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Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's bloody conflict -- and are severing their ties with al Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have told CNN.

Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the Sex and the City movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3D on your coffee table.

Two Frenchmen and a German won the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer, the organization's Web site said Monday.

With four weeks to go till Election Day, the road ahead for John McCain is straight up the side of an ice-covered mountain.

Seven employees of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration have agreed to give statements in the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, lawmakers involved in the probe said Sunday.

For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.

Prosecutors trying to persuade a judge not to throw out the criminal case against Sen. Ted Stevens expect the Justice Department to investigate them for their failure to disclose evidence that might help clear the 84-year-old GOP lawmaker.

Carol Ann Carnese never considered herself an anxious person. Except when it came to wet wood.

The jury that convicted O.J. Simpson of robbery and other charges relied mostly on audio and video evidence -- and very little on testimony from prosecution witnesses -- jury members said. "We honestly felt we could not rely on that witness testimony," said Michelle Lyons, one of seven jurors who spoke to reporters. "There was not one decision we made that was based only on witness testimony."

In a groundbreaking meeting, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group, according to a source familiar with the talks.

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook central Afghanistan early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The Turkish military bombed PKK rebel targets Saturday in northern Iraq in response to clashes that left at least 15 Turkish troops dead, the PKK and the military said Sunday.

A New York State judge has temporarily blocked the merger of Wachovia with Wells Fargo, according to a news release by Citigroup -- which is trying to buy Wachovia itself. Citigroup has been pressing Wachovia and Wells Fargo to abandon their merger plans, arguing that it had entered into an exclusivity agreement with Wachovia, CNNMoney reports.

Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday charged that Sen. John McCain's campaign is launching "Swift boat-style attacks" on him instead of addressing the country's problems. The McCain campaign shot back, saying its accusations are "true facts" and not "smears."

Barack Obama's campaign has quickly rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that he associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country."

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit arrived in Iraq on Sunday, the first such visit in 18 years.

Hong Kong authorities today announced that two recalled candy products made by British confectioner Cadbury had high levels of melamine. The industrial chemical has recently been found in Chinese-made milk products that have sickened nearly 53,000 children in China, killing four.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical on Saturday, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country." Palin's comment delivered on the McCain campaign's announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate.

Indian authorities in Kashmir placed the Himalayan region in an around-the-clock indefinite curfew early Sunday to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian capital on Tuesday, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha told CNN Sunday.

Jury questionnaires released Saturday revealed five of the jurors in O.J. Simpson's Las Vegas, Nevada, armed robbery and kidnapping trial said they disagreed with the 1995 verdict when he was found not guilty in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.

A judge has temporarily blocked Wells Fargo's acquisition of Wachovia, according to a news release by Citigroup. Citigroup has been pressing Wachovia and Wells Fargo to abandon their merger plans, arguing that it had entered into an exclusivity agreement with Wachovia.

Thai police arrested a key opposition leader Sunday as part of its crackdown on the anti-government movement that want leaders of the ruling People Power Party purged from the Cabinet.

The head of the International Monetary Fund says the global financial crisis is a "trial by fire" and that Europe must show it can respond like the United States.

Coalition forces in Baghdad have killed the man believed to be the mastermind of recent bombings in the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said.

American al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn appeared in a video posted on the Internet on Saturday, focusing on Pakistan, with references to the U.S. economic meltdown and fighting in Kashmir.

Two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters crashed Saturday night while landing in northern Baghdad, killing one Iraqi soldier, a U.S. military spokesman said.

Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning Saturday in the battleground state of Virginia, lashed out at his presidential rival's plan to tackle health care reform.