World News Desk

• Bird Flu

• U.S. Debt Record

• Half of American Youth to Contract STDs

• Pope Calls for UN Reform

• “We Got Him!”—The Implications

• "Hateful" Words Now a War Crime

• “Speed” in Rural America

• The Vatican and Saddam Hussein

• The Next Flu Pandemic

• Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Enter Nuclear Pact

• Jerusalem to Host Gay Parade

• Russia Flexes Military Muscle

• European “Super-Region”

• Ed Koch Editorial: “Coming for the Jews”

• Europe and Its Army

• China Creates Human-Rabbit Hybrid

• Many Germans Believe U.S. Behind Sept. 11

• The Pope’s Decalogue for Europe

• North Korea, Iran and Missiles

• The U.S. as World Cop