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KYAUKTAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta started evicting destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centers on Friday, apparently fearing the 'tented villages' might become permanent.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has lashed out at rumor-mongers for speculation he planned to quit to avoid being forced out by the new government, and for trying to cause a rift between him and the army.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House race between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama could shake up the political map in November, putting new states in play and shifting the odds in some traditional battlegrounds like Florida and Ohio.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the world, CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a Washington Post interview published on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gun-toting Chinese official who owned two Ferraris and liked driving around in an amoured personnel carrier has been jailed for life for illegal weapons possession and fraud, state media reported on Friday.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Global auction house Christie's sold a record $310.7 million worth of Asian art at its Hong Kong spring sales this week, cementing the region's reputation as one of the most promising in a thriving international market.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Thursday announced $1.2 billion in loans and grant financing to expand its assistance to poor countries struggling with the effects of soaring fuel and food costs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. and Libyan officials are meeting in London this week to try to reach a deal on compensation cases from the Lockerbie air disaster and other 1980s incidents, a Bush administration official said on Thursday.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A helicopter crashed into a building in a busy central district of Panama City on Thursday, killing at least 11 people including Chile's federal police chief.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of women priests on Thursday, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Iraq pressed its creditors to cancel about $60 billion in debts at an international conference on Thursday, but two of its biggest creditors, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, sent only junior representatives to hear the call.

PUTIS, Peru (Reuters) - Forensic scientists pulled human skeletons from the biggest known mass grave in Peru on Thursday, searching for proof the army slaughtered more than 100 people at a rocky pit during the 1980-2000 civil war.

MIANYANG, China (Reuters) - China's struggle to overcome earthquake devastation has been compounded by conflicting official claims about plans to evacuate 1.3 million people in a city threatened by a swelling "quake lake".

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's foreign minister deepened the uncertainty over Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ability to survive a corruption scandal by saying on Thursday their party had to prepare for a possible early election.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in excellent health and fit to serve as U.S. president, his doctor said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. and Libyan officials are meeting in London this week to try to reach a deal on compensation cases from the Lockerbie air disaster and other 1980s incidents, a Bush administration official said on Thursday.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A helicopter crashed into a building in a busy central district of Panama City on Thursday, killing Chile's federal police chief and several other people.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada cares less and less about the "third-world" living conditions faced by many of its native peoples, protesters said on Thursday in the second annual aboriginal National Day of Action.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of women priests on Thursday, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's No. 1 supplier by sales, predicted on Thursday continued strong backing for its programs no matter who wins the November 4 U.S. presidential election.