AP - Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass.

AP - Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military helicopters carried reporters to tour the disaster zone.

AFP - Australia's arts community reacted with anger and amazement Monday to the closure of a photo exhibition of naked children and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's condemnation of the images as "revolting".

AFP - A NATO soldier and three Afghan security personnel were killed in a string of explosions and ambushes linked to a Taliban-led insurgency, security officials said Monday.

AP - Militants said they destroyed an oil pipeline Monday in Nigeria's petroleum-producing region and killed 11 soldiers in an ensuing gunbattle with security forces.

AP - Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, a peasant's son who built Latin America's mightiest guerrilla army but failed in a half century of struggle to trigger a communist revolution in Colombia, is dead. He was believed to be 78.

AP - The U.S. military says a U.S. soldier has been killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad.

AFP - Police in London have been given more time to question a 21-year-old man held on suspicion of fatally stabbing a teenager actor who played a role in the forthcoming Harry Potter film, Scotland Yard said on Monday.

AP - Environment chiefs from the world's top industrial countries pledged "strong political will" Monday toward cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, declaring that developed nations should take the lead in battling global warming.

AP - A U.S. Treasury official said Monday the global credit crunch is gradually calming following efforts by the Federal Reserve and other central banks.

AP - The leader of Taiwan's new ruling party promised Monday to seek peace and economic engagement with China ahead of his trip to the mainland to meet President Hu Jintao.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed back to New York on Monday, saying he hoped Myanmar's military regime would honor its promise to open up cyclone-devastated areas of the country to foreign aid workers.

AP - Chinese soldiers prepared Monday to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims.

AFP - Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe called for unity in his faltering party on Sunday ahead of run-off elections next month in a fiery speech in which he also threatened to expel the US ambassador.