BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - China has evacuated more than 150,000 people living below a swollen lake formed by this month’s devastating earthquake amid fears it could burst and trigger massive flooding, state media said on Wednesday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defence Minister Ehud Barak may call on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step down from office or temporarily suspend himself after the latest testimony in a bribery case, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that U.S. President Bush “veered terribly off course” and was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” Politico.com reported on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The top U.S. envoy in nuclear negotiations with North Korea said he hoped talks in the Chinese capital on Wednesday would help bring “definitive progress” on a long-delayed disarmament agreement.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday helped raise about .5 million for the man he hopes will succeed him, but did it in private amid questions about whether the unpopular president hurts John McCain’s chances in the November election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis’ Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no evidence of a direct threat from al Qaeda or that the group has obtained weapons of mass destruction, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday, despite reports that al Qaeda will release a new video urging jihadists to use such weapons to attack the West.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi’ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand formally apologised on Wednesday to its Vietnam War veterans for unfair and harsh treatment they received on their return.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany unveiled a monument to the tens of thousands of homosexuals persecuted under the Nazis, whose laws were used to prosecute gay men for a generation after World War Two.