AFP - Philippine rescue teams battled furious seas and high winds Monday in a desperate hunt for more survivors of a ferry that sank in a typhoon with 862 people aboard.
AFP - Zimbabwe's ruling party said Monday that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's decision to withdraw from this week's presidential run-off was a ruse, and urged its supporters to campaign hard.
Reuters - Sectarian fighting raged for a
second day in north Lebanon on Monday, further denting a
Qatari-brokered deal to end the country's political crisis.
Reuters - Secretive North Korea wants to invite
five foreign news companies to record the destruction of the
cooling tower at its ageing nuclear complex in a show of its
will to abide by a disarmament deal, media reported on Monday.
Reuters - Record foreclosures and limited access
to credit will make it harder than usual to rebound from this
U.S. housing market slump, the worst at least since World War
Two, according to a Harvard University study on Monday.
Reuters - Rescuers held little hope on
Monday of finding some 800 people missing from a capsized ferry
in the Philippines, as divers prepared to drill into the ship's
hull in the hope of finding survivors in air pockets.
Reuters - John McCain will push on Monday for car
makers to build more environmentally friendly vehicles,
threatening new legislation if they do not comply and proposing
tax breaks to encourage consumers to buy "cleaner" cars.
Reuters - Iran said on Monday it was encouraged by
common points between its and world powers' separate proposals
aimed at defusing a nuclear dispute, but again dismissed any
suggestion of suspending uranium enrichment.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai
will urge Africa this week to pile pressure on President Robert
Mugabe to solve the country's political crisis after the
opposition pulled out of a presidential run-off vote.
AP - Friends, relatives and show-business colleagues gathered Sunday to remember Oscar-winning special-effects maestro Stan Winston, the man responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" and other iconic movie creatures to life.
AP - Facing strong U.S. pressure and global dismay over oil prices, Saudi Arabia said Sunday it will produce more crude this year if the market needs it. But the vague pledge fell far short of U.S. hopes for a specific increase and may do little to lower prices immediately.
AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.
AP - The water is still well above the banks of the upper Mississippi River, but residents of both flooded towns and those protected by levees and sandbags can see an ending: The river is cresting.
