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SELMER, Tennessee (AP) -- Members of the congregation planted flowers Saturday outside the Fourth Street Church of Christ as they waited for their minister's wife to be brought home to face first-degree murder charges in the death of her husband. The gardening project and a spring cleanup had been planned weeks ago by Matthew Winkler, the 31-year-old minister who was shot to death at the parsonage he shared with his wife Mary and their three young children. "We're doing this because Matt ...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Black-clad riot police clubbed demonstrators as government opponents marched Saturday in defiance of a show of force by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko that has drawn U.S. and European Union sanctions. A week into protests set off by the disputed election that handed Lukashenko a third term, opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich told a crowd of thousands that momentum is growing to bring democracy to Belarus. "We are starting work against dictatorshi ...

By Paul Darrow OFF CANADA'S EAST COAST (Reuters) - Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups on Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups. This year, 325,000 young seals will be killed on the ice floes off the East Coast where the animals gather. Unusually warm weather means the floes are a fraction of their normal size and thickness, prompting hunters to kill the seals individually rather than clubbing them t ...

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) -- Detectives used profiles posted on the MySpace social networking Web site to identify six suspects in a rape and robbery that began when a party turned violent, leaving blood "in almost every room of the house," officials said. Six men were arrested in connection with the February 23 rampage, and a seventh suspect was being sought, Detective Ali Bartley said Fr ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia said Saturday that they have discovered the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and modern man. The hominid cranium -- found in two pieces and believed to be between 250,000 and 500,000 years old -- "comes from a very significant period and is very close to the appearan ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group which killed an Italian reporter in 2004 said it was watching foreign journalists but would only kill those it considers to be spies for its U.S.-led enemies. Al Jazeera television broadcast an interview on Saturday with a man it described as the spokesman of the Islamic Army in Iraq, who accused the United States of responsibility for the car bombs that  ...

By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - Reading will join the elite of English football for the first time in their 135-year history next season after Saturday's 1-1 draw at Leicester City guaranteed a top-two finish in the second division. With six games remaining Reading cannot be caught by third-placed Watford, who lost 2-0 at home to Millwall, and would have gone up on Saturday anyway even if K ...

By Paul Darrow OFF CANADA'S EAST COAST (Reuters) - Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups on Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups. This year, 325,000 young seals will be killed on the ice floes off the East Coast where the animals gather. Hunters in boats shot the seals on Saturday as they lay on small ice floes and then dashed over to the bodies in hopes of retrieving them before they sank. At one po ...

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Six young people were shot to death early Saturday at a home, apparently at a party, and the alleged gunman committed suicide when confronted by police, authorities said. Three other victims were taken to a hospital after the shootings in the Capitol Hill neighborhood east of downtown, said police spokesman Rich Pruitt. Two of the three were in critical condition, he said. "It's one of the largest crime scenes the city has ever had," said Police Chief Gil  ...

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE, Canada (AP) -- Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the first day of Canada's contentious seal hunt, which animal rights activist claim is barbaric and not economically worth the bad publicity. The fishermen in the isolated island communities of Quebec and Newfoundland say the world's largest seal hunt supplements their meager winter incomes, particularly since cod stocks have dwindled dramatically since the mid 1990s. The hunt brought ...