Summary: Three British Muslim men pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiring to cause explosions part of a plan prosecutors say would have involved smuggling liquid bombs onto airliners with the intention of blowing them up midflight
Summary: Middle East envoy Tony Blair is preparing to travel to the Gaza Strip this week in what would be the highestlevel visit by a Western official since Hamas took control a year ago Palestinian and Western officials said
Summary: The extension of maternity leave to 12 from 9 months could be threatening womens careers as employers think twice before hiring or promoting those of childbearing age an equalities watchdog said
Summary: Prime Minster Gordon Brown will come under pressure to produce answers to Britains growing knife culture at his monthly press conference on Monday following a spate of stabbing deaths in the past week
Summary: Teachers should be given greater legal powers to search pupils for drugs cigarettes and alcohol the governments schools behaviour advisor says
Summary: ITV Executive Chairman Michael Grade has been approached by interested parties over the possible sale of BSkyBs stake in the freetoair broadcaster a source familiar with the matter told Reuters
Summary: Lockheed Martin Corps F22 Raptor fighter jet widely considered the worlds most advanced is set to streak through a milestone performance here on Monday for a US warplane that unlike most others remains off limits for export
Summary: Afghanistan opposes US use of its territory for launching a possible attack against neighbouring Iran President Hamid Karzai said in an interview broadcast on Monday
Summary: A Turkish prosecutor indicted 86 people on charges of plotting to overthrow a government accused by militant secularists of leading Turkey by stealth towards Islamic rule
Summary: Israel prepared on Monday for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah by moving four Lebanese guerrillas in its custody to a holding facility ahead of Wednesdays UNmediated exchange
Summary: Protesters marched on the offices of Thailands graftbusting agency on Monday to press for criminal charges against the government for its role in a dispute over an ancient temple on the ThaiCambodian border
Summary: Booming demand for food fuel and wood as the worlds population surges from six to nine billion will put unprecedented and unsustainable demand on the worlds remaining forests two new reports said on Monday
Summary: Beijing has warned drivers that might consider violating Olympic traffic restrictions that they will be caught by a hightech surveillance network but offenders will receive only modest fines local media reported on Monday
Summary: AP - Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.
Summary: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama will be visiting the Palestinian Authority president in the West Bank next week, a Palestinian government official said Monday.
Summary: AFP - The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court sought Monday the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir for alleged warcrimes in strife-torn Darfur.
Summary: AP - South Korea's ruling party on Monday proposed holding parliamentary talks with North Korea, which has spurned all official contact over the shooting death of a southern tourist and rejected Seoul's offer to revive reconciliation efforts.
Summary: AP - U.S. stocks headed for a sharply higher open Monday after the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department outlined steps aimed at shoring up confidence in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Summary: AP - Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox are back on top in the AL East, just as they were at last year's All-Star break. They're hoping this season ends the same way.
Summary: Reuters - A government plan to rescue mortgage
agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was welcomed by one of the
world's biggest holders of dollar assets on Monday but fears
remained about the state of the global financial system.
Summary: Stock futures climbed this morning, lifted by a government plan to bolster ailing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Stocks tumbled last week on fears the U.S. government-sponsored mortgage firms would collapse, but investors appeared soothed by
Summary: Reuters - The International Criminal Court's
(ICC) prosecutor on Monday charged Sudan's president with
genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur in a move
Khartoum warns could set fire to the region.
