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President Bush tightened U.S. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday, saying Darfurians deserve the help. It has been three years since his administration first called the conflict genocide. The action bars 31 more companies from accessing the U.S. financial system and targets three individuals.

President Bush stiffened economic sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday in a bid to end bloody conflict in the African nation's Darfur region, saying "the United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world."

The United States ambassador to Baghdad and his Iranian counterpart met for four hours Monday in what the American side called a business-like atmosphere. The talks focused on one subject only: Iraq.

The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad says he and his Iranian counterpart agreed broadly on policy toward Iraq during four hours of talks on Monday. But Iran did not respond to U.S. insistence that it end its support for militants, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said.

British prosecutors have accused a former KGB officer of murder in the case of Alexander Litvinenko, the one-time KGB officer turned Russian dissident who was killed with a radioactive poison in London last year.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz agreed to leave his post next month, marking the first time in the bank's history that its president has had to resign. Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration official, had been under intense pressure to leave due to allegations that he arranged a promotion and generous pay raise for his girlfriend.

Robert Johnson is the founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television. He is now taking on Liberia's cause by helping the nation to rebuild. He encourages other Americans to do the same.

Christopher Dell seems to like challenging jobs. He's heading to Kabul later this summer, after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. There, he earned a reputation for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe's regime.

The U.S.-backed government in Lebanon is alarmed by the Bush administration's move to have more contact with the governments of Syria and Iran. The Lebanon government is locked in a 6-month-old confrontation with Hezbollah, which is leading an opposition alliance backed by Iran and Syria.

As an architect of the Iraq war, Paul Wolfowitz has been a lightning rod for critics. Supporters see the embattled World Bank president as a principled defender of democracy. Critics say he's a hawk obsessed with solving the world's ills through military might.