AFP - Eleven people were due to appear in a London court charged in connection with an alleged plot by Islamist fanatics to use suicide bombers to blow US-bound airliners out of the sky.

AFP - Italy has offered to lead a peacekeeping force for Lebanon to shore up a tenuous UN-brokered truce, which was rattled further with the killing of two Hezbollah guerrillas by Israeli troops.

Reuters - Italy said on Tuesday it would contribute 2,000 to 3,000 troops, about one third of the European contribution, to a U.N. force for Lebanon provided Israel did not violate the truce.

AP - Sorry Sean Payton. Your head coaching debut with the New Orleans Saints will be a little overshadowed by a Southern California/Rose Bowl mini-reunion featuring Reggie Bush, LenDale White and Vince Young.

AP - Madonna struck a pose as Marie Antoinette in a performance of her "Vogue" video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards. Now, Kirsten Dunst is doing it — in the pages of Vogue magazine.

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accepted an emerging Mideast cease-fire deal and informed the United States of his decision, Israeli officials said Friday.

AP - An Israeli drone fired at a convoy fleeing attacks in southern Lebanon, killing at least one refugee and wounding others, witnesses and hospital officials said.

AP - Near the heart of the war zone, the Dana Hotel — once a weekend getaway from the hubbub of Beirut — was empty, both swimming pools drained and not even a caretaker around.

The United States and France said Friday they have agreed on a final text of a resolution that would end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. As Israeli forces massed along the border with Lebanon, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AP that Israel was still open to a negotiated solution. CNN understands the U.N. deal would create a 400-square-mile zone from which Hezbollah militia would be excluded.

Reuters - The mayor of Tyre said the port city could run out of food in two days and humanitarian agencies tried to get aid to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in southern Lebanon on Friday.

The United States and France said Friday they have agreed on a final text of a resolution that would end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. CNN's Brent Sadler cited sources close to the negotiations who said the deal would create a 400-square-mile zone from which Hezbollah militia would be excluded. as Israeli forces massed along the border with Lebanon, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AP that Israel was still open to a negotiated solution.

Reuters - A lot more than the treacherous Florida Straits separates Miami's Cuban exiles from their homeland just 90 miles off the southern tip of Florida.

Israel began an expanded ground offensive in southern Lebanon today after expressing dissatisfaction over an emerging cease-fire deal in the United Nations, according to The Associated Press. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman, Asaf Shariv, told AP the expanded incursion had already begun.

Israel began an expanded ground offensive in southern Lebanon on today after expressing dissatisfaction over an emerging cease-fire deal in the United Nations, according to The Associated Press. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman, Asaf Shariv, told AP the expanded incursion had already begun.

AP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided Friday to launch an expanded ground offensive in southern Lebanon after expressing dissatisfaction over an emerging cease-fire deal, government officials said.

The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital were rocked by at least 11 explosions Friday morning as Israeli air strikes pounded the city, heralding a 31st day of fighting between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.

The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital were rocked by at least 11 explosions Friday morning as Israeli air strikes pounded the city, heralding a 31st day of fighting between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.

Nato says a suicide bomber has killed one of its soldiers in an attack on a convoy in southern Afghanistan.

The southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital were rocked by at least 11 explosions Friday morning as Israeli air strikes pounded the city, heralding a 31st day of fighting between the Jewish state and Hezbollah.

AFP - A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-filled car near a NATO vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing one of the alliance's soldiers, NATO said in a statement.