Reuters - The African Union and United Nations are working to appoint a joint chief mediator to jumpstart efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region, U.N. Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson said on Monday.

AP - A car has plowed into a bike race along a highway near the US-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others.

AP - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vows that his country will continue with its nuclear program, but says that he rejects nuclear weapons.

AFP - International Development Minister Douglas Alexander vowed Tuesday to snub Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe at a world food summit in Rome, calling his participation "obscene."

AP - A panel of auditors said Monday it found no evidence that a U.N. anti-poverty program in North Korea knew of any counterfeiting, money laundering or other improper financial dealings linked to U.N. money.

AP - Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last month's earthquake.

AP - World leaders meeting at a U.N. summit Tuesday will try to figure out how to head off skyrocketing food prices before millions more join the multitudes across the globe who already lack enough to eat.

AP - More than 1 million people still don't have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Myanmar, and it's not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday.

AP - Investigators reviewed security video and picked through debris Tuesday to determine whether a suicide attacker blew up a massive car bomb outside the Danish embassy, killing six people.

AP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd accused his predecessor of abusing intelligence information to justify entering the Iraq war, saying Monday that the Australian people were misled.

Reuters - A U.N. agency accused by the United States of financial mismanagement in North Korea escaped charges of major wrongdoing in a review made public on Monday, and its chief said this brought closure to the affair.

AP - Colombia's national disaster office says the death toll has reached 23 from a mudslide that buried several dozen homes in a poor district of Medellin.

AP - A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming.