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CAIRO - At least 51 people were killed on Monday when demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt's elected Islamist president said the army opened fire during morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mohamed Mursi is believed held.
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SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL - The pilot of the Asiana plane that crashed at San Francisco International Airport was still in training for the Boeing 777 when he attempted to land the aircraft under supervision on Saturday, the South Korean airline said.
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BEIRUT - Syrian troops fought with rebels in Homs on Monday in a battle seen as crucial to the government's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held areas and establish links between the capital and President Bashar al-Assad's coastal strongholds.
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BRUSSELS - With fresh promises from Greece to redouble its reform efforts to keep international financial aid flowing, euro zone finance ministers will decide on Monday if Athens gets the cash it needs all at once or by drip feed.
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ISTANBUL - Police closed an Istanbul Park at the heart of last month's fierce anti-government protests shortly before a new protest rally against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to take place.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LIGHTNING, Afghanistan - Insurgents have stepped up operations in Afghan border provinces close to Pakistan, one of Afghanistan's top generals said, with militant numbers up on last summer as government forces work to improve security in the volatile east.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico's opposition conservatives were heading for victory in a regional election early on Monday, likely bolstering a fragile national cross-party pact forged to broker economic reforms.
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MIAMI - Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean on Monday on a track that would put it over flood-prone Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, U.S. forecasters said.
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BEIJING - China handed down a suspended death sentence on a former railways minister for corruption on Monday, state media said, a case seen as a test of President Xi Jinping's resolve to crack down on pervasive graft.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a man with a mission: to erase the bitter stain of defeat and attain personal political redemption with a victory in a national election this month.
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JOHANNESBURG - Operations at two Anglo American Platinum mines in South Africa ground to a halt on Monday as 5,600 employees embarked on a wildcat strike, the company said, the latest such action to hit the industry.
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DUBAI - Iran is to assign all citizens an individual email address which the communications minister said on Monday would aid interaction between state authorities and the people.
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