AP - Authorities kept watch Saturday over a stretch of Southern California beaches, scanning the waters for a shark they believe killed a triathlete a day earlier.

AP - Conservatives consolidated their control of Irans legislature in runoff elections but moderates within the bloc opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged as a stronger force, according to final results released Saturday.

Reuters - Turkey said its warplanes struck
Kurdish separatist targets inside northern Iraq on Friday and
Saturday in what military sources called the biggest Turkish
air operation in northern Iraq this year.

Reuters - Fifteen Mexican drug gang
members were killed in a gun battle near the U.S. border on
Saturday, their bodies soaked in blood in the road after one of
the deadliest shootouts in Mexicos three-year-long narco-war.

AP - Tegan and Sara, the identical twin powerpop duo, are accustomed to writing intimate, emotional songs about heartbreak. But when performing, for every song like Back in Your Head, theres a balance of silliness. Between nearly every song played by the singing-songwriting pair, the two casually ? often hysterically ? banter back and forth in what amounts to indie musics answer to Laurel and Hardy.

Reuters - President Robert Mugabes party has
failed to win control of Zimbabwes parliament in a partial
recount of the March 29 election, results showed on Saturday,
confirming the ruling partys first defeat in 28 years.

Reuters - President George W. Bush pressed
Congress on Saturday to pass legislation to ease a credit
crunch in the $85 billion student loan market that could make
it harder for students to go to college.

AFP - Tibets spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has been pushing for talks with China on the future of his homeland for years but now is making clear they must be serious discussions.

Reuters - Chinese media kept up its tough
language on the Dalai Lama on Saturday, a day after a surprise
offer of talks with his envoys, as analysts expressed caution
about whether dialogue would ease tensions in Tibet.

Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on
Friday he would fine-tune his U.S. presidential campaign and
remind voters of his humble roots after a defeat in
Pennsylvania fueled in part by his failure to win over
working-class voters.