Bush Meets Iraqi Leader in Jordan Today President Bush, under pressure to find a new blueprint for Iraq, meets Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Wednesday in a high-stakes summit.

Jordan urges Iraq to seek unity King Abdullah of Jordan has urged Iraqi religious and political leaders not to allow their country to disintegrate.

Israel, Arabs upbeat about ME peace after EU meeting Israeli, Arab and European Union foreign ministers were unanimously upbeat about Middle East peace prospects.

Rice to tell Abbas: Don’t miss opportunity, impose order American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to tell Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting Thursday that he must increase his efforts to impose order in the Palestinian Authority.

NATO signals Afghan reinforcements NATO leaders meeting in the Latvian capital of Riga have agreed to “step up” operations in Afghanistan with a lifting of rules of engagement meaning more troops on the ground.

Turkey: Pope supports EU membership Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI told him he wanted Turkey to join the European Union.

Commentary: Russia – A gangster state? Whatever the truth behind the bizarre murder by radiation poisoning of former Russian intelligence colonel, Alexander Litvinenko, he has managed in death to tarnish the image of his country and its leaders.

Iran to host Holocaust conference Iran, which disputes that Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, is to hold a conference next month to allow historians to clarify “hidden angles” of the Holocaust.

Study Finds that a Single Impact Killed the Dinosaurs The dinosaurs, along with the majority of all other animal species on Earth, went extinct approximately 65 million years ago.

US military trains ‘air force’ of bomb-sniffing bees US military defense scientists have found a way to train the common honey bee to smell explosives used in bombs.