AP - Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in a Gaza Strip soccer stadium Friday in a massive show of support for the ruling Hamas group and its beleaguered government.

AP - Pakistani authorities have illegally detained innocent people on suspicion of terrorism and secretly imprisoned them or handed them to the U.S. for money, Amnesty International alleged in a report released Friday.

AFP - The United Nations warned that fighting between troops and Tamil guerrillas had badly hit tsunami reconstruction as war planes bombed rebels and eight people were killed in new violence.