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AP - 51 minutes ago
Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.
 
  • Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon
    AP - 1 hour , 48 minutes ago
    The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  • Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people
    AP - 2 hours , 12 minutes ago
    A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes.
  • Death toll 44 in Guatemala mudslides; more missing
    AP - 3 hours , 53 minutes ago
    Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala's official death toll to 44 after days of torrential rains.
  • NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years
    AP - 7 hours , 4 minutes ago
    Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.
  • Argentines risking all to carry huge wads of cash
    AP - 3 hours , 17 minutes ago
    The "marker" lurks inside the bank, looking for people pulling large amounts of cash from a safe deposit box or bank account. The gunmen linger outside, usually on motorcyles, waiting to make their move.
  • UN nuke agency warns monitoring of Iran hampered
    AP - 4 hours , 3 minutes ago
    The U.N. atomic agency expressed alarm Monday about Iran's decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country's nuclear program were suffering as a result.
  • French unions launch strike over pension overhaul
    AP - 4 hours , 27 minutes ago
    French train traffic began tapering off Monday at the start of what promises to be a major strike over unpopular conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
  • Mozambican radio: 9 who call for protests arrested
    AP - 4 hours , 29 minutes ago
    Mozambicans found Monday they could not send text messages, after some used the technology to call for protests in this impoverished country over increases in food, water and electricity prices.
  • Unions suspend South African civil service strike
    AP - 4 hours , 44 minutes ago
    South African civil servants unions are suspending a nationwide strike for higher wages to give members time to consider the government's latest offer, labor leaders said Monday.
  • Jerry Hall's art collection on auction block
    AP - 4 hours , 51 minutes ago
    Model Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby's said Monday.
  • Lax safety in Congo makes river travel dangerous
    AP - 5 hours , 1 minute ago
    In a country of dense rain forests with few paved roads, boarding an overcrowded boat on a treacherous river is simply a way of life. This weekend, journeys on the dangerous waterways stole the lives of up to 270 people.
  • Lebanon PM: Wrong to accuse Syria in Hariri death
    AP - 5 hours , 35 minutes ago
    Lebanon's Western-backed prime minister made a startling reversal Monday and said it was a mistake to accuse Syria of the massive 2005 truck bombing that killed his father, claiming the charge was politically motivated.
  • Chavez's base, the poor, wobbles as election looms
    AP - 6 hours , 17 minutes ago
    On a hilltop overlooking Caracas, dozens of shacks made of wood scraps and corrugated zinc have risen among tall weeds -- a new slum tacked on to an old one as the poor face harder times in Venezuela.
  • Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case
    AP - 6 hours , 49 minutes ago
    A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.
  • Germany's Merkel praises extending nuclear energy
    AP - 7 hours , 6 minutes ago
    Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday touted her government's decision to put off shutdown of the country's nuclear power plants by an average 12 years as "revolution of the energy supply" in Europe's largest economy.
  • NATO asks for more troops for Afghanistan
    AP - 7 hours , 7 minutes ago
    The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for 2,000 more soldiers to join the 140,000-strong international force here, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans.
  • Delta launches new flight from Liberia to US
    AP - 7 hours , 10 minutes ago
    Delta Air Lines Inc. has launched a new flight from the U.S. to Liberia, becoming the first American carrier to serve the West African nation that is recovering from more than a decade of civil war.
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