AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that race is not the reason he is struggling to attract working-class votes and insisted he can win over uncommitted superdelegates by showing he is best able to not just defeat John McCain, but also lead the country.

AFP - Haitian President Rene Preval has chosen Ericq Pierre, an official with the Inter-American Development Bank, to be the countrys prime minister, sources told AFP Sunday.

Reuters - Militants bombarded Baghdads Green
Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a
blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in
weeks on the fortified compound.

AP - Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesnt have a MySpace page and, while shes on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can.

AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unharmed Sunday after militants attacked a high-profile military parade with rockets and gunfire, killing three people including an MP and wounding around 10.

Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came
away disappointed from talks in Washington on
Israeli-Palestinian peace and is pessimistic about prospects
for a deal this year, aides said on Sunday.

Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped
unhurt on Sunday from an assassination attempt by Taliban
fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration
near the presidential palace in Kabul.

Reuters - Protests and scuffles greeted the Olympic
flame as it began a two-day journey on the divided Korean
peninsula on Sunday along a route guarded by thousands of riot
policeman wielding shields and truncheons.

Reuters - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
Greenspan and the government of President George W. Bush were
to blame for the U.S. financial crisis, Nobel laureate
economist Joseph Stiglitz said in a magazine interview.

Reuters - The fiancee of an unarmed man who was
killed in a hail of 50 police bullets said on Saturday the
acquittal of three officers charged in his death was like they
killed Sean all over again.