ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday, the military said.

AP - Texans weary of high electric bills and environmentalists who fought TXU Corp.'s plans for more coal-fired power plants offered only muted criticism Monday of the proposed takeover of the state's largest electric utility.

AP - A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, the FBI announced Friday.

AP - Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire scored 23 points apiece and the Phoenix Suns easily overcame the absence of Shawn Marion to beat the Indiana Pacers for the second time in four days, 115-90 on Friday night.

Reuters - Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday, the military said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Norman Rockwell painting stolen more three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, but the Oscar-winning filmmaker acquired it legally, the FBI said on Friday.

AP - Fierce wind blew snow across roads and stranded hundreds of drivers on Midwestern highways Friday, as thousands shivered without power and airlines were forced to call off hundreds of flights.

AP - A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years, officials working on the project said Friday.

AP - They came in droves, regulars and first-timers, children, parents and grandparents, to order burgers, fries and milkshakes at the first Wendy's restaurant, closing Friday after 37 years downtown because of persistent lagging sales.

Reuters - A Norman Rockwell painting stolen more three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, but the Oscar-winning filmmaker acquired it legally, the FBI said on Friday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan was braced on Saturday for reprisals from militants after the capture of one of the Taliban's three most senior leaders earlier this week.

BATO-BATO, Philippines (Reuters) - Villagers sang ancient tribal songs and schoolgirls waved paper flags on Saturday to mark the end of U.S-Philippine military exercises on an island that is a bastion of Islamic rebels.

AP - Six Sunni men who had received death threats for meeting with local Shiites were killed Saturday in execution-style slayings, police said.

AP - At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash has left an entire campus feeling a profound sense of loss.

AP - Betty Thomas' house was without power, battered by a tornado that killed eight students at a nearby high school.

AP - California's workplace safety office rescinded a report issued earlier this week on a whale attack at SeaWorld Adventure Park, agreeing with SeaWorld officials' claims that the office was unsuited to recommend changes in how to deal with whales.

AP - Norman Rockwell paintings often resonate because of their depictions of everyday life, but the life of one of his paintings has been anything but mundane.

AP - Miami and Phoenix were both missing an All-Star, so their other key players stepped up to make sure it didn't matter. Washington finally had its stars in the lineup, and that was enough against the slumping Hawks.

Reuters - Pakistan was braced on Saturday for reprisals from militants after the capture of one of the Taliban's three most senior leaders earlier this week.

Reuters - Villagers sang ancient tribal songs and schoolgirls waved paper flags on Saturday to mark the end of U.S-Philippine military exercises on an island that is a bastion of Islamic rebels.

AP - A criminal court on Saturday acquitted two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners of joining al-Qaida or the Taliban.

AFP - The Foreign Office confirmed Saturday that a team of British officials had arrived in Addis Ababa as a manhunt was stepped up for those behind the kidnapping of a group of Westerners.

AFP - At least 21 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, and dozens more are still missing, officials said Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, and the Iraqi government said 39 militants had been killed in volatile western Anbar province in recent fighting.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A large portrait of Mike Mansfield, dogged Democratic foe of the Vietnam war, hangs near the Senate chamber where a new generation of Democrats is trying to stop another unpopular conflict -- in Iraq.

AP - President Bush was to visit this tornado-ravaged town on Saturday, a day after Gov. Bob Riley toured its heavily damaged school and devastated neighborhoods.

AP - It began with reports of mice and moldy plaster, but after two weeks of outrage, the scandal over poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has claimed several careers — including the secretary of the Army's.

AP - Gunmen stormed the home of a Sunni family threatened with death for meeting with local Shiites, separating out the women and children and executing six men on Saturday, Iraqi police and military officials said.

AP - Anna Nicole Smith — dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket — was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.

AP - The teenager who killed five people in a Utah shopping mall and died in a police shootout was buried Saturday in his native village in eastern Bosnia.

AP - Elizabeth Hurley married an Indian businessman in a private civil ceremony at a 15-century castle, and photographers and spectators descended Saturday on this quiet town in western England to catch a glimpse of their lavish wedding party.

AP - Julia Mancuso won a downhill Saturday, moving closer to her ultimate goal of winning the overall World Cup title, and Renate Goetschl finished second to take the season's discipline title.

Reuters - A U.S. air strike killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters in Iraq, and the Iraqi government said 39 militants had been killed in volatile western Anbar province in recent fighting.

