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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, addressing one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologized on Wednesday for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were sexually and physically abused.

VAKHDAT, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Under a scorching sun, an exhausted Tajik woman looks at a drying trickle of irrigation water running across her cotton field.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Committee to Protect Journalists on Wednesday called on Israel to release findings of an army investigation into the killing of a Reuters cameraman in the Gaza Strip in April.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada, addressing one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologized on Wednesday for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were sexually and physically abused.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army brought a new hybrid electric tank, an unmanned helicopter and other weapons that make up the $160 billion Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization effort to Washington on Wednesday, lauding their relevance to troops fighting in Iraq now.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tax breaks proposed by both presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama would increase the U.S. national debt by trillions of dollars over 10 years, but Obama's plan would hike taxes for the wealthiest Americans, a tax policy group said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday blocked an effort by Democrats to quickly pass an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Wednesday U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would have an "inferiority complex" because he is black and if elected he might "behave worse than whites."

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The chief of Democrat Barack Obama's search for a vice presidential running mate stepped down from that role on Wednesday over questions about loans he received from a company involved in the U.S. housing crisis.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party said on Wednesday it would deploy more war veterans to campaign in opposition areas ahead of a presidential election run-off marred by violence.

LONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An apparently doomed bid to impeach President George W. Bush, largely on charges of misleading the U.S. into the Iraq war, was referred on Wednesday to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House and key senators are close to a deal to extend federal retraining and income support benefits for the first time to service industry workers whose jobs have moved overseas, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will join forces with a private agriculture initiative in a bid to reverse years of decline in African agriculture and mounting hunger across the continent, officials said on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian police failed to pursue two leads that could have snared schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch's kidnapper quickly and averted what became an eight-year-long ordeal, independent investigators said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday called on Congress to preserve tax cuts passed by the Bush administration, approve a free trade agreement with Colombia and drill for more domestic oil.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Gordon Brown won a crucial vote in parliament on Wednesday to extend the time terrorism suspects can be held without charge, bringing some relief to a prime minister whose leadership is under fire.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Gordon Brown won a crucial vote in parliament on Wednesday to extend the time terrorism suspects can be held without charge, bringing relief to a prime minister whose leadership is under fire.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea must honor a deal to fully reopen its market to U.S. beef before the U.S. Congress will approve a bilateral free trade agreement, a top senator said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The partner of a man who tried to carry out a suicide bombing in London in July 2005 was found guilty on Wednesday of not informing the authorities about his plans and helping him escape justice.