AP - Heavy snow was forecast for the Central and Northern Plains, with the heaviest snow expected to fall in Kansas and Nebraska Monday afternoon.

AP - Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington and its allies feared militants could inflict global economic devastation with a high seas assault in the Malacca Strait in Southeast Asia — one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

AP - Slobodan Milosevic was laid to rest Saturday beneath a tree at the family estate in his hometown, a quiet end for a man blamed for ethnic wars that killed 250,000 people in one of the turbulent Balkans' bloodiest chapters.

AP - Mourners gathered in central Belgrade on Saturday for a final farewell to Slobodan Milosevic, who died while on trial for some of Europe's worst atrocities since World War II.

AFP - The communist regime of Laos has opened its four-day party congress to set the course the isolated and poverty-stricken Southeast Asian country for the next five years.

AP - In his 71 years, Nikolai Azhenilok has never felt happier and more secure than under the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko.

AP - Ecuador's interior minister resigned Wednesday as protests over a U.S. free trade plan spread from the Andean highlands to the oil-producing southeast jungle, where police clashed with demonstrators.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Sweden (AHN) - Sweden reports its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain, saying European laboratory tests confirmed two wild birds found dead in the southeast were infected with the virus. Meanwhile, Afghan authorities say preliminary test results...

Former Yugoslav leader and war crimes defendant Slobodan Milosevic will be buried in his hometown of Pozarevac southeast of Belgrade, officials say. Meanwhile, a Russian doctor who examined Milosevic's autopsy results agreed that Milosevic died of a heart attack -- but said treatment in Moscow could have saved him.

AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned that there could be no "business as usual" in Southeast Asia while Myanmar remains a military dictatorship.

Former Yugoslav leader and war crimes defendant Slobodan Milosevic will be buried in his hometown of Pozarevac southeast of Belgrade, officials say. Meanwhile, a Russian doctor who examined Milosevic's autopsy results agreed that Milosevic died of a heart attack -- but said treatment in Moscow could have saved him.

Former Yugoslav leader and war crimes defendant Slobodan Milosevic will be buried in his hometown of Pozarevac southeast of Belgrade, officials say. Meanwhile, a Russian doctor who examined Milosevic's autopsy results agreed that Milosevic died of a heart attack -- but said treatment in Moscow could have saved him.

AP - Sweden recorded its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain on Wednesday, saying European laboratory tests confirm two birds found dead in the southeast were infected with the virus.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged patience as Iraqis work through political differences and said the United States will be "more than pleased to stand down" and leave the country once it can safely stand on its own.

Christina Ficara - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, D.C. (AHN) – For the first time, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is detected in Myanmar and Cameroon – the latest sign the disease is expanding in Africa and Southeast Asia. Further testing is expected to confirm cases in...

Reuters - Iraqi police said they found 27 bodies with gunshot wounds in southeast Baghdad on Tuesday, raising the number of victims of killings in the capital since Monday morning to at least 80.

AP - Azerbaijan reported three people killed by bird flu, after Myanmar announced its first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain in poultry and officials cited a strong threat that the disease also struck Afghanistan.

AP - As of Monday, March 13, 2006, at least 2,308 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 1,808 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

AFP - Five people appeared in court in connection with Britain's biggest cash robbery, which saw more than 53 million pounds stolen from a depot in southeast England.

AP - A heart attack killed Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said, citing preliminary findings from Dutch pathologists who conducted a nearly eight-hour autopsy Sunday on the former Yugoslav leader.