AP - A Sept. 11 defendant refused to leave his Guantanamo prison cell Monday and join four other alleged coconspirators in court, delaying the start of a pretrial hearing.

AFP - Lewis Hamilton will have to wait until Tuesday to find out if his win at the Belgian Grand Prix is to be reinstated, according to the FIA on Monday.

AP - Marek Tomasikiewicz and his family left Poland a few years ago for higher wages and better schools in Britain, but times have changed.

AP - Somalia's warring sides pounded the capital with mortar rounds and gunfire Monday, killing 30 people — including a family of seven — as Islamic insurgents who want to topple the government gain significant power.

AP - The head of the Chinese agency that monitors food and product safety has resigned, state media announced Monday, pushed out by a scandal over tainted baby formula that killed four babies and sickened nearly 53,000.

AP - A group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians were kidnapped during an adventure safari to one of the remotest sites in Egypt deep in the Sahara desert and were taken across the border into neighboring Sudan, officials said Monday.

AP - Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott hotel devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior official said Monday. A hotel official, however, denied there were any plans for a government dinner.

AFP - A change in the leadership of Australia's opposition conversatives paid dividends Monday, with new leader Malcolm Turnbull increasing his party's standing in opinion polls.

AFP - Heavy fighting across Sri Lanka's war-torn north has left at least 59 rebels and eight soldiers dead, the defence ministry said Monday.

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began a five-nation tour Sunday with a stop in Cuba to visit ailing former leader Fidel Castro.

AP - Exactly one month before the bombing that would take her life, a young Yemeni-American left an upstate New York city with her trousseau and wedding dress to marry a man she'd never met and eventually settle down in the ancestral country she'd never visited.

AFP - The FTSE rose 0.18 percent in initial trade on Monday, as investors responded to a massive US rescue plan for the distressed financial sector.

AP - South African President Thabo Mbeki told the nation Sunday that he had resigned, having lost a power struggle to a rival tainted by allegations of corruption but poised now to lead the country.