GRNlive correspondents Kate Clark and May Jeong in Kabul are available for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

Telegraph: Four US soldiers have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan hours after the US announced it will engage in its first formal direct talks with the Taliban after dropping its long-standin...

Financial Times correspondent Anna Fifield in Washington is available for coverage.

BBC: US President Barack Obama is to use his speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to propose cuts of one-third in American and Russian nuclear arsenals, US officials say.

GRNlive correspondent Jihan Hafiz in Rio de Janiero is avaialble for coverage.

Telegraph: Tens of thousands of protesters return to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Sao Paulo, to voice their frustration with a government they view as corrupt and inefficient.

GRNlive correspondent Roger Maynard in Sydney is available for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

ABC: A serial sex offender was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping and murdering an Irish woman while he was free on parole after previous convictions for raping five women.

GRNlive correspondent Kester Eddy in Budapest is available for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

WSJ: Hungarian Prosecutors have outlined their accusations against alleged Nazi-era war criminal Laszlo Csatary and say his trial should get underway within the next three months.

GRNlive correspondent Philip Willan in Rome is available for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

Telegraph: Meredith Kercher was killed by more than one person in what may have been a group sex game that spiralled out of control, Italy's highest court ruled on Tuesday.

GRNlive correspondents are available for coverage.

Reuters: Mali is ready to sign a deal with Tuareg separatist rebels on Tuesday, paving the way for Malian government troops to return to the rebel-held northern town of Kidal ahead of an election next month, Mali's chief negotiator said.

GRNlive correspondent Jason Strother in Seoul is available for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

VOA: The United States says it is open to North Korea's offer of direct talks, but only after Pyongyang takes concrete action to end its nuclear weapons program.

GRNlive correspondent Peter Richards in Beijing is avaialble for phoners, skypers and live invisions.

MSN: Two Russians were detained near the Chinese border after bear paws, prized for their alleged medicinal value, were discovered in a van.

Washington Post correspondent Ed O'Keefe in Washington is available for coverage.

BBC: An open letter published in the Lancet medical journal calls for hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees to receive independent medical care.