Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge on Tuesday for a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people at Russia's busiest airport and underscored the Kremlin's failure to stem a rising tide of attacks.

Reuters - Thousands of Egyptians demanded an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and three people were killed in unprecedented countrywide protests on Tuesday inspired by the revolt that brought down Tunisia's president.

Reuters - Tunisia's interim government will be reshuffled on Wednesday, ministers said after protesters demanding a purge of former regime loyalists clashed with fellow Tunisians urging an end to the demonstrations.

Reuters - Hundreds of angry protesters burned tyres and blocked roads across Lebanon on Tuesday after a Hezbollah-backed politician was named prime minister, shifting the balance of power in the country toward Syria and Iran.

AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed revenge Tuesday for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport — a familiar tough-on-terrorism stance that has underpinned his power but also led to a rising number of deadly attacks in Russia.

AP - Egyptian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and beat protesters to clear thousands of people from a central Cairo square Wednesday after the biggest demonstrations in years against President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule.

AP - Chile's president says he's not about to change his fun-loving ways just because some think he should play it safe.

AP - The United States expressed confidence in Egypt's government on Tuesday and urged calm amid the largest public protests in years.

AFP - Insurgents are on the retreat, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday in an upbeat assessment of the war that made no mention of a planned withdrawal.

AFP - Three Indonesian men faced an Australian court Tuesday on people-smuggling offences related to the sinking of a ship carrying scores of asylum-seekers in which about 50 people were killed.