BEIJING (AP) - (AP) - China acknowledges for first time that 19,000 students died in May earthquake.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the European Union's peacekeeping force in Bosnia for a year, emphasizing the importance of the country's progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Minh Triet, agreed on Thursday to create a $200 million joint development fund to strengthen economic cooperation between the socialist countries.

OTTAWA (AP) - French authorities allege an Ottawa university professor bought a motorcycle used in a bombing that killed four people and injured 20 at a Paris synagogue in 1980, according to court documents released Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Three former child soldiers from Africa announced the launch of a new U.N.-backed advocacy group Thursday to help other kids escape and heal from war.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A U.S. military judge has blocked Pentagon prosecutors from using a Guantanamo prisoner's statements to U.S. authorities as trial evidence, saying they were tainted by an earlier confession tortured out of the suspect by Afghan officials.