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Top Story: U.S. President Barack Obama is on his third and final day of touring China. His meetings with President Hu Jintao and other leaders have focused on economic issues, and Obama plans to continue to press Chinese leaders for changes, particularly on currency, today. Obama leaves for Seoul, South Korea, where he will discuss North Korea policy, later this afternoon.
During one of many press conferences, Obama said he is close to a decision on the level of troops for Afghanistan. He also said he hopes the Copenhagen climate change conference "[rallies] the world."
Getting hotter: British scientists project the world's average temperature will rise 6 degrees Celcius by the end of the century.
Asia
- Oxfam released a survey of Afghans showing that they consider poverty and unemployment the driving forces behind conflict in the country.
- Five Papua New Guineans were rescued after two months adrift at sea; three others died.
- A leader of a Pakistani Taliban group believed injured or dead has fled to Afghanistan.
Americas
- The Honduran congress said it will vote on whether to reinstate ousted leader Manuel Zelaya after elections later this month.
- A Cuban dissident in the United States ended her hunger strike.
- Leaders from Peru and Chile continued a barbed back and forth over Chile's alleged spying on Peru.
Middle East
- Iraq's vice president has vetoed a new election law, possibly causing voting delays.
- The United States and United Nations denounced Israel's authorization of the expansion of an East Jerusalem settlement.
- Iran sentenced five to death and more than 80 to jail terms for taking part in the June protests of the presidential election.
Africa
- German police arrested two Rwandans alleged to have fought for the main rebel army in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Somali pirates released a Spanish tuna-fishing boat they had captured 400 miles off of the Seychelles after receiving a handsome ransom.
- Clashes in southern Sudan over whether to declare independence left 12 dead and a government minister injured.
Europe
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of NATO, said he anticipated increasing its troop presence in Afghanistan.
- A U.S. official said Algerian pressure on the North African branch of al Qaeda had reduced the chance of it attacking targets in Europe.
- Speaking at the U.N. hunger summit in Rome, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said more than 17,000 children die per day of hunger-related causes.
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