BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have spoken of moving beyond the divisions between the nations toward joint efforts on issues they agree on. After a two-hour meeting, they promised to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles. Human rights, trade and military tensions remain vexing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say taxing the rich to pay for health care for have-nots works for them. A new Associated Press poll finds that of all the approaches Congress is considering to pay for the health care overhaul, the only one that got majority support was a new income tax on upper-income people.

COPENHAGEN (AP) — Denmark's prime minister says industrial countries shouldn't come to next month's climate summit in Copenhagen empty-handed. He says he told leaders at an Asian summit last week they should bring specific pledges with them to cut greenhouse gases.

HARDEEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A car trying to drive around a railroad crossing has been hit by an Amtrak train, killing four people in the vehicle. Officials say three adults and a 12-year-old child died in the crash near the South Carolina-Georgia state line. No one on the train was hurt.

BERLIN (AP) — Afghanistan and Iraq are listed by an international watchdog as being among the world's most corrupt countries. The annual report of Transparency International says war-ravaged Somalia is still the worst, followed by Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Iraq. The report says Singapore, Denmark and New Zealand are the most principled countries around the globe.