From Newswire

• South Korea rocket launch bound to rile the North
• Suicide car bomb, rockets strike Kabul ahead of vote
• Iran ready for nuclear talks with West: state TV
• Former South Korean leader Kim Dae-jung dies
• Japan election campaign opens; voters eye change
• Russian dam rescuers "unlikely" to find 64 missing
• Pakistan needs "months" for Waziristan push: general
• Scottish court lets Libyan drop Lockerbie appeal
• Anger swells over impunity in post-war Sri Lanka
• Russia says arrests 8 hijackers of merchant ship: reports