With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification. Read More

A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class _ publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. Read More

When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup. In minutes, police from 40 patrol cars surrounded the troops, drawing their guns and sending the soldiers diving for cover in an hour-long standoff. Read More

Chinese state media says an initial group of nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in July's deadly ethnic rioting in the country's far west. Read More

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il _ known for shunning air travel _ has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday. Read More

Iran still wants talks with world powers over fuel supplies to a Tehran nuclear reactor _ despite the country's apparent rejection of a U.N. plan to curb Iran's enriched uranium stockpile. Read More

The head of Iraq's electoral commission is proposing national elections be held on Jan. 21, five days after the scheduled date. Read More

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy began talks Monday with North Korea on establishing diplomatic relations and the international standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear programs. Read More

China executes first group of 9 Uighurs over July ethnic riots in country's far west. Read More

Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday. Read More

The Berlin Wall stood for nearly three decades, the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of communism across eastern Europe. Read More

Vitaly Ginzburg, a Nobel-prize winning Russian physicist and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died in Moscow. He was 93. Read More

A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. Read More

Prosecutors want to prevent a top aide to Zimbabwe's prime minister from arguing that evidence against him in a weapons trial was obtained through torture. Read More

As Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, more subdued tributes were held to mark the 71st anniversary of the Nazi's Kristallnacht anti-Semitic pogrom. Read More

Prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a man who has admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world. Read More

With prayers, music and pomp, Germany on Monday remembered the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall fell, sending East Germans flooding west and setting in motion events that soon led to the country's reunification. Read More

Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador, part of a wave of flooding and landslides that has killed at least 124 people in this Central American country. Read More

Two American pilots were killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq while a Marine died of noncombat related injuries in a separate incident, the U.S. military said Monday. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton congratulated Germans on the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at a meeting Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Read More