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Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares victory for his centrist Kadima party in Israel's parliamentary elections. Kadima won 28 seats in the 120-member parliament. Olmert says he'd prefer a peace deal with Palestinians, but is ready to act unilaterally to define Israel's final borders.

Johns Hopkins senior Juliana Kerrest has struggled with mental illness since her early teens. In college, she went so far as to plan her suicide. One thought that stopped her: Her work with the support group Active Minds could help others suffering from mental illness.

Tzipi Livni is a hard-driving yet soft spoken foreign minister who could take over leadership of the ruling Kadima party and as head of state when current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert steps down. Some experts say she's tough and cautious, but friends call her "very funny" and "fun" in private.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday he will not run for his party's leadership in September, effectively ending his political career and paving the way for new leadership in Israel. Olmert says ongoing investigations of corruption allegations against him have impeded his ability to fulfill his duties.

A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer has been charged with spying. Ben-ami Kadish, 84, is accused of slipping classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli consulate.

Few of Iraq's nascent security forces have been as reviled as the country's national police, which, critics say, has been infiltrated by death squads and is riddled with corruption. But the head of the beleaguered force is trying to turn it around.

Israel's security cabinet declares Gaza an "enemy entity," paving the way for cuts in gas supplies into the already isolated coastal strip. These and other punitive measures are a bid to isolate Hamas in response to rocket fire aimed at southern Israel.

Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of the radical Muslim group Jamaat al Muslimeen, says he's never met the four men arrested for plotting to sabotage New York's JFK airport and denies any links to international terrorists.

The top U.S. commander in Iraq says success in Iraq may take more time than Washington is willing to give. On a recent inspection in Baghdad, Gen. David Petraeus also says any real long-term solution for the country must be a political one.

Federal authorities and local police arrest three people and are searching for a fourth in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a fuel line feeding New York's JFK Airport. Authorities say the plot never got past the planning stages.