AP - Wall Street turned mixed Monday in the final session of an arduous first half, as the price of oil pulled off its high and temporarily relieved some of the market's inflation worries.
AP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sought a boost of political legitimacy at a summit of African leaders Monday after his re-election was widely discredited as a sham.
AP - Two of Northern California's more than 1,400 wildfires choked parts of the Sierra Nevada foothills, darkening a 100-mile stretch between Sacramento and Reno with clouds of black smoke.
AP - President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and blames his own "carelessness" for some criticism of him so far.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed China's leaders Monday on sensitive human rights issues, but said she was encouraged by their decision to hold talks with the Dalai Lama's envoys.
AFP - Robert Mugabe was attending an African Union summit in Egypt on Monday amid growing calls for African leaders to shun the Zimbabwean president over his widely discredited election win.
Reuters - A Chinese fund manager has won a lunch
with famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett after bidding $2.11
million for the opportunity in a charity auction, more than
three times what the lunch fetched last year.
Reuters - The U.N. World Food Program, which has
warned of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea due to a food
shortage, said on Monday it reached a deal with Pyongyang to
rapidly expand aid, and that a U.S. ship carrying wheat had
arrived.
Reuters - Rebuilding at the World Trade Center
site will take longer and cost more than previously projected,
a report from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is
set to say on Monday, a source familiar with the contents said.
Reuters - Levees on the cresting
Mississippi River held on Sunday as the worst U.S. Midwest
flooding in 15 years began to ebb, but multibillion-dollar crop
losses may boost world food prices for years.
Reuters - Six people were killed and one was
seriously injured on Sunday when two medical helicopters
collided on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, air
officials said.
Reuters - Zimbabwean President
Robert Mugabe arrived on Monday at an African Union summit
where he will be under pressure to negotiate with the
opposition after winning a one-candidate election condemned by
monitors as unfair and violent.
