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MAJINGXIANG, China (Reuters) - Chinese troops on Saturday eased pressure on a swelling "quake lake" threatening hundreds of thousands of people, but a smaller lake burst its banks in a show of destructive force.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President George W. Bush makes his final tour of European capitals next week, he can expect a less-than-fond farewell on a continent where leaders are already looking past him to his successor.

CHENGDU (Reuters) - It was just an afternoon stroll down the streets of his hometown, but every step blogger "Yellow Peach" took was revolutionary.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday for the second time this week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the June 27 presidential run-off vote.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind his candidacy and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether agency attorneys improperly deported Canadian Maher Arar to his native Syria, where he says he was tortured after he was detained at a U.S. airport due to his erroneous placement on a terrorist watch list.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thirty years after it sparked a popular tax revolt that helped sweep former governor Ronald Reagan into the White House, Californians still support the landmark Proposition 13, but critics say it has roiled the state's budgets ever since, a report released on Friday said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Friday its senior Korea expert will travel to Pyongyang next week for talks with North Korean officials on completing the disablement of their nuclear complex at Yongbyon.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An explosion ripped apart a car carrying a district police chief in Chechnya on Friday and gunmen then shot at the burning vehicle, a source at the law enforcement agencies told Interfax news agency.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Friday said the weak May employment report was consistent with an economy facing a slow growth period.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Feminists are as determined as ever to put "women's issues" at the center of the U.S. election campaign this year despite Hillary Clinton's exit. And by that they mean the economy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Israel and the West Bank next week to try to nudge Israelis and Palestinians toward a peace deal this year despite Israel's political turmoil.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Critics of the European Union reform treaty in Ireland, which will vote on the document on June 12, are a diverse group united by the idea it would undermine democracy.

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations experts on child rights criticized the United States on Friday over detention of juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador agreed on Friday to renew low-level diplomatic ties with Colombia, a step toward resolving a dispute stemming from a March anti-rebel raid by Colombia's military into Ecuador's territory.

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - New Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made clear on Friday the Kremlin had not softened its opposition to NATO expansion, warning ex-Soviet neighbors of serious consequences if they join the alliance.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an attempt to further distance itself from the U.N. Human Rights Council, the United States said on Friday it would only engage the body when there was an issue of "deep national interest."

OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, officials said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President George W. Bush makes his final tour of European capitals next week, he can expect a less-than-fond farewell on a continent where leaders are already looking past him to his successor.

RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt deployed hundreds of riot police along the border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, fearing hundreds of Palestinian protestors may try to storm the Rafah crossing, security officials said.