WORLD / Center
Actress Elizabeth Taylor is accompanied by bodyguards as she exits CNN Studios after an appearance on "Larry King Live" in Los Angeles May 30, 2006. [Reuters]
· Russia, China close ranks in Central Asia
· China emerging from shadows of AIDS
· Court hears last appeal for fugitive Lai
· Foot-and-mouth in Hubei, Gansu
· Yangtze river 'cancerous' with pollution
· ElBaradei: Iran not an immediate nuclear threat
· Pentagon: Iraq insurgency steady until '07
· U.S. moving 1,500 troops to Iraq
· Troops keep watch over Afghan capital
· Iran wants to resume EU talks
