AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin Thursday, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.

AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama landed in Berlin Thursday, kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.

AFP - The pilot of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed last year, killing 21 people, was charged Thursday with deliberately causing the disaster when he appeared in court.

AFP - World motorsport chief Max Mosley won his privacy case at London's High Court Thursday against a newspaper which alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy with prostitutes.

AP - Authorities are investigating who helped ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic assume the false identity that helped him elude capture for more than a decade.

AFP - A petrol tanker burst into flames in Nigeria's main city Lagos, killing at least 12 people and leaving several others with severe burns, witnesses and local television said Thursday.

AP - Hurricane Dolly slammed ashore and then loitered over deep south Texas as a tropical storm, dumping as much as a foot of rain in places and ripping roofs off buildings with 100 mph winds.