Not only did Colombian army agents pull an elaborate hoax on rebel kidnappers allowing them to rescue 15 hostages, but they caught part of the operation on videotape.

The U.S. military said air strikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents Friday in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said civilians were in the vehicles. 1st Lt. Nathan Perry, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said the air strikes in Nuristan province hit militants who had attacked a U.S. military base with mortars.

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday.

Divers pulled six bodies out of the Sava River and fought strong currents Friday to search for five other people still missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam in southeastern Slovenia.

Two days after her rescue, six years after being captured by guerrillas in the Colombian jungle, Ingrid Betancourt arrived in Paris on Friday to thank the joyful nation that had championed her cause and to begin to share some of the painful details of her long ordeal.

The long-awaited trial of a former South American dictator accused of a 1982 massacre began Friday with testimony from a member of the firing squad.

Mexican authorities say they have found the bodies of three decapitated men accompanied by a dead snake and threatening messages. A report from the state prosecutor's office obtained by The Associated Press says the bodies were found Friday in a car trunk in Culiacan, capital of the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. They were mutilated and bullet-ridden.

Former President George H.W. Bush inaugurated the new U.S. Embassy in Germany at its pre-World War II site Friday, a return that he said symbolized the fulfillment of "a great and noble dream" of European freedom and unity.

For years Spain's famed Prado museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master.

Iran delivered a "constructive" preliminary response Friday to a package of incentives meant to convince it to curtail parts of its nuclear program, European and Iranian officials said.