South fires back at North over propaganda broadcasts at border.

A medieval lakeside town outside Rome and its residents today braced themselves for an onslaught of fans, celebrities and paparazzi on the eve of the expected wedding of movie stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica’s coast today but is not expected to make a direct hit, meteorologists said.

A U.S. truce envoy pressed ahead with his mission today amid new Israeli charges that the Palestinian Authority is engaged in terrorism and tried to smuggle 50 tons of Iranian-made rockets and other weapons into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.