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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an explosive vest killed 25 people at a dinner banquet in western Baghdad's Sunni Arab Abu Ghraib district on Sunday, police said.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Ten people died on Sunday when a single-engine aircraft crashed in eastern Guatemala, including four U.S. citizens on a humanitarian mission and the plane's two pilots, local officials said.

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi this month threatens the future of democracy in Africa if left unchallenged, the deposed president's son said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an explosive vest killed 25 people at a dinner banquet in western Baghdad's Sunni Arab Abu Ghraib district on Sunday, police said.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - About 70 people, including members of a teenage basketball team, died on Sunday when a Kyrgyz airliner crashed in a ball of flames shortly after take-off from the Central Asian state's main airport.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - A Kyrgyz passenger plane crashed outside the capital Bishkek on Sunday and 25 people of the 90 people on board have survived, Kyrgyzstan's emergencies minister said.

PARIS/ROME (Reuters) - An avalanche hit climbers on Mont Blanc on Sunday, leaving seven injured and eight others missing and French police said there was little hope of finding any survivors.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces said on Sunday they had caught two prominent al Qaeda leaders, including one they blamed for the kidnapping of an American journalist.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that expanded oil drilling in federal waters could be included in a broader energy bill if advocates can prove its viability as a solution to America's energy problems.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian security forces killed 10 Islamist rebels in a security operation southwest of the capital on Sunday, state news agency APS cited the Interior Ministry as saying.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - One person was killed and dozens were injured in Indian Kashmir on Sunday when police fired bullets and used batons to disperse thousands of pro-independence protesters defying a curfew.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel will be targeted by thousands of rockets if it attacks Iran, a senior official in the Tehran-backed group Hezbollah said on Sunday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 2,000 Tibetan exiles, including children, monks and nuns, joined a protest rally in Kathmandu on Sunday, hours before the closing ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing.

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine sees joining the NATO alliance as vital to its security, President Viktor Yushchenko said on Sunday in a speech bound to antagonize Russia.

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A man killed 19 people in Burundi when he hurled a grenade into his brother's wedding party in what police said on Sunday was a land dispute.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the Middle East on Monday in another effort to bridge gaps holding up an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that Washington says could still be achieved this year.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling coalition parties wrangled over the presidency and deposed judges on Sunday, continuing infighting critics say keeps them from tackling rising militant violence and a sagging economy.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Siam Commercial Bank said it would seek a board decision over a government request to release 12 billion baht ($353 million) from frozen accounts of the family of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters surrounded a factory building what is billed as the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in the biggest demonstration yet against seizure of farmland for industry in eastern India on Sunday.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's journalists' union identified two Western reporters kidnapped near Mogadishu and said on Sunday it believed they were being held hostage by gunmen in the capital.