AMMAN - THE United States is expected to announce soon a new plan to kick-start the deadlocked Middle East peace talks, Jordan's King Abdullah II told AFP in an interview on Saturday.

STOCKHOLM - A GOVERNMENT health agency says it has confirmed Sweden's third case of swine flu.

BERLIN - THOUSANDS of German workers marched through Berlin on Saturday to demand the government do more to protect jobs, highlighting popular concerns about unemployment in the run up to September's federal election.