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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.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, threatened by possible impeachment, is reconciled to stepping down before he is hounded out of office, according to a senior adviser to the new government.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's government is using food as a weapon ahead of Zimbabwe's June 27 presidential run-off election, U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday demanded Syria give free rein to U.N. nuclear investigators after diplomats said Damascus would bar access to some sites Washington believes are linked to a secret atomic reactor.

KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes due to food and water shortages in northern Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Foreign ambassadors urged Kenya on Wednesday to prevent more violence in forthcoming elections for five parliamentary seats that many fear could be a new flashpoint after this year's post-election crisis.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Industrial users across Australia's biggest mining region were hunting for alternative fuels on Wednesday after an explosion at an offshore gas plant knocked out more than a third of normal gas supplies.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia may replace fuel price controls with cash handouts for motorcyclists and owners of small cars as part of subsidy reforms expected to be announced later on Wednesday, a newspaper reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain head into their general election race for the White House with vastly different approaches to the thorniest political issues, from Iraq and diplomacy to taxes and health care.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 2.2-meter (7-feet) high tidal wave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the city government and citizens tried to hold the water back with emergency embankments, a government official said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton refused to surrender to Barack Obama in the Democratic race for the U.S. presidency on Tuesday or to acknowledge she had reached the end of the road in her bid for the White House.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least 18 people were injured in a blast by a railway track in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday, the military said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police said they had detained 57 members of a hardline Islamic group for questioning on Wednesday morning following an attack on an interfaith rally in Jakarta on Sunday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - U.S. warships will soon leave waters near Myanmar after the ruling military junta refused permission for the delivery of aid supplies to the cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta, a top U.S. commander said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama won the Montana contest to pick the party's U.S. presidential candidate on Tuesday, defeating rival Hillary Clinton in the last race to choose a nominee for the November election, media projected.

MEDELLIN, Colombia (Reuters) - Venezuela on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to spread violence in the Andean region after a U.S. official said left-wing Colombian rebels were hiding in Venezuelan territory.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama turned his focus to the five-month general-election fight for the White House against Republican John McCain on Wednesday and announced a three-member team to head his search for a running mate.