A soldier from Idaho who disappeared from his base in Afghanistan has been captured, the Pentagon confirmed Sunday, a day after he was seen in a Taliban video posted online.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya held out hope for a negotiated solution to Honduras' deepening political crisis even after talks in Costa Rica fell apart, but vowed to prepare the way for his return to power regardless of their outcome.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is applauding new progress in U.S.-India relations, highlighted by an agreement to broaden cooperation beyond trade and military ties to include agriculture, education and women's issues.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Georgia and Ukraine starting Monday, meeting leaders eager for further reassurance that Washington still supports their joining NATO and that its effort to warm relations with Russia won't come at their expense.

Astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command an American space mission, was inducted Saturday into the National Aviation Hall of Fame.

Iran is due on Sunday to free on bail a local British embassy staffer, who was among a group of nine arrested in post-election unrest in June, his lawyer said.

Forty years after Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon, the now 77-year-old former astronaut still likes to share his memories of space flight with a broad audience -- by painting them.

Hardliners opposed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's appointment of a controversial confidant as first vice president on Sunday, signalling difficulties ahead for Iran's re-elected president in forming a new government.

Rates of HIV infection among gays in some African countries are 10 times that of the general male population, and stigma, poor access to treatment or testing are to blame, doctors said in The Lancet.

California officials hope to reach a deal Sunday on how to erase a US$26.3 billion budget deficit that has forced the state to issue IOU promissory notes for the first time in nearly 20 years.