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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A day after President Pervez Musharraf quit, leaders of Pakistan's fractious coalition government squabbled over the judiciary on Tuesday and a bomb killed 25 people, underscoring the challenges facing the nation.

WAJIHIYAH, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. commander dons his headset as a convoy of armored vehicles rumbles along the dusty roads of the fertile Diyala river valley in Iraq, and he starts his macabre tour.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court moved to indict him for war crimes, on Tuesday denied that his forces had committed genocide in Darfur.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies said on Tuesday that regular contacts with Russia were impossible until its troops had been fully withdrawn from Georgia, and said they were "seriously considering" the implications of Moscow's actions.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Shops, businesses and schools opened in Indian Kashmir for the first time in two weeks on Tuesday, as separatists called for three days of calm after the biggest protests in two decades against New Delhi's rule.

ISSERS, Algeria (Reuters) - A bomb at an Algerian military academy killed 43 people and wounded 45 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state.

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, with many ordinary people hoping his departure would bring improvement to their lives.

THU DUC, Vietnam (Reuters) - Fallen British rock star Gary Glitter has been freed from a Vietnamese prison after completing a three-years sentence for molesting two young girls, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Nearly 1,000 bra makers protested outside the German embassy in Bangkok on Tuesday in a labor dispute stemming from the vexed issue of whether Thais have the right not to stand up in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov denied on Tuesday French media reports he had bought the world's most expensive home, a French Mediterranean villa.

HANOI (Reuters) - Rising Mekong floods upstream may cause landslides and deep inundation in Cambodia and southern Vietnam but the seasonal floodwater would also bring farmers good crops of rice and fish, officials said on Tuesday.

VERKHNY ZARAMAG, Russia (Reuters) - No Russian tanks or armored personnel carriers left Georgia through the only military crossing point back into Russia overnight, a Reuters reporter at the border said on Tuesday morning.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 in a major battle in Afghanistan, the French president's office said on Tuesday, the biggest single loss of foreign troops in combat there since 2001.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's Tuareg rebel leader Aghaly ag Alambo said his fighters would lay down their guns from Monday and, together with neighboring Mali's Tuareg rebellion, submit to mediation by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Monday, killing five policemen and wounding seven, police said.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Election Commission (EC) deferred a decision on Tuesday on whether to recommend that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for electoral fraud, saying it needed to investigate further.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Small Pacific nations and East Timor are jostling for inclusion in an Australian plan to ship in seasonal workers from overseas, but Aborigines said on Tuesday that local indigenous people should get preference.

SUVA (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand criticized Fiji's self-appointed prime minister Frank Bainimarama on Tuesday for boycotting a summit of South Pacific leaders, saying the military coup leader should turn up and "take his medicine".

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand court has allowed a parade of topless porn stars on motor bikes to proceed on the main street of the country's biggest city, local media said on Tuesday.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will seize plants owned by Mexico's Cemex after failing to reach a deal in cement nationalization talks, a show of strength by President Hugo Chavez in a drive to control the OPEC nation's key industries.