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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim produced a report by a private doctor on Tuesday that he said showed his accuser had not been sodomized, as he battles a criminal case in his drive to unseat the government.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, said she sees herself as akin to former U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in an interview with a U.S. magazine released on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Marathon talks on a new global trade pact collapsed on Tuesday as the United States and India refused to compromise over a proposal to help poor farmers deal with floods of imports.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council was split on Monday over an effort by Libya and South Africa to have the council prevent the International Criminal Court from indicting Sudan's president for genocide.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet this week to work toward the long-shot U.S. goal of achieving a comprehensive peace deal this year that even Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says is out of reach.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will investigate why its troops opened fire on a car in southern Afghanistan, killing two small children, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The top U.N. humanitarian affairs official said on Monday the world body had suffered "significant" losses while delivering cyclone aid to Myanmar due to a distorted official exchange rate.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Negotiations between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were deadlocked on Monday after negotiators failed to agree on a power sharing agreement, an MDC source said.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A Guantanamo prison cell door opened a crack to reveal an eye peering from the shadows within. A photographer focused through layers of fencing and barbed wire, and the door snapped shut.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A key al Qaeda figure denounced Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, saying in an Internet video that an interfaith dialogue the monarch called for aimed to replace Islam with a "modern faith" acceptable to Jews and Christians.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The transfer of Radovan Karadzic to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague will be carried out covertly to avoid media attention and planned protests by nationalist supporters of the former Bosnian Serb leader.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told parliament on Monday a full Israeli-Palestinian peace accord that includes Jerusalem was not within reach this year but said differences over borders and refugees were bridgeable.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Monday unanimously confirmed South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the world body's new human rights chief, and activist groups urged her to be tough in her new post.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur risks becoming "the world's latest broken promise" unless it receives more international support and improves security with the troops it has, a group of 50 agencies said.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's highest court on Monday began considering whether to shut down the governing party for Islamist activities against a background of tension following two bomb attacks in Istanbul.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Iran will seek "common ground" with the United States and five other world powers that have proposed incentives for Tehran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress towards a global trade deal ground to a halt on Monday as the United States clashed with China and India over access to their rapidly growing markets and key European Union states demanded better terms.

KABUL (Reuters) - Two French aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan this month are fine and the government is doing all it can to secure their freedom, the interior minister said on Monday.

KIEV (Reuters) - Floods in western Ukraine have killed 22 people, destroyed homes, farmland and roads and prompted the evacuation of 20,000 residents, officials said on Monday.