AP - The Nigerian military says kidnappers have released an Israeli hostage unharmed.

AP - The U.S. military has handed over security control of the western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces.

AFP - European Union leaders will put the bloc's relations with Moscow under scrutiny at an emergency summit on Monday, although sanctions against Russia are not in the cards.

AP - Pakistan suspended fighting in the volatile northwest Monday for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and some of the 300,000 people displaced by air strikes and gunbattles started packing up belongings to return to their shattered homes.

AP - Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily kidnappings and killings.

AP - Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 33 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.

AP - A raid by foreign and Afghan forces in Kabul killed a man and his two children early Monday, a police official and witnesses said.

AP - Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia's leadership and called for an arms embargo against the ex-Soviet republic nation until a different government is in place.

AFP - At least 32 people were killed or reported missing and about 258,000 homes destroyed in a powerful earthquake in southwest China, state media said Sunday.

AFP - Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been in a Saudi hospital for several days, a hospital official said on Sunday, as his government insisted he was in good health.

AP - Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.

AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israel's idea of an interim peace agreement at a Sunday summit, a Palestinian negotiator said, insisting on an all-or-nothing approach that virtually ruled out an accord by a January target date.

AFP - Andrew Flintoff starred with bat and ball as England won the fourth one-day international against South Africa by seven wickets at Lord's on Sunday.

AP - People in the poor, mainly Tamil neighborhood in Colombo described it as a harrowing day.