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By Mike Collett-White VENICE (Reuters) - The 11-day Venice Film Festival winds up on Saturday after a red carpet award ceremony on the glamorous Lido beach front, with British entry "The Queen" and Hollywood's "Bobby" favourites to take away the main prize. When last year's Golden Lion award went to Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" it was an expected and popular choice at the world's oldest film festival, but 2006 lacks such a clear frontrunner. Film critics and the public alike have hailed Ste ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A teenage boy was shot dead in the Moss Side district of Greater Manchester early on Saturday with police believing the young victim had been specifically targeted. The 15-year-old was found unconscious and not breathing in Moss Side's Raby Street after police received reports shortly before 2.40 a.m. about an incident. "We have reason to believe this was not a random shooting ...

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Hoping for good weather and better luck, NASA started fuelling the space shuttle Atlantis on Saturday for a last-ditch attempt to launch a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 11:15 a.m. (1515 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on the final day of the shuttle's two-week launch window. Weather conditions are forecast to be favourable for liftoff. NASA has been trying to get the s ...

By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands queued at Beijing's Mao Zedong Mausoleum on Saturday for a glimpse of the embalmed corpse of the former Great Helmsman on the 30th anniversary of his death but Chinese state media kept coverage of the event low-key. Police and undercover agents infiltrating crowds outside the squat building on Tiananmen Square were a reminder of government sensitivity about how the man who founded "new China" -- but then plunged it into bouts of famine and  ...

By Krittivas Mukherjee MALEGAON, India (Reuters) - A Muslim-majority town in western India buried its dead throughout the night and troops patrolled the streets on Saturday to prevent religious riots, a day after bomb blasts killed 32 people and wounded dozens. Police said there was tension in Malegaon, a textile centre in Maharashtra state, after Friday's serial bomb explosions hit mostly Islamic worshippers. But there were no reports of violence during the night. The town of about 700,000 p ...

By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - It was the kind of scenario that comedian Sacha Baron Cohen himself might have scripted, although the setting would have been a fictional run-down Kazakh movie theatre, and not a posh 1,000-seat auditorium on the opening night of the Toronto film festival. The midnight screening Cohen's film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", had been getting raucous screams of laughter before the projector suddenly cut  ...

By Pete Harrison LONDON (Reuters) - Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its chairman faced charges in the United States for providing "gambling by computer," sparking fears no executive in the $12-billion (6.4 billion pound) a-year industry was safe from prosecution. Sportingbet said Chairman Peter Dicks had been arrested at JFK Airport in New York early on Thursday for alleged violation of Louisiana state laws, mirroring the arrest in July of another CEO on racketeering charges. Dicks was rele ...

By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israeli and Arab diplomats feuded bitterly on the U.N. General Assembly floor on Friday after the United Nations approved a largely symbolic global plan to combat terrorism three days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The counter-terrorism "plan of action," approved by the 192-nation assembly without a formal vote, laid out eight pages of broad goals and measures to prevent terrorist acts, address the conditions that may foster ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ian Bell and Andrew Strauss upstaged Pakistan's top-order batsmen to ensure a rare England victory in the fourth one-day international on Friday which kept alive their hopes of squaring the series. Man of the match Bell made 86 not out and Strauss 78, the pair putting on 110 runs for the second wicket at Trent Bridge to ease the home side home to a comfortable eight-wicket win. Kevin Pietersen was the other not-out batsman with 41 off 48 balls in England's total of 237 for t ...

By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - Civil war erupted in Tony Blair's Labour Party on Friday as a former minister resumed attacks on heir-presumptive Gordon Brown despite appeals for calm after the prime minister's pledge to quit within a year. Former Interior Minister Charles Clarke, who was told earlier by colleagues to "shut up" after describing Chancellor Brown as "stupid, stupid, stupid", went on to attack his one-time ministerial colleague as a control freak. "It's a controlling thing - ...