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Moscow  - A Kremlin bill to extend the presidential term from four to six years was a vote shy of being unanimously approved by lawmakers in its third and final reading Friday in Russia’s lower house of parliament.

Johannesburg  - South Africa football fans are eagerly awaiting Saturday’s draw for next year’s Confederations Cup as they know that the draw will favour the hosts.

Los Angeles  - Rajon Rondo picked the right time to snap out of scoring slump.

Stockholm - The Swedish parliament ratified the European Union reform treaty late Thursday after a nine-hour debate.

New York  - German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung promised UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon assistance in the fight against piracy off the Somalia coast during a meeting Thursday in New York.

Washington  - US Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech in Washington Thursday evening and was rushed to a hospital, US media reported.
The US television network ABC quoted a lawyer in the room as saying Mukasey, 67, “started struggling with [his] speech, slurring” just before he collapsed.
He had been giving a speech to [...]

Washington  - The economic and political clout of the United States will decline by 2025, the spread of nuclear weapons and cyber- terrorism will emerge as the most potent global threats, and new wars are likely to be fought over water and food scarcity.

Taipei  - Taiwan, still reeling from its defeat at the hands of China at the Beijing Olympics, is aiming to advance to the top eight at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, a baseball official said Friday.

Prora, Germany  - The windows are either broken or boarded up, the roof is leaking and the plaster is crumbling from the walls. But the monumental steel and concrete structure planned as a Nazi-era holiday complex has survived otherwise unscathed.

Lima  - The APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) on Thursday called on the region’s leaders to resist the “potential reactionary measures of protectionism and draconian regulation.”