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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.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain proposed on Wednesday that Democrat Barack Obama join him in at least 10 face-to-face encounters at town hall meetings this summer.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama declared victory on Tuesday in the hard-fought race for the Democratic nomination and said the country faced a defining moment in the November presidential election against Republican John McCain.

(Reuters) - Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has clinched his party's nomination for the November presidential election, must choose a running mate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday Iran's nuclear program must be stopped by "all possible means" and Tehran must be made to see it would suffer devastating repercussions if it pursued atomic weapons.

BEIJING (Reuters) - By the time 2008 ends, Wang Junbo joked during a sweltering afternoon in China's earthquake zone, he and other young Chinese will have seen enough suffering, conflict and drama to retire early and write their memoirs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton won the South Dakota contest to pick a Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Tuesday, beating Barack Obama in the next to last state contest to pick a nominee for the November election, media projected.

(Reuters) - Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has clinched his party's nomination for the November presidential election, must choose a running mate.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The most senior official jailed for sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen protests urged China, praised for its openness in handling last month's earthquake, to come clean on why the pro-democracy movement was crushed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton told supporters on Tuesday that she is open to being Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate, a Democratic lawmaker and a party aide said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jesse Jackson, a two-time U.S. presidential candidate and long-time black civil rights leader, on Tuesday called Barack Obama's march to capture the Democratic presidential nomination a "transformational moment."

(Reuters) - Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who will claim the Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, has taken the first small step toward choosing a running mate.

ROME (Reuters) - African countries and anti-poverty campaigners looked to the outcome of a food crisis summit on Thursday for a signal the world will start to produce solutions to stop millions more people falling into hunger.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Biologists in Mexico plan to tag hundreds of sharks off the Pacific Coast to help understand the cause of a rare spate of deadly attacks on humans, the local government said on Tuesday.