Myanmar’s junta impounded two U.N. food aid shipments at Yangon airport on Friday, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government’s refusal to accept a major international relief operation.

Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday.

Missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry rolled through Moscow's Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade Friday, reviving a tradition of the Soviet era and demonstrating Russia's growing military confidence.

A man seized by Iraqi forces is not the head of al-Qaida in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday, despite earlier announcements by several Iraqi officials that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been captured.

It was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina. Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia's deadliest storms by hitting land at one of the lowest points in Myanmar and setting off a storm surge that reached 25 miles inland.