AP - Teenage pop star Belinda, who starred in the Disney Channel's"Cheetah Girls 2,"won the video of the year award Thursday at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America in Mexico City.

AP - Two explosions went off Thursday night near the truck carrying former premier Benazir Bhutto during her procession through Karachi, wounding several people, police said.

AP - Thousands of Kurds joined rallies across northern Iraq and marched to U.N. offices Thursday to protest a vote by Turkey's lawmakers that backed possible cross-border attacks against Kurdish rebel camps.

AFP - AB de Villiers and Herschelle Gibbs smashed centuries to help South Africa defeat Pakistan by 45 runs in the first day-night international at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday.

AFP - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters Thursday he has not given up hope of implementing a controversial nuclear deal with the United States opposed by his party's key allies.

AFP - The United States and European Union should abandon their costly WTO feud over aircraft subsidies and negotiate a new trade pact, Airbus's US chief said Thursday.