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• Pelosi faces biggest test on healthcare vote
  10 Mar 2010 at 12:13pm
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the House of Representatives -- a persuasive arm twister and deal maker -- faces her toughest challenge yet: getting 216 votes to pass final legislation revamping the U.S. healthcare system.
  
• Brown says UK to maintain AAA credit rating
  10 Mar 2010 at 9:25am
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top credit rating and announced a pay freeze for senior civil servants and military officers to help tame a record deficit.
  
• Biden scolds Israel over settlement plan
  10 Mar 2010 at 2:54pm
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks.
  
• Another runaway Toyota Prius reported
  10 Mar 2010 at 2:46pm
  DETROIT (Reuters) - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.
  
• Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results
  10 Mar 2010 at 12:56pm
  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
  
• "JihadJane" accused of terror plot in Sweden
  10 Mar 2010 at 11:24am
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with plotting to kill a Swedish man and trying to recruit fighters via the Internet to commit violent attacks overseas, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
  
• Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes
  10 Mar 2010 at 10:18am
  JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sporadic shooting rang out overnight in the central Nigerian city of Jos and witnesses said at least one person was killed by soldiers enforcing a curfew days after attacks on three nearby Christian villages.
  
• Ahmadinejad, Gates trade barbs in Afghanistan
  10 Mar 2010 at 10:16am
  KABUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.
  
• Iceland opposition toughens on new "Icesave" talks
  10 Mar 2010 at 2:40pm
  REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's opposition turned up the heat on the center-left government on Wednesday to hold out for a tough new "Icesave" debt accord with Britain and the Netherlands, after a referendum rejection of its previous deal.
  
• Obama effect boosts Nobel Peace Prize nominations
  10 Mar 2010 at 1:13pm
  OSLO (Reuters) - A record 237 people and organizations have been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, with interest boosted by last year's award to President Barack Obama, organizers said on Wednesday.