Israeli officials called on Sunday for relations with Egypt to return to normal despite Friday's attack by a mob on Israel's embassy in Cairo.

"We shall do everything in order that relations between the two countries will return to normal," Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, considered close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told public radio.

State police explosives experts gave an all-clear Saturday after investigating a "suspicious item" that forced gate evacuations at Dulles airport near Washington on the eve of 9/11 anniversary events, a spokesman told Agence France Presse.

A item was detected around 4:30 pm (20:30 GMT), and an area around a cargo container on an airfield was evacuated, said Dulles International Airport spokesman Robert Yingling.

The United States should view China's growing role in the Pacific as grounds for cooperation rather than concern, a top Chinese official said Friday, amid anxiety over Beijing's new assertiveness.

Washington and China's neighbors have expressed increasing fears about Beijing's claims in the South China Sea, military spending and new high-tech equipment, including an aircraft carrier that trialed last month.

Almost half of personal computer users around the world get their software illegally, with China's massive market the worst culprit, a report claimed Wednesday.

A Business Software Alliance (BSA) survey showed 47 percent of PC users globally believe there is nothing wrong with using unauthorized copies of software programs.

U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly lauded Premier Najib Miqati for announcing that the Lebanese government will fund the international tribunal and rejecting to interfere in Syria’s internal affairs.

In remarks to An Nahar daily published Saturday, Connelly also praised Miqati for saying Lebanon was committed to international resolutions particularly 1701.

The stuttering U.S. economy added no jobs in August amid recession fears and political turmoil over the government's finances, bleak official data showed Friday.

Employment in the private sector, previously the main engine for job growth as revenue-strapped governments shed workers, "changed little" in most major industries, the Labor Department said.

Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks said on Friday it had published its full cache of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, which could be accessed through an Internet link without a password.

"RELEASE CABLEGATE2: 251,287 U.S. embassy cables in searchable format," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter account.

Iran on Saturday inaugurated a plant for producing carbon fiber, which it is banned from importing by international sanctions targeting dual-use materials, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Today we are witnessing the fulfillment of a strategic project of the Ministry of Defense," Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said as he inaugurated the production facility, IRNA reported.

Syrian police are hunting for the attackers who broke the hand of the country's leading political cartoonist, the official SANA news agency said Friday, after Washington condemned the attack.

"The competent authorities at the Interior Ministry are seeking the culprits in order to bring them to justice," the agency said.

A 4.5 magnitude aftershock jolted Virginia and the region around the U.S. capital early Thursday, rattling residents recovering from a rare east coast earthquake two days earlier.

The epicenter of the tremor which struck at 1:07 am (0507 GMT) was just eight kilometers (five miles) south of Mineral, Virginia, the epicenter of Tuesday's 5.8 magnitude quake, the National Earthquake Information Center reported.