A Milan judge yesterday ordered 26 Americans, most of them believed to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for kidnapping a Muslim cleric and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

President George W. Bush was resigned to a stinging rebuke from the United States House of Representatives yesterday over his Iraq war policy and his decision to send more troops, the White House said.

A quick-thinking pilot thwarted a gun-toting hijacker on a flight from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands by discreetly warning passengers he would brake hard upon landing, then speed up just as abruptly to knock the man off balance..

An aggressive new United Nations offensive has prompted several Haitian gang members to flee their slum strongholds and cross the border into the Dominican Republic, the top official of the international body in Haiti said Thursday.

Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians in Arab East Jerusalem after prayers yesterday as hundreds protested against excavations and planned construction work near Islam's third holiest site.