The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong-Il told Chinese President Hu Jintao this week that he would work towards reviving stalled nuclear disarmament talks but gave no timetable, said Chinese state media on Friday.

An Indian court sentenced a Pakistani man to death on Thursday over a three-day rampage through Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people and strained ties between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.

The UK’s two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election - with Labour's Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron insisting the prime minister no longer had a mandate to govern.

World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick on May 5 announced the appointment of Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as managing director of the World Bank Group.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed its first major change to the Wall Street reform package on May 5, approving a bipartisan deal to unwind big financial firms that are considered too big to fail.

Greece is "on the brink of the abyss", President Karolos Papoulias has warned, after three people died during protests over planned austerity measures.

Britain and Ireland grounded flights again on May 5 after a fresh cloud of ash swept in from the Icelandic volcano which sparked unprecedented air travel chaos in Europe last month.

Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, who gave amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, died on May 5, the country's information minister said. He was 58.

"Sanctions cannot stop the Iranian nation. The Iranian nation is able to withstand the pressure of the United States and its allies," said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on May 4 in New York.

A suspect in the failed Times Square car bombing told law enforcement officials that he recently received bomb-making training in Pakistan, court documents filed on May 4 show.