AP - Israel's defense minister says a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is unlikely to continue in its current form after it expires at the end of this month.
AP - The man who once served as the international face of Saddam Hussein's regime predicts he'll die in an Iraqi prison, citing his old age and lengthy prison sentence.
AP - The former head of the British Army has accused former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of forcing the military to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan without adequate funding.
AP - The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a cease-fire in a video statement issued on Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for independence.
AP - Militants detonated a car bomb at a Baghdad military headquarters on Sunday and then tried to shoot their way into the building, killing eight people and wounding 29 in a brazen morning attack, Iraqi officials said.
Time.com - Though Beijing's Forbidden City has been open to the public for decades, parts of it remained off-limits. This month a new exhibition of artifacts from behind the gates heads to U.S.
AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Sunday that the roots of radical Islam were far deeper than we think and said Al-Qaeda would have killed 300,000 on September 11, 2001 if they could.
AP - Police arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in south Yemen, the Interior Ministry said Sunday.
