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DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda said on Wednesday it was behind a suicide attack on Denmark's embassy in Pakistan which it mounted in revenge for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

BERLIN (Reuters) - New Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits Germany on Thursday on his first official trip to Western Europe, one that will be closely watched for signs of Moscow's future ties with its European Union neighbors.

PARIS (Reuters) - Ministers from trade powers will try to keep struggling world talks alive on Thursday with supporters saying a deal could help offset the global food crisis and soften the economic slowdown.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Black Americans savored Barack Obama's unprecedented victory in the Democratic race for U.S. president, but said on Wednesday the higher stakes raised the prospect of deep disappointment in November.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Wednesday for reconciliation talks with his Islamist Hamas rivals in a speech that did not repeat previous demands that they first give up the Gaza Strip.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Chicago real estate developer and one-time fundraiser for U.S. presidential contender Barack Obama and other politicians, was found guilty on Wednesday of fraud, attempted bribery and money laundering.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Memo to disappointed women supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton: Republican John McCain wants your vote.

LUANDA (Reuters) - Angola on Wednesday called much-delayed legislative elections for September 5, but a request by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to extend polling into a second day raised fears of vote-rigging.

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States would review and potentially renegotiate all existing U.S. trade deals under a bill introduced on Wednesday by Democratic Party lawmakers as a marker for next year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will beat Republican John McCain in the November U.S. presidential election, prediction market traders were betting on Wednesday.

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.