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The United Nations Security Council is delaying its formal response to North Korea's July 5 missile tests, as diplomats give China time to persuade its longtime ally to cooperate. The tests are challenging China's credibility as an effective diplomatic broker.

After Angela Merkel became Germany's chancellor, she invited President Bush to visit the former East Germany. Merkel grew up in the region, which was once an independent communist nation. The two will have dinner in the small farming town of Trinwillershagen.

President Bush visits Germany, before flying to Russia for the G-8 summit. He is consulting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a key U.S. ally. The Bush administration is counting on Germany's support for a flurry of recent diplomatic initiatives to defuse problems like the nuclear program in Iran.

A video released by Iraqi insurgent groups features what it says are the mutilated bodies of two American soldiers. It claims they were killed in revenge for the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman. Five U.S. soldiers are being held on charges relating to the rape and killing.

President Bush addresses the diplomatic challenge of North Korea's missile tests at a press conference in Chicago, where he vowed to work with allies to pressure the Stalinist nation to abandon its aggressive nuclear weapons program. Don Gonyea talks with Alex Chadwick about the president's remarks.

Israel's current mission in Gaza has two goals, says Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev: to win the release of an Israeli soldier held hostage in Southern Gaza, and to stop rocket attacks from northern Gaza. A prisoner exchange is not an option, the spokesman said -- but "creative solutions" are still possible. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Regev.

North Korea test-fired another missile Wednesday, intensifying the furor ignited when the reclusive regime launched at least six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong, earlier in the day.

The diplomatic fallout from North Korea's missile tests is growing, but in Asia, the responses have been varied. In Seoul, the capital of South Korea, only symbolic responses were being considered, such as a change in how aid to North Korea is distributed.

The United Nations Security Council meets in a closed session to discuss implications of North Korea's testing of ballistic missiles in the past 24 hours. The United States has denounced North Korea's moves as provocation.

Anyone reporting from Iraq has to expect obstacles. In addition to the regular dangers and red tape, reporting from this war zone is always full of surprises, says Philip Reeves in this reporter's notebook.