World News
- Canadian prime minister takes election gamble for majority government
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is gambling that an opposition pushing an unpopular carbon tax will steer Canadian voters to the right in Tuesday's election and bolster his hold on power.
- Suicide car bombs kill at least 6, wound dozens in Mosul; separate bombing kills 7 in Baghdad
- Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad.
- Top general: NATO not losing Afghan war, but more troops, progress needed
- The top NATO general in Afghanistan on Sunday rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghanistan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency.
- NKorea, responding to removal from US terror list, says nuclear disabling to resume
- North Korea said Sunday it will resume disabling its key nuclear complex after the U.S. dropped the country from a terrorism blacklist - a breakthrough expected to help energize stalled talks aimed at ending the country's atomic ambitions.
- Judge denies Internet access for 9/11 defendants preparing for trial at Guantanamo Bay
- A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Internet access inside his Guantanamo cell, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial.
- Ex-Hurricane Norbert weakens to tropical depression over Mexico, heads toward Texas
- Norbert dissipated into a tropical depression over the northern mountains of mainland Mexico on Sunday, after ripping off roofs, flooding streets, and forcing thousands to seek shelter in Baja California.
- Gunmen kill 6 people at family party in northern Mexican border city
- Gunmen killed six young men at a family party in the gang-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Sunday.
- Most Asian markets higher after last week's rout amid global efforts to aid financial system
- Most Asian stock markets recovered Monday after last week's historic sell-off as governments in Europe and beyond intensified efforts to stabilize the world's troubled financial system.
- Lithuanian returns shows conservatives ahead, centrist government in trouble
- A conservative opposition party was ahead in Lithuania's parliamentary election, but strong support for populist groups set the stage for tricky coalition talks, partial results showed Monday.
- British university holds artificial intelligence test to see if computers can fool people
- Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading.