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 - China's Xinhua News Agency says foreign ministers of the six countries involved in North Korea nuclear disarmament talks will meet in Singapore this week.

Reuters - Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition will begin negotiations on Tuesday on a power-sharing deal that could end a political crisis, an official for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said.

AP - India's government faces a too-close-to-call confidence vote Tuesday that could scuttle a landmark nuclear energy accord with the United States and lead to early elections.

AP - The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.

AP - Diplomats say talks between Zimbabwe's ruling and opposition parties will soon get under way in South Africa's capital.

AP - He was accused of masterminding massacres that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history."

AP - A judge finished interrogating former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic early Tuesday, the first step in a procedure to hand over the accused mastermind of Europe's worst massacre since World War II to a U.N. war crimes tribunal.

AP - Pope Benedict XVI ended his visit to Australia Monday by meeting with victims of sexual abuse inflicted by Roman Catholic clergy — an issue that has scandalized the church at a time when the Vatican concedes it is struggling to draw people to its fold.

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.