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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the Constitutional Court must explain its decision to overturn a government-led reform allowing students to wear Muslim headscarves at university.

PARIS (Reuters) - Donor states, military powers and regional players will be seeking a more effective strategy for Afghanistan's development and security as well as pledging funds at a conference in Paris on Thursday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tibetan exiles scuffled with Nepali police on Tuesday during an anti-China rally in the streets of Kathmandu before 239 refugees were detained, police and witnesses said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Over two-thirds of the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison are suffering from or at risk of mental problems because they are kept isolated in small cells with little light or fresh air, according to Human Rights Watch.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Middle East this weekend facing the reality that political turmoil in Israel and the Bush administration's dwindling time may dash hopes of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year.

A year after Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip, Abu Hafss is waiting impatiently to see a sword remove the hand of a thief or a woman stoned to death for adultery.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected calls on Tuesday for a national unity government instead of a presidential runoff vote and said his party was sure to win the election despite government violence.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican White House candidate John McCain will promise on Tuesday to lower corporate tax rates if he wins the U.S. presidency and ease the tax burden on middle-class workers to help revive the faltering economy.

MADRID (Reuters) - Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers' strike that has halted deliveries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials announced plans for more high-tech border fencing and rules making it harder for federal contractors to hire illegal workers, but said on Monday it would take another three years to declare victory in immigration control.

YENAKIYEVO, Ukraine (Reuters) - Rescuers have little chance of finding alive 12 miners missing after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery, officials said on Tuesday.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Hardline Islamist leaders rejected a U.N.-brokered peace pact signed by the Somali government and some opposition figures, and vowed on Tuesday that war would continue.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta has released 15 activists arrested two weeks ago for trying to march to the house of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the former Burma's main opposition party said on Tuesday.

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Somalia's interim government and some opposition figures signed a peace deal on Monday that called for the rapid deployment of a robust U.N. stabilization force in the Horn of Africa nation.

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes attacked northern Iraq on Monday, Iraqi security officials said on Tuesday, bombing a mountainous area that is home to rebel Kurdish separatists.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's defense minister was quoted on Tuesday as warning Israel of a "very painful" response if it launched a military strike over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program.

BRDO, Slovenia (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union told Iran on Tuesday they were ready to impose more sanctions over its nuclear enrichment program.

MADRID (Reuters) - Police in Barcelona arrested two people on Tuesday on suspicion of recruiting Muslims to fight for militant groups, news agency EFE reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain share a dislike of rough-edged U.S. politics. Each tried to talk her spouse out of running for the White House.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's entire cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday in the face of massive street protests as its increasingly unpopular president warned that Asia's fourth-largest economy could be heading into crisis.