Move over, James Bond 007. Meet real-life British spy Tommy Sneum who plotted to kill one of the most notorious Nazis during the Second World War by using an unusual weapon - the longbow.

Iranian state radio is reporting that authorities have chosen June 2009 for the next presidential election.

US presidential candidates jostled for the mantle of change on Sunday, as more bad economic news threatened to deepen electoral dissatisfaction with the state of the nation.

Officials say two successive landslides set off by heavy rains have buried several huts in a remote gold-mining village in the southern Philippines, leaving at least 9 people dead and 11 others missing.

Angolan election officials claim early parliamentary poll results give the ruling party a wide lead.

Police backed by the US-led coalition forces killed 15 Taliban militants during a mop-up operation on Sunday in the eastern Afghan province of Khost and arrested two.

Notwithstanding their acrimonious campaign against each other, rival White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain will together pay homage to victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a ceremony in New York on Thursday.

Asif Ali Zardari is expected to be sworn in as Pakistan's president on Monday, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago, an official said.