AP - Israel's persistent building of Jewish homes on disputed land undermines the U.S.-backed attempt to write an Israeli-Palestinian peace draft this year and invites questions about Israel's motives, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
AP - Tea at Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth II, bike rides in a Paris park and the lush German countryside, a stunning view from a Renaissance villa outside Rome, a rare stroll with the pope in the Vatican's private gardens?
AP - Displaced residents trickled back into the hardest-hit areas of Cedar Rapids on Sunday for their first up-close look at flood devastation, while a forecast of an earlier and lower flood crest at Iowa River sparked hope that the university city would escape a similar fate.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a new bid to inject impetus into the faltering Middle East peace process, warned on Sunday that Jewish settlement expansion could harm the talks.
AFP - European foreign ministers gather Monday to take a first look at the EU's battered reform plans after Ireland's stunning rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.
Reuters - More than 1,000 rescue workers
including troops searched on Sunday for 13 people missing after
a powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan, killing at least
nine and injuring over 200.
Reuters - Two human rights groups expressed
concern on Sunday over the fate of Huang Qi, a Chinese activist
who friends fear was detained for offering support to families
of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake.
Reuters - Two months after an Israeli tank shell
killed one of its cameramen in the Gaza Strip, Reuters has
urged the army to release immediately the findings of its
internal investigation in the interests of journalists' safety.
Reuters - U.S-led and Afghan forces killed more
than 15 insurgents in a search for hundreds of prisoners,
including Taliban, who broke out of jail after comrades blew up
the gates, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
Reuters - Western powers warned Iran of further
sanctions if it rejected an incentives offer and pressed on
with sensitive nuclear work, but the Islamic Republic showed no
sign of backing down.
Reuters - Republican John McCain enlisted the
high-profile help of Carly Fiorina, once the most powerful
businesswoman in the United States, on Saturday to try to get
women behind his campaign for the White House.
AP - Police say the wife of rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested in California's Orange County for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.
