ATLANTA (Reuters) - Defending champion Florida and Ohio State will slug it out for the college basketball championship after winning their NCAA Tournament semi-finals on Saturday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - With just minutes to spare on Monday, the United States and South Korea agreed the biggest U.S. trade pact for 15 years, officials said.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Florida became the first team in 15 years to claim back-to-back NCAA basketball titles by defeating Ohio State 84-75 on Monday.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN found itself reporting live Tuesday on a deadly shooting close to home: inside the building that houses its downtown Atlanta television center.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The 15 British military personnel who had been held by Iran left Tehran on a flight to London on Thursday, ending a two-week standoff that raised international tension and rattled financial markets.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Climate experts neared agreement on Friday on the bleakest U.N. warning yet about the impacts of global warming, but some participants said parts were getting watered down from a harder-hitting draft.

TOKYO (Reuters) - China, the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will take part in negotiations on a framework for limiting global warming after 2012, the daily Yomiuri Shimbun said on Saturday.

AP - Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Engaged in a fierce debate with Democrats over Iraq, President George W. Bush will seek momentum on Monday for an overhaul of U.S. immigration law with his second visit in a year to a major border crossing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Suicide rates among people of all ages are higher in states where more homes have guns, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

AFP - North Korea has told a visiting US delegation that it will miss Saturday's deadline to begin shutting down its main nuclear reactor but could start within 30 days, NBC News reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American literary idol Kurt Vonnegut, best known for such classic novels as 'Slaughterhouse-Five' and 'Cat's Cradle,' died on Tuesday night in Manhattan at age 84, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

AP - Rick DiPietro to the rescue? With their star goaltender cleared for practice for the first time in three weeks, the New York Islanders certainly need a boost after discovering how difficult it is to beat Buffalo when the No. 1-seeded Sabres are on top of their game.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a move likely to irritate Tehran, the government has decided not to release five Iranians captured in Iraq, a newspaper reported on Friday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake jolted central and western Japan on Sunday, injuring two people, but there were no other reports of major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

AP - A nor'easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Police and university authorities faced pressure on Tuesday to explain how a gunman apparently evaded detection after killing two people and then went on to kill 30 others two hours later in America's worst shooting rampage.

AP - Investors were falling in love with Yahoo Inc. again until the Internet icon's disheartening first-quarter results ruined the mood.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deputy to Paul Wolfowitz urged the World Bank chief on Wednesday to resign in the interests of the institution during a meeting of the bank's management, sources who participated in the meeting said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz canceled a speech to a health conference on Thursday as the bank's board met late into the night to discuss a controversy over the promotion of his girlfriend, which has paralyzed the poverty-fighting institution .

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Army general concluded the Marine Corps chain of command in Iraq ignored 'obvious' signs of 'serious misconduct' in the slayings of two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday the U.N. Security Council, which has passed two sanctions resolutions on Iran since December, had no right to stop it enriching uranium.

PARIS (Reuters) - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has seized a strong lead over Socialist Segolene Royal in the first round of France's presidential election and must now woo centrist voters if he is to win the run-off vote on May 6.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed nine U.S. soldiers at a military base north of Baghdad on Monday in the deadliest single attack against American ground forces in more than a year, the military said.

AP - Apple Inc., on a tear with its popular iPod players and Macintosh computers, is expected to report strong quarterly results Wednesday but will face lingering worries over the role its iconic CEO played in its stock options backdating troubles.

AP - A jury convicted a 17-year-old boy Wednesday of raping a photographer and helping his uncle, whose previous brushes with the law brought attention to the case, kill her and burn her body.

PARIS (Reuters) - The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A NATO air strike has killed 13 Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost after the insurgents tried to attack a district government headquarters, provincial officials said on Saturday.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Investigators on Sunday attempted to identify a suicide bomber who tried to kill Pakistan's interior minister in what officials suspect may have been attack planned by Islamist militants.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four American soldiers were killed in Baghdad over the past two days, the U.S. military said on Monday.