Family members say a pilot from Minnesota survived a cargo plane crash that killed three other American crew members in China. Read More

A senior Hamas official says the Islamic militant group is still sparring with Israel over the names of 50 prisoners it wants released in exchange for a captive Israeli soldier. Read More

Iran's nuclear chief asserted Monday that the U.N. atomic watchdog's critical report was pushing Tehran to develop new nuclear facilities. France, meanwhile, pressed for new sanctions against Iran, saying diplomacy was not working. Read More

Switzerland says the country's new ban on the building of minarets is not aimed at Muslims but at Islamic fundamentalism. Read More

John Demjanjuk was brought by ambulance to a Munich court on Monday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, opening the final chapter of some 30 years of efforts to prosecute the retired Ohio autoworker. Read More

A police official says four people died when a jail cell wall fell on them during an attempted prison escape in Congo's capital. Read More

Army teams and planes searched the desert nation Monday for three Spanish volunteers kidnapped by gunmen, and Spain's interior minister said he suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamists were behind the attack. Read More

One of Italy's top criminal defense lawyers is making final arguments for the ex-boyfriend of American student Amanda Knox in the trial for the 2007 murder of a British student in Perugia. Read More

Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and show that Hondurans want to put a summer coup behind them. Read More

The death toll from the capsizing of a ferry over the weekend in southern Bangladesh rose Monday to 77 after rescuers recovered an additional 19 bodies. Read More

A rogue Afghan police officer opened fire at a checkpoint in southwest Afghanistan, killing six police officers and injuring two, an official said Monday. Read More

Pakistani security forces targeted militants fleeing a major army offensive close to the Afghan border Monday, killing 10 of them, an army officer said. Read More

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic's counterintelligence service said Monday. Read More

The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work around the world next year, with Sudan and its troubled Darfur region most in need and Afghanistan rising to second. Read More

He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Read More

Some 1,000 journalists and activists marched Monday in the capital to protest the massacre in the southern Philippines of 57 civilians, including at least 30 journalists and their staff in the world's deadliest attack on the media. Read More

Interpol says African wildlife authorities have seized nearly 3,800 pounds (1,700 kilograms) of illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation. Read More

Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in bombing the Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train and the death toll from the horrific derailment rose to 26. Read More

Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government was supposed to be a harmonious alliance that would focus energetically on reviving Europe's biggest economy. Read More

South Korea's navy rescued a North Korean soldier found in the waters off the west coast and authorities were questioning him over whether he had been spying, an official said Monday. Read More