Suspected militants beheaded a man and dumped his body in a tribal region near the Afghan border, leaving a note on the corpse accusing him of spying for the United States, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused his nation's main telecommunications company of spying on him, apparently at the bidding of the United States.

An Iranian legislator says a man has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information about Iran's nuclear activities to the country's main opposition group, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK).

Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of new Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Stanislaw Wielgus, who gave up the post only three days after admitting he cooperated with Poland's communist-era secret police.

Afghan officials have detained two men, accusing them of spying for Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. Afghanistan has repeatedly accused the spy network of supporting Taleban insurgents, and relations between the two countries have been increasingly confrontational.

A Cuban-American professor accused of spying for Havana has pleaded guilty to lesser conspiracy charges in a U.S. court.