Reuters - Veteran quarterback Brett Favre has
been informed he can end his temporary retirement and return to
the Green Bay Packers on Monday, the NFL Network reported on
Sunday.
Reuters - At least nine climbers have
perished on K-2 in Pakistan in the worst day for mountaineering
on the world's second-highest peak, and the toll could rise
further, expedition organizers said on Sunday.
Reuters - The United States said on Sunday
that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to
increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands
that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.
Reuters - Despite long insisting that sports
and politics don't mix, U.S. President George W. Bush will have
a hard time keeping them separate when he visits China this
week for the Beijing Olympics.
Reuters - China allowed a first foreign orchestra
concert in Tiananmen Square on Sunday but also issued warnings
to would-be protesters in delicate efforts to show openness
while avoiding embarrassment at the Olympics.
Reuters - At least 145 people, mostly
women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of
thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern
India on Sunday, police said.
AP - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.
AP - The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday.
AP - The spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans urged church leaders Sunday not to consecrate any other gay bishops for now, as he ended a once-a-decade Anglican assembly that was dedicated to preventing schism in the troubled fellowship.
AP - A bomb hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them women who were sweeping the street in Somalia's capital, witnesses and doctors said Sunday.
AP - Thousands of panicked pilgrims stampeded Sunday at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India during celebrations to honor a Hindu goddess, sending dozens of people plummeting to their deaths and trampling scores more. Police said 145 people were killed.
