Reuters - Peru's disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, wanted there on human rights abuse and corruption charges, was arrested during a surprise visit to Chile, Peru's foreign minister said late on Sunday.

AP - With or without Terrell Owens, the Philadelphia Eagles are losing and in danger of slipping out of the playoff race.

Reuters - A Texas death row prisoner who made a slick escape from jail in Houston on Thursday was captured on Sunday at a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana, too drunk to be interrogated, police said.

AP - Damage from protests across France hit a new peak overnight, as rioters burned 1,408 vehicles during an 11th night of violence, France's national police chief said Monday.

AP - Dick Vermeil would have enjoyed the luxury Lovie Smith had at the end of a tight game. Kansas City couldn't play around with the clock the way the Chicago Bears could, though. So while Smith saw his offense run off more than 4 minutes before kicking a field goal to beat New Orleans 20-17, Vermeil's Chiefs cut it as close as possible before defeating Oakland 27-23 on Sunday.

Reuters - Over 30 police were hurt and more than 800 vehicles burned overnight across France as unrest spread and intensified in the 11th night of violence in poor suburbs that President Jacques Chirac has vowed to defeat.

GRIGNY, France (Reuters) - More than 30 police were hurt and 800 vehicles burned in France's poor suburbs as unrest spread and intensified for an 11th night despite a vow by President Jacques Chirac to defeat it.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 17 insurgents as they swept through a town on the Syrian border and one Marine was killed, the military and reporters in the town said on Monday.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will pursue a free trade agreement on Monday with Panama's President Martin Torrijos at the end of a Latin American trip that has shown resistance in the region to the open-market policies that the United States advocates.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is studying a call by Iran to resume negotiations over the country's nuclear program but still insists it must suspend uranium processing, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger defended four controversial initiatives in his final debate on Sunday before a special election this week.

AP - A convicted double-murderer who spent three days on the run after slipping away from a Houston jail was recaptured some 200 miles away — drunk and talking on a pay phone.

AP - Youths fired at police and hurled flaming Molotov cocktails at churches, schools, cars and a daycare center as violence peaked in an 11th night of unrest in France, sending a "shock wave across the country," the national police chief said Monday.

AP - Rescuers scaled heaps of rubble to listen for survivors trapped in debris left by a tornado that ripped through communities in Indiana and Kentucky, killing 22 people.

AP - After meeting resistance during three days of Latin America trade talks, President Bush will finally get a chance to negotiate Monday with an enthusiastic partner in Panamanian President Martin Torrijos.

AP - Yahoo Inc. and TiVo Inc. are teaming up to blend some of their services, a move that further fades the lines between offices and living rooms, TVs and PCs.

AP - Who won the debate? That was up to each viewer of "The West Wing" to decide. No pundits came on afterward to spin the results.

Los Angeles Times - The bad news came on July 9, 2002: Scientists had abruptly halted a major study of hormone-replacement drugs for menopausal women after finding links to breast cancer and blood clots.

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — For the second time in three tries, President Bush has found a Supreme Court nominee who does not present an easy target for Senate Democrats.

Los Angeles Times - ROSEVILLE, Calif. — For months, the public debate over Proposition 73 was almost eerily quiet.

Los Angeