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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's president will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, with a confidence vote expected to be the main topic after the government's allies on the left withdrew support to protest against a nuclear deal with the United States.

BELLEVILLE, Michigan (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday a government bailout of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was not necessary now.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police on Thursday detained the suspected driver of the car used in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul this week, in which 6 people were killed, media reports said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Thursday that regulators need emergency authority to step in to limit temporary disruptions to financial markets, a source familiar with his testimony said.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday denied that substantive negotiations had begun with the ruling ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has foiled plans by five "terrorism" groups to target the Beijing Olympics, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday, citing a public security official.

ABUJA (Reuters) - The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said on Thursday it was abandoning a ceasefire, in protest at a British offer to help tackle lawlessness in the region.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Thursday to boost ties with Iraq and urged the region to do more to help the Baghdad government rebuild after years of war.

TASHKENT (Reuters) - A series of explosions at a Soviet-era arms depot in southern Uzbekistan killed at least three people and smashed windows in buildings several miles away, official media and witnesses said on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday the United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague was biased and its activities should be phased out as soon as possible.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Nuclear negotiators began hammering out procedures to check North Korea's account of its nuclear programs on Thursday, with envoys describing the talks as helpful but far from conclusive.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia should help resolve tension over Georgia's rebel regions instead of contributing to it, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, and she urged an end to violence there.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia should help resolve tension over Georgia's rebel regions instead of contributing to it, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, and she urged an end to violence there.

TBILISI (Reuters) - The United States will defend its allies against Iranian aggression, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday, a day after Iran test fired nine missiles it said could hit Israeli and U.S. bases.

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas arrested seven Palestinians who fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant faction said, in the first such detentions since the Islamist group and Israel agreed a truce last month.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's new parliament convened on Thursday after a six-week delay, with an embattled president hoping to push through his pro-business reforms and an emboldened opposition planning a fight over a key U.S. beef deal.

William Kemble-Diaz is a senior real estate correspondent and editor of www.reutersrealestate.com, who has worked for Reuters as a financial journalist since 2001. His mother emigrated to London in 1961 to work, like other Spanish migrants at the time, in Britain's hotel trade, where she met his father. She now lives in Valencia. In the following story, William tells how his father's remains in a Spanish cemetery were removed without the family's knowledge.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran's missile tests proved a need for direct U.S. talks with Tehran while Republican John McCain emphasized sanctions and an anti-missile shield.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrives in Sydney on Sunday as the headline "rock star" act in the Catholic Church's World Youth Day -- its version of Woodstock, five days of peace, love and Christianity.