Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top diplomat and defense chief head to Seoul this week to discuss ways to respond to North Korea and deter it from any future attack after the sinking of a South Korean warship.

Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is on course for a narrow win in an August 21 election, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, although issues such as border protection and population will be key in the campaign.

The fate of a Canadian Forces captain charged with committing a battlefield murder in Afghanistan is now in the hands of a jury of his uniformed peers.

Reuters - HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese troops evacuated thousands of people from their homes in the north of the country Sunday due to threats of flash flooding and landslides, as the death toll from Typhoon Conson rose to more than 70.

Reuters - CUPERTINO, California (Reuters) - A defiant Steve Jobs on Friday rejected any suggestion the iPhone 4's design was flawed, but offered consumers free phone cases to address reception complaints that have hurt Apple Inc's image and shares.

An RCMP forensics team combed an area west of Edmonton on Saturday where the SUV of a missing Alberta couple was found.

The company in charge of a ride that malfunctioned at the Calgary Stampede, sending six people to hospital, says the ride was inspected daily.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he'll resume direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state and agrees to the deployment of an international force to guard them.

The Canada Revenue Agency revokes the charitable status of Tamil (Sri Lanka) Refugee-Aid Society of Ottawa, saying the group has supported the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a terrorist organization.

Conditions were foggy when a float plane carrying six people hit the side of a mountain in northern Quebec, Transportation Safety Board officials said Saturday.

Reuters - PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border ambushed a convoy of vehicles being escorted by security forces on Saturday, killing 18 people, including two women, witnesses said.

A portion of Highway 40, west of North Battleford, Sask., has been closed after a Friday night downpour washed out a temporary bridge.

A Calgary teenager is dead after being hit by an LRT train early Saturday morning.

BP will monitor pressure readings from the new cap on the company's damaged oil well for an extra day after results so far showed no signs of any new leaks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament should not try to ban wearing full-length veils in public after France's lower house passed a bill which could see Muslim women fined for wearing the burqa, immigration minister Damian Green said.

Reuters - CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean security forces have uncovered a suspected armed plot to destabilize the West African country as it approaches the decisive round of a presidential election, its prime minister said on Saturday.

Reuters - HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc's critical pressure test on its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well will continue another 24 hours, through Sunday afternoon, the top official overseeing the spill response said on Saturday.

Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army has killed more than 300 fighters from Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in recent clashes and 75 of its own soldiers also died, state media reported on Saturday.

Roman Polanski, whose extradition to the U.S. was denied by Swiss authorities, was spotted at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Bikers took to Canada's busiest highway Saturday to raise money for wounded soldiers.