AP - Freed British hostage Norman Kember returned home Saturday after four months in captivity in Iraq and thanked the soldiers who saved him and two other peace activists.

AP - Associated Press writer Donna Abu Nasr is covering the visit of Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to Saudi Arabia.

Freed British hostage Norman Kember has arrived in London after being held captive in Iraq for nearly four months.

AFP - Norman Kember, the British hostage held in Iraq for almost four months before being freed this week, arrived back in London on a flight from Kuwait, the domestic Press Association news agency reported.

Freed British hostage Norman Kember has arrived in London after being held captive in Iraq for nearly four months.

British former hostage Norman Kember returns to the UK after 117 days spent captive in Baghdad.

AP - One of the world's oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where it spent more than half its long life.

AFP - A Chinese gangmaster was found guilty of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese shellfish pickers who drowned in a treacherous British bay two years ago.

A British soldier has died in the southern province of Helmand, says the Ministry of Defence.

Reuters - The United States pressed Russia on Friday to join the West in rebuking Iran at the United Nations as part of a U.S.-led campaign to curb the Islamic republic's nuclear programs.

AP - Associated Press writer Donna Abu Nasr is covering the visit of Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to Saudi Arabia.

British former hostage Norman Kember is on his way back to the UK from Iraq, his peace group says.

A supergrass tells the Old Bailey he gave a British man three computers because they were needed by al-Qaeda.

BBC pundit Michael Johnson says British sprinters have it far too easy after another track failure in Melbourne.

AFP - Oil giant BP said that it had abandoned efforts to forge a venture with India's state-run Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL).

Reuters - Iraqi leaders were holding their first formal talks in several days on Friday as Washington kept up pressure on them to form a national unity government that can avert civil war.

AP - One of the world's oldest creatures, a giant tortoise believed to have been about 250 years old, has died in the Calcutta zoo where it spent more than half its long life.

Reuters - Campbell Soup Co. on Friday said it would consider selling its British and Irish businesses, following a strategic review of its international assets.

AFP - In a lightning operation, US and British forces rescued three Western hostages held captive in Iraq for almost four months, as a string of bombings elsewhere in Baghdad left over 30 dead.

AP - Without firing a shot, U.S. and British forces stormed a house Thursday and freed three Christian peace activists who were bound but unguarded, ending a four-month hostage ordeal that saw an American in the group killed and dumped along a railroad track.