AFP - Belarussian opposition supporters were spending a fourth freezing night on the main square of Minsk, but their protest showed no sign of shaking authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

AP - Many African countries are failing to make adequate investments to control the spread of tuberculosis in an area where the problem is made worse by the prevalence of HIV, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

AP - The European Union on Wednesday banned 92, mostly African airlines from landing at European airports, declaring them unsafe by international standards. The ban applies to cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Liberia judged to have an "inadequate system for regulatory oversight" or insufficient safety standards.

AP - Ed Whitacre, the chief executive of AT&T Inc., dismissed criticism that its planned merger with BellSouth Corp. will form a near-monopoly for Internet access and give it the clout to dictate terms to Web sites if they want to remain reachable.

AP - They were chosen because they were fit and healthy, but minutes after being injected with a test drug designed to combat leukemia and other diseases, the men went into convulsions as their internal organs began to fail.