In defiance of U.N.

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.

Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

The unions representing more than 1.3 million workers in South Africa have suspended a three-week old strike that crippled hospital services, closed schools and wreaked havoc on other public services, according to a statement Monday from the groups.

A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq has left at least one Iraqi military officer and five civilians dead and at least 21 people wounded, authorities said Monday.

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed five suspected militants in Pakistan’s tribal region on Monday, intelligence officials tell CNN.

Contradictory reports swirl around an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense, but another casting doubt on it.

A tropical depression in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is creeping toward Mexico and the United States and could bring substantial rainfall, officials said.

A string of bombings and shootings across Baghdad Monday left at least one Iraqi military officer dead and wounded more than a dozen civilians and soldiers, an Interior Ministry official said Monday.

A Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped for five months in Afghanistan and released Saturday says his kidnappers weren’t members of the Taliban, but corrupt Afghan soldiers.