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Roger Federer's reign as world number one comes under threat after he loses to Ivo Karlovic in the Cincinnati Masters.

AP - A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.

Police say they are treating the death of a man at a flat in Hull as suspicious.

AFP - Cubans may not know the ultimate resting place of Fidel Castro, but there is no mystery surrounding the future repose of his brother and successor as president, Raul Castro.

Demand for hotels in Northern Ireland is outstripping demand in the Republic of Ireland.

AP - President Bush has countered critics who claim his global war on terrorism has lessened Washington's role in Asia and allowed China's influence to grow in the region, news reports said Friday.

Al-Qaeda says one of its commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Abdullah al-Shami, has been killed in a US air strike.

AFP - Israel was bracing on Thursday for weeks of political turmoil after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's shock announcement that he would step down in September, casting a shadow over Middle East peacemaking.

AP - Mexican police say they have captured a Colombian cartel operative who served as a liaison to a Mexican drug gang.

Not so many years ago, respectable people seemed to agree where the world was headed. Communism had fallen to capitalism, and a particular strain of capitalism -- the entrepreneurial, market-driven capitalism found in the United States and Britain -- had proven itself superior to the more corpora...