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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A former Nicaraguan leftist foreign minister who has been a sharp critic of U.S. governments was elected on Wednesday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has asked three people, including Caroline Kennedy, to lead a search for a prospective vice presidential running mate, his campaign said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama toughened his terms for diplomacy with Iran and backed Israel's stance on Jerusalem on Wednesday in his first foreign policy speech since capturing the Democratic nomination for U.S. president.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and dismay on Wednesday to Barack Obama's pledge that Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital.

JUYUAN, China (Reuters) - Anguished Chinese parents said on Wednesday they will press ahead with complaints against officials they blame for schools that toppled in a devastating earthquake, a day after police sought to silence one protest.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Developing nations joined the West on Wednesday in throwing their weight behind the U.N. nuclear watchdog's attempt to get Iran to clarify intelligence alleging that it secretly researched ways of making atom bombs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday passed a budget for the fiscal year starting October 1 that would eliminate deficits by 2012 but puts off tough decisions on taxes and controlling the growing costs of health and retirement benefits for the elderly.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eighteen people were killed in an explosion in Baghdad on Wednesday that Iraqi police said was caused by a truck bomb but which the U.S. military blamed on a misfiring militia rocket.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday Barack Obama's emergence as the first black American to win a major party's presidential nomination was a landmark for equal rights after more than two centuries of struggle.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran posed a serious threat in the Middle East and vowed to stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - The win by Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has left American women both sad and elated -- that a woman came so close, but ultimately missed making history.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel suspended fuel deliveries to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a mortar fired by Palestinian militants struck the territory's only fuel depot, wounding a Palestinian worker.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Residents in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, braced for further flooding after a high tide of over 2 meters resulted in flooding in parts of the city on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin should be moved from Red Square and buried as his family had wished, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by small-arms fire near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

PRISTINA (Reuters) - U.N. authorities in Kosovo expect instructions within days on how to proceed after June 15, when Albanians hope to receive a raft of new powers under their first state constitution, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The mother of a British teenager murdered in the Indian state of Goa fears the case against her daughter's killer is falling apart after a forensic test failed to find evidence of rape, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed a man for life for supplying a drug maker a fake ingredient that led to at least 14 deaths, local media said on Wednesday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. navy hopes to tap Japan's "manga" comic culture to soothe worries over the deployment of a nuclear-powered warship for the first time to the only country to suffer an atomic bombing.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council envoys pressed Sudan's government on Wednesday to avert a return to civil war with the south and over the separate conflict in its western Darfur region.