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JANNAT ABAD, Iran (Reuters) - A Tupolev aircraft crashed in Iran on Wednesday on its way to Armenia after catching fire in mid-air and plowing into farmland, killing all 168 people on board just 16 minutes after take-off.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said on Wednesday that Iran was probably years away from being able to produce and test an atomic bomb.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans kept pressure on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday, hoping to use her confirmation hearing in Congress to paint her as judicial activist who will help President Barack Obama stamp the court with his liberal agenda.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Some Israeli soldiers who took part in the January invasion of the Gaza Strip say they were encouraged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about civilians, and went into Gaza with guns blazing.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) - NASA is poised to try to get the Endeavour space shuttle off the ground and into orbit on Wednesday, after bad weather and technical trouble blighted five previous launch attempts.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) - NASA was poised yet again to try get the Endeavour space shuttle off the ground and into orbit, after bad weather and technical trouble blighted five previous launch attempts.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug gang members killed the mayor of a ranching town in northern Mexico on Tuesday in a revenge attack for a mass arrest of hitmen that already sparked the murder of an American Mormon.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is trying to reach settlements with Steven Rattner, who led the U.S. autos task force, and the private equity firm he co-founded, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Higher costs for oil and gasoline likely pushed U.S. consumer prices up in June by the most for any single month since oil prices peaked last summer, according to a poll of economists.

LONDON (AFP) - Max Mosley confirmed Wednesday he will not seek re-election as head of the sport's ruling body this year and has proposed former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt as his successor.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government rang up a $94.32 billion budget deficit in June, a record for the month, as the price tag for efforts to prop up the economy, banks and automakers mounted while revenues weakened.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A helicopter supplying the NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan, scene of a massive operation by U.S. Marines, crashed on Tuesday killing at least six foreigners, alliance officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying the new H1N1 virus is "unstoppable", the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A U.N. court trying the architects of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Kigali governor for life on five counts including ordering the killing of 60 Tutsi boys in a church-run pastoral center.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean media said on Tuesday that leader Kim Jong-il was keeping up a busy schedule of visits around the country, a day after a South Korean television station said he had life-threatening pancreatic cancer.

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicted two men on Monday on charges of conspiracy and aiding terrorism overseas, according to court papers.