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 handwritten condolence note written by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the grieving mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan caused the government fresh embarrassment on Monday. Read More

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

Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency. 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

Kraft Foods Inc. has made a 9.8 billion pound ($16.4 billion) cash-and-stock offer for British candy maker Cadbury PLC. Read More

Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday. Read More

Kraft announces hostile takeover bid for British candy maker Cadbury Read More

Prosecutors on Monday demanded a life sentence for a man who admitted to fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German court in a case that triggered outrage across the Muslim world. Read More

The judge should not allow a top Zimbabwean prime minister's aide to argue that evidence against him in his weapons case was obtained through torture, prosecutors said at the start of the trial Monday. Read More

A French prosecutor says investigators have found euro9.5 million ($14.25 million) in cash believed stolen from a Lyon branch of France's central bank, a heist that prompted a nationwide search. 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

A British nurse who died 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia will finally be cremated after her body was held for decades in a mortuary. 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 Angela Merkel, Germany's first chancellor from the former communist East. Read More

The Vatican has confirmed that opening its door to married Anglican priests doesn't mean the Roman Catholic church's requirement for celibacy for clergy is changing. Read More

Iraq's electoral commission on Monday submitted a proposal to hold national elections on Jan. 21, five days after the previously scheduled date. 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

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

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