AP - As students filed into Middle School No. 1 on Monday for the first day of classes since the cyclone hit Myanmar a month ago, all eyes stared skyward — at the gaping hole in the roof.

AP - Workers in hazmat suits crisscrossed collapsed communities in trucks Monday, spraying disinfectant as part of a government campaign to prevent disease outbreaks among 5 million left homeless by last month's earthquake.

AP - A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy on Monday, killing at least six people just weeks after an al-Qaida leader urged attacks against Denmark for newspaper caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

AP - Australia, a staunch U.S. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, ended combat operations there Sunday.

AFP - A suicide car bombing outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Monday killed at least eight people and wounded nearly 30 others, state television and officials said.

AP - Zimbabwe's state media says President Robert Mugabe will attend a U.N. food summit in Italy.

AFP - Shares in Bradford & Bingley fell by 30 percent on Monday after the bank issued a profits warning, agreed to a massive cash injection from a US investment fund and lost its chief executive.

AP - For eight years President Pervez Musharraf dominated Pakistan and charmed the West by presenting himself as a straight-talking ally in the war on terror.

AP - The rubble-strewn streets of Wufu are lined with wreaths. White flowers made of folded paper hang from bushes. And among the symbols of grief, roiling anger is openly directed at China's government.

AP - Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, will be remembered for empowering women through his fashion, a longtime friend and associate said.

AP - One month after a cyclone left more than 130,000 people dead or missing, Myanmar's military government reopened many of the country's schools Monday despite worries that the extent of damage could put children in harm's way.

AP - Police say a huge explosion near the Danish embassy in Pakistan's capital has killed at least three people, wounded eight and badly damaged the embassy.