International
Witness: weapon and wound not compatible
An Italian news agency says a coroner and defense consultant has testified in the trial of American Amanda Knox that a knife believed to have been used in the slaying of a British student is "not compatible" with the victim's stab wound. (Updated: 07/06/09 10:20 AM )
Berlusconi basks in G-8 spotlight
Premier Silvio Berlusconi will bask in his role as host of the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations - a break from the barrage of attacks from a starlet scandal that has engulfed him at home. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:50 AM )
Report: Mugabe calls top US official 'an idiot'
President Robert Mugabe described the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after an acrimonious meeting between the two at an African summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported Monday. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:56 AM )
Right wins Bulgaria vote on anti-corruption ticket
Bulgaria's conservative opposition won elections by a wide margin as voters punished the governing Socialists for failing to crack down on corruption, according to final results released Monday. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:21 AM )
Sarkozy, Brown push against tax havens, regulation
The leaders of France and Britain say the countdown has begun for uncooperative tax havens to improve their transparency or face sanctions by March. (Updated: 07/06/09 8:51 AM )
Britons turn living statues atop London column
It's art for the people, of the people - and definitely by the people. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:41 AM )
UN chief: Use extreme care handling China protests
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is urging China and any country with violent protests to use extreme care toward citizens. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:21 AM )
French experts at sea to hunt for black boxes
French aviation experts set out in speedboats from the Comoros Islands on Monday, trying to pinpoint the exact location of the black boxes from a flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last week, killing 152 people. (Updated: 07/06/09 10:10 AM )
Old ruling party gains in Mexico midterm election
Reviled as a creaky remnant of Mexico's authoritarian past, the old Institutional Revolutionary Party made a big comeback in midterm congressional elections in defiance of those who had written off what is still the country's biggest and most representative party. (Updated: 07/06/09 8:35 AM )
World's oldest Christian Bible digitized
The British Library says the surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited - digitally. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:15 AM )
4 US soldier killed in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers Monday, while a suicide attack in the south killed two civilians, officials said. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:10 AM )
Iran's top leader warns West over alleged meddling
Iran's supreme leader warned Western governments on Monday of a "negative impact" on relations over what he called their meddling in Iran's post-election riots, state television reported. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:50 AM )
Lean times at Pamplona for running of bulls
Daredevils sprinting with one-ton fighting bulls swallow an exhilarating cocktail of adrenalin and fear. Now, a new brand of jitters has set in at one of the world's great fiestas as businesses ponder the partypooping impact of economic woe. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:56 AM )
Plant shutdown reignites German nuclear spat
Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals made it clear Monday they will make nuclear power a major issue in the September national election, following a weekend shutdown at a troubled German nuclear plant. (Updated: 07/06/09 7:40 AM )
Prosecutors call Taylor witness list excessive
The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor could take up to four more years, if his lawyers call all their witnesses, prosecutors told judges Monday at a Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal sitting in The Hague. (Updated: 07/06/09 9:35 AM )
