AP - Afghan authorities Monday handed over to Pakistan officials the son of a American-educated Pakistani woman who's been labeled an al-Qaida supporter and is on trial in the United States.

AP - Security forces backed by helicopter gunships and heavy artillery struck suspected militant hide-outs in northwest Pakistan, killing 32 people, including three women, an official said Monday.

AFP - Four people died in a helicopter crash Sunday in Western Australia's remote Kimberly region, police said.

AFP - US oil giant Chevron Sunday confirmed a shooting incident at one of its facilities in southern Nigeria, after a top militia group declared an "oil war" in the region.

AP - At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyer belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected only by a corrugated metal roof.

AP - Israel's government had its first discussion Sunday of a plan to offer West Bank settlers cash to leave their homes, a largely symbolic step taken as the prime minister approaches the premature end of his term.

AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday celebrated mass before 150,000 faithful in the shrine town of Lourdes before urging French bishops to defend church doctrine on marriage and divorce.

AP - The Russian long-range bombers that have resumed missions into the Western Hemisphere nearly 20 years after the end of the Cold War are delivering a clear message: Russia wants to be seen as a global superpower once again.

AP - People must cling to hope even in dire circumstances like injustice and torture, Pope Benedict XVI told the faithful at Sunday Mass in Lourdes, which has become a shrine for desperate causes and hope against all odds.

AP - Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.

AP - An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president's spokesman said Sunday.