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In turnabout, Iraq seeking new counterterror aid from US 2 years after troop withdrawal
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bloody resurgence of al-Qaida in Iraq is prompting Baghdad to ask the U.S. for more weapons, training and manpower, two years after pushing American troops out of the country.
• The request will be discussed during a White House meeting Friday between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Barack Obama in what Baghdad hopes will be a fresh start in a complicated relationship that has been marked both by victories and frustrations for each side.
• Al-Maliki will discuss Iraq's plight in a public speech Thursday at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington.
• "We know we have major challenges of our own capabilities being up to the standard. They currently are not," Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the U.S., told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "We need to gear up, to deal with that threat more seriously. We need support and we need help."
• He added, "We have said to the Americans we'd be more than happy to discuss all the options short of boots on the ground."
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Worst-to-first Red Sox win 1st World Series title at Fenway Park since 1918
• BOSTON (AP) -- More than an hour after the final out, players lingered on the field and fans stood by their seats, cheering, singing and applauding.
• A celebration nearly a century in the making was unfolding at the old ballpark, a long-awaited moment generations of New Englanders had never been able to witness.
• Turmoil to triumph. Worst to first. A clincher at Fenway Park.
• David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox, baseball's bearded wonders, capped their remarkable turnaround by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 in Game 6 on Wednesday night to win their third World Series championship in 10 seasons.
• When it was over, Ortiz took a microphone on the field and addressed the city, just as he did a week after the marathon bombings last April.
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