AFP - The International Cricket Council will decide Thursday whether Pakistan can host the Champions Trophy in September amid security fears in the country.
Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a deal
laying down the framework for formal talks on forming a power
sharing government to end a deep political crisis.
AFP - The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann voiced relief Monday after their status as suspects in her disappearance was lifted, and looked forward to gaining access to Portuguese police files.
AP - India's prime minister has long been regarded as the consummate non-politician, a sober technocrat more comfortable with the arcane details of economic policy than the rough-and-tumble world of Indian politics.
AP - Half of Beijing's drivers left their cars at home Monday and took public transportation instead on the first workday under new restrictions meant to clear this city's notoriously polluted skies before next month's Olympics.
AP - Iraq's security has improved so much, even as U.S. troop levels have dropped, that President Bush seems likely to order thousands more soldiers home by year's end.
AP - Iraq's government welcomed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday with word that it apparently shares his hope that U.S. combat forces could leave by 2010.
AFP - An Indian-born surgeon linked to the deaths of more than a dozen patients in Australia appeared in court on Monday to face a string of charges including manslaughter, court officials said.
AP - Hours of fighting in the Somali capital killed at least seven civilians, including three young siblings who were leaving a religious school when a mortar landed nearby, witnesses said Monday.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, ending a pilgrimage to the country with a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church.
