scattering pieces of the vehicle that carried the explosives more than a mile away, police said. Another bombing in the south killed two NATO soldiers.

AP - A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people, authorities said.