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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf delayed a visit to China on Wednesday by a day, the foreign ministry said, as opponents in the coalition government consulted over his possible impeachment.

SEOUL (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that North Korea remained -- for now -- part of what he once branded an "axis of evil", but hoped the list would some day be empty.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's top court ruled on Tuesday that dozens of politicians, among them leading opponents of President Hugo Chavez, will not be allowed to run in regional elections later this year.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack, as the city's mayor hit out at countries that refuse to abandon their bombs.

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak pressed North Korea on Wednesday to agree on a verification plan for its nuclear weapons program or continue to face international isolation.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Euphoric crowds chanting "Go Olympics, Go Beijing" cheered the Olympic flame through Tiananmen Square on Wednesday at the end of its troubled global relay.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A potential mistrial was avoided in the first Guantanamo trial on Tuesday when the U.S. military judge ruled it was too late to challenge his war crimes instructions to the jury deliberating the case of Osama bin Laden's driver.

KADAMRASUL, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladeshi workers dismantling ships and recycling the vessels' parts say they know their jobs are dangerous, but they have no better options to feed their families.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS' Bob Schieffer, NBC's Tom Brokaw and PBS' Jim Lehrer will moderate three debates in the fall between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, the Commission on Presidential Debates said Tuesday.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - In a video sold in Baghdad's souks, a group of women draped in cartridge belts and clutching pistols and rifles explained why they had taken up arms against the U.S. military in Iraq.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon, which closed its Talon intelligence database nearly a year ago amid concerns about domestic spying, will soon begin testing an unclassified alternative for tracking possible threats to U.S. military bases, officials said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will hit the campaign trail for former presidential rival Barack Obama this month, making her first solo appearance on his behalf since he won their bruising Democratic nominating battle in June.

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man accused of killing, decapitating and eating the flesh of a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada shook his head and said "Please kill me" on Tuesday when a judge asked him if he wanted a lawyer.

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The bullet-riddled bodies of seven men were discovered on Tuesday along a drug-smuggling route south of the Dominican capital, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday became the first U.S. senator to formally ask President George W. Bush to call Congress back from its August recess to pass legislation that will help lower high oil and gasoline prices.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of a congressional housing market oversight panel on Tuesday again urged the mortgage industry to hold off on foreclosures until legislation meant to help distressed U.S. homeowners can take effect on October 1.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Iranian-born deputy premier, launched a campaign on Tuesday to succeed scandal-struck Ehud Olmert as prime minister with a vow to put the country's security at the top of his agenda.

PARMA, Ohio (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday that the softness in the dollar was contributing to higher costs for gasoline and if it were to rise that would ease some of the problem with costly fuel.

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas security forces released 80 Fatah prisoners in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after having arrested them during the latest round of violence between the rival Palestinian factions, a Hamas official said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Women would rather carpool or go on vacation with Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama than with his Republican rival John McCain, a new poll of U.S. women voters showed on Tuesday.