Reuters - South Korea said on Sunday it would restrict driving of cars owned by public organizations from this week as part of contingency measures aimed at reducing energy consumption in the face of skyrocketing oil prices.

AP - North Korea said Friday it will not take further steps to dismantle its nuclear program until the U.S. and its other negotiating partners award fuel oil and political benefits promised under an aid-for-disarmament deal.

AP - France will build a second new-generation nuclear reactor, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday, pledging a "new industrial revolution" in an era in which fossil fuels have grown too expensive.