World News Desk

• Bird Flu

• Half of American Youth to Contract STDs

• Pope Calls for UN Reform

• Weather Worries Pentagon

• “We Got Him!”—The Implications

• The Next Flu Pandemic

• "Hateful" Words Now a War Crime

• The Vatican and Saddam Hussein

• “Speed” in Rural America

• Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Enter Nuclear Pact

• Russia Flexes Military Muscle

• Europe and Its Army

• Jerusalem to Host Gay Parade

• European “Super-Region”

• Ed Koch Editorial: “Coming for the Jews”

• The U.S. as World Cop

• The Pope’s Decalogue for Europe

• China Creates Human-Rabbit Hybrid

• North Korea, Iran and Missiles

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