SAN JOSE DE GUAVIARE, Colombia (AP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that two hostages were freed by Colombian rebels yesterday. He spoke with the Colombian women by phone and they are being flown out of the jungle aboard Venezuelan helicopters.

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (AP): Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Senator, John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost the United States election to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run, a year ago....

LONDON (AP): The beast of the Book of Revelation intruded into the banter of the House of Commons, yesterday, when a motion calling for the disestablishment of the Church of England was numbered 666. The last book of the Bible says that 666 is the number of a beast...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP):

South Africa's national police chief went to court, yesterday, to try to stop prosecutors from pursuing a corruption case against him.

JERUSALEM (AP):

United States President George W. Bush, summing up meetings with both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, said yesterday that a peace accord will require ''painful political concessions'' by each.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP):

South Africa's national police chief went to court, yesterday, to try to stop prosecutors from pursuing a corruption case against him.