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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Barack Obama was leaving Hawaii on Friday and hoping to return the next time as president of the United States if he beats Republican rival John McCain in November.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The school priest wanted to convert Andrei to Romania's Orthodox Christianity, because his school could not hire a teacher for religion classes for the 12-year-old Adventist.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The narrow tunnel that ran beneath Sarajevo airport was people's only escape route during the longest siege in modern history, a symbol of a brutal war that split families and pitted neighbors against each other.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stepped-up international pressure and sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program are hurting its economy, making trade financing and payments difficult and discouraging foreign investment, according to an IMF report published on Thursday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the anniversary of its surrender in World War Two on Friday, but Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda was expected to avoid visiting a shrine for war dead seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Tokyo's past militarism.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its Web site, citing government officials and a member of his circle.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India rolled out a security clampdown on Friday ahead of annual Independence Day celebrations following recent bomb attacks on some of its cities and violent protests in its northern region of Kashmir.

ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain said Thursday he supports a strong dollar and said the currency would respond to the economy if the right policies were implemented to make it grow faster.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska urged a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the criminal charges against him, arguing that only the Senate may discipline him for any violations of Senate rules.

LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will resign rather than face impeachment by parliament, the Financial Times said on its website on Thursday, citing government officials and a member of his circle.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that seeks to protect college students from lending abuses while boosting student aid was signed into law by President George W. Bush on Thursday as students across the United States prepare to head to college.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hooded gunmen dressed in black burst into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in northern Mexico, dragged patients out of a prayer session and shot them dead in an attack that killed eight people.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland agreed on Thursday in the midst of the Georgia crisis that it would host elements of a U.S. global anti-missile system after Washington agreed to boost Poland's own air defenses.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police shot dead a Muslim protester as huge crowds shouting "we want freedom" took to the streets of Kashmir on Thursday over a land row that is testing New Delhi's hold on the troubled Himalayan region.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As a tireless questioner of authority and a consummate Washington insider, pioneering White House correspondent Helen Thomas has covered nine U.S. presidents over a span of nearly a half century.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. court will take the unusual step of rehearing a lawsuit it earlier rejected from a Canadian who claims the U.S. government sent him illegally to Syria where he was tortured for a year, lawyers said on Thursday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber killed 19 people, mostly women, and wounded 75 on Thursday when she detonated an explosive vest in a crowd of pilgrims being escorted by police to a shrine south of Baghdad, police said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Labor groups on Thursday asked federal regulators to look into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc broke the law during company meetings with store managers where it warned about the consequences of a proposed labor law backed by Democrats.

BREGANCON, France (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will ask Georgia's president on Friday to sign a French-negotiated ceasefire that contains some apparent concessions to Moscow but would lead to the withdrawal of Russian forces, officials said.

KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Western Ukraine vowed on Thursday to make Russia seek official permission for movements of its warships based in the ex-Soviet state despite Moscow's objections, placing the neighbors on a collision course.