AP - An American member of al-Qaida was picked up in a raid in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, Pakistani officials said Monday, but reversed earlier assertions that the detained man was the terror network’s U.S.-born spokesman.
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AP - A suicide car bomber Monday struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more including women taking children to school, officials said.
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AP - The top U.S. general for Iraq says the country’s national election was a milestone on the way to a full pullout of U.S. combat troops by September 1 as planned.
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AFP - An elephant calf has died during days of labour at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo, where its mother was a part of a programme to breed endangered Asian elephants, officials said Monday.
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Time.com - Medieval admiral Zheng He has become a potent symbol for modern China
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AP - A strong rain on a chilly night added to the misery Monday of survivors of Chile’s terrible earthquake and tsunami, many of whom live in tents and improvised shelters as continuing aftershocks threaten to collapse what’s left of their homes.
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AFP - Britain’s decision to back the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 earned it respect in the Middle East and it must not be scared of similar action in the future, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday.
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Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates cautioned against over-optimism despite “bits and pieces of good news” from Afghanistan, warning of hard days ahead as he arrived on Monday to meet generals and President Hamid Karzai.
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AFP - Nigeria’s government sent in troops to the flashpoint Jos region on Monday after machete-wielding gangs attacked Christian villages, killing at least 500 people, officials say.
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AP - A strong, pre-dawn earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people as it knocked down stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages, the government said.
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