Reuters - By acknowledging doubts about what it knows of North Korea's uranium enrichment program, the United States aims to set the record straight and ease resolution of an issue that has been a key obstacle to a nuclear agreement since 2002, U.S. officials and experts say.

Reuters - A large portrait of Mike Mansfield, dogged Democratic foe of the Vietnam war, hangs near the Senate chamber where a new generation of Democrats is trying to stop another unpopular conflict -- in Iraq.

AFP - At least 40 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, and dozens more are still missing, officials said Saturday.

AP - On a mournful mission, President Bush climbed over piles of concrete, roofing, insulation, broken glass and textbooks Saturday that littered Enterprise High School, battered by a tornado that killed eight students.

AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday he will reshuffle his Cabinet in coming days, as his government faces mounting U.S. pressure to take greater responsibility for security and other efforts to stabilize the country.

AP - Anna Nicole Smith — dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket — was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.

AP - Investigators found what is believed to be the torso of a mother of two who disappeared last month and they were seeking her husband as the suspect in her slaying, authorities said Saturday.

AFP - A team of British officials arrived in Ethiopia on Saturday to help in the hunt for at least five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians feared kidnapped in the remote northeast of the country.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.

ENTERPRISE, Alabama (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday got a first-hand look at the damage from deadly tornadoes in the southern United States and said while buildings could be rebuilt the biggest impact was on shattered lives.

PARIS (Reuters) - Locusts crawl over a giant screen at Alexander McQueen's show, tango dancers swirl over the catwalk at Kenzo, and it snows paper flakes at Chanel.

AP - Gunmen stormed the home of a Sunni family threatened with death for meeting with local Shiites, separating out the women and children and executing six men on Saturday, Iraqi police and military officials said. Also Saturday, three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb that exploded while they were on patrol in central Baghdad, the military said.

AP - At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash has left an entire campus feeling a profound sense of loss.

AP - Ah, youth, that fickle force in politics. Young people bring energy, passion, creativity and technical wizardry to the presidential campaign — everything, it seems, except impact on Election Day.

AP - She's a climber with heart, and it's not even her own.

AP - Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.

AP - Roger Federer won the Dubai Open for the fourth time in five years on Saturday, beating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 6-4, 6-3 in the final.

Reuters - U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.

Reuters - President George W. Bush on Saturday got a first-hand look at the damage from deadly tornadoes in the southern United States and said while buildings could be rebuilt the biggest impact was on shattered lives.

Reuters - Locusts crawl over a giant screen at Alexander McQueen's show, tango dancers swirl over the catwalk at Kenzo, and it snows paper flakes at Chanel.

AP - President Bush handed out hugs Saturday to people in the South who survived killer tornadoes and he mourned the score, including eight high school students, who died in the storms.

AP - At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash has left an entire campus feeling a profound sense of loss.

AP - Pakistan vehemently denied Saturday the U.S. military's claim that coalition forces in Afghanistan have the authority to pursue Taliban fleeing across the border into Pakistani territory.

AP - Investigators found what is believed to be the torso of a mother of two who disappeared last month and they were seeking her husband as the suspect in her slaying, authorities said Saturday.

AP - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed free-agent quarterback Jeff Garcia and potentially nabbed even more competition for incumbent starter Chris Simms by obtaining the rights to Jake Plummer from Denver on Saturday.

AFP - A senior Ethiopian official accused soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea on Saturday of kidnapping a group of mainly British tourists whose tour vehicles were found destroyed near the border.

AFP - President George W. Bush Saturday declared a major disaster in an Alabama county hit by deadly tornadoes whipped up by a storm system which killed 22 people in the US and Canada.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A senior Ethiopian official accused Eritrean forces on Saturday of kidnapping five Britons and 13 Ethiopians and taking them to a military camp in neighboring Eritrea.

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. spring-breakers are guzzling beers and slamming back tequilas in the Mexican Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, unfazed by a violent drug war that has killed police and left body parts strewn about town.

AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he will reshuffle his Cabinet within two weeks and pursue criminal charges against political figures linked to extremists as a sign of his government's resolve to restore stability during the U.S.-led security crackdown in Baghdad.

AP - In the science wing at Enterprise High School, students huddled in the protection of an interior hallway, joking around, thinking about how hungry they were and hoping they would get a half-day off.

AP - Tony Moore and his college baseball teammates were jolted awake when their bus slammed against a concrete barrier and dropped off an overpass. Two students were trapped, one player had already died and diesel fuel was leaking, survivors and family members said.

Reuters - U.S. spring-breakers are guzzling beers and slamming back tequilas in the Mexican Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, unfazed by a violent drug war that has killed police and left body parts strewn about town.

AP - Jon Brockman and Spencer Hawes combined for 33 points and 28 rebounds and led Washington to its biggest win of the season, a 61-51 upset of No. 2 UCLA on Saturday. The Huskies (18-12, 8-10 Pac-10), physically matched the Bruins' grind-it-out style. UCLA (26-4, 15-3), already the Pac-10 champions, saw its five-game winning streak end.

AFP - President George W. Bush Saturday toured the rubble of an Alabama high school in which eight students were killed by deadly tornadoes as he made an emotional visit to the ravaged region.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani, virtually tied with John McCain in a January poll, held a 25-point lead over the Arizona senator in a Newsweek magazine survey released on Saturday.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (Reuters) - For the first time since 1990, the percentage of adults who drink a daily cup of coffee exceeds those who drink a soft drink every day, the National Coffee Association of USA said on Saturday.

AP - Gunmen rounded up a Sunni family that had received death threats for joining U.S.-organized talks with local Shiites, hauling away the men and boys and killing all six Saturday as suspected insurgents expanded a campaign of fear against opponents.

AP - Tony Moore and his college baseball teammates were jolted awake when their bus slammed against a concrete barrier and dropped off an overpass. At least two students were trapped, one player had already died and diesel fuel was leaking, survivors and family members said.

AP - Elizabeth Hurley married an Indian businessman in a private civil ceremony at a 15th-century castle, and photographers and spectators descended Saturday on this quiet town in western England to catch a glimpse of their lavish wedding party.

Reuters - U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.

Reuters - Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani, virtually tied with John McCain in a January poll, held a 25-point lead over the Arizona senator in a Newsweek magazine survey released on Saturday.

AFP - President George W. Bush walked through the ruins of homes and a high school Saturday in an emotional tour of southern states ravaged by tornadoes and vowed to help rebuild shattered lives.

AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Saudi Arabia late Saturday after talks with King Abdullah which had been expected to focus on the sectarian bloodshed in Iraq, the crisis in Lebanon and Tehran's nuclear row with the West.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers failed on Saturday to settle all their differences over a second U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear work but remain committed to passing one soon, the United States said.

AP - An al-Qaida-affiliated group said Saturday it killed 18 kidnapped government security forces in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police, posting an online video of the officers being shot in the back of their heads while kneeling in a field.

AP - Iraq's prime minister said Saturday he will reshuffle his Cabinet within two weeks and pursue criminal charges against political figures linked to extremists as a sign of his government's resolve to restore stability during the U.S.-led security crackdown in Baghdad.

AP - In the science wing at Enterprise High School, Marisa Younanian huddled for hours with her classmates in the protection of an interior hallway as tornado sirens wailed throughout town. They joked and thought about how hungry they were.

AP - The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.

AP - A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said.

AP - Greg Oden took long strides walking up the tunnel out of Crisler Arena, and onto a warm bus. The freshman star hopes to help No. 1 Ohio State take bigger steps this month in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.

Reuters - Major powers failed on Saturday to settle all their differences over a second U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear work but remain committed to passing one soon, the United States said.

Reuters - In a political landscape populated by Bushes, Kennedys and Clintons, the children and kinfolk of longtime U.S. politicians do indeed have a better shot at winning elective office, but not necessarily at holding on or moving up, experts say.

JOLO, Philippines (Reuters) - The warlike tribesmen of the southern Philippines have a long memory, especially when it comes to their enemies.

AP - Owners of the Sahara Hotel and Casino, a Rat Pack hangout and the setting of the original 'Ocean's Eleven' film, have agreed to sell the aging property to an investor group.

AP - Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone wants to be friends again with Tom Cruise. The actor's behavior over his romance with Katie Holmes and his aggressive defense of Scientology were reasons cited by Redstone when he broke ties with Cruise last year after a long and lucrative relationship at Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures.

Reuters - The warlike tribesmen of the southern Philippines have a long memory, especially when it comes to their enemies.

AFP - The United States and five other world powers agreed to send the issue of Iran's disputed nuclear program to their UN representatives, after failing to resolve differences, the US State Department said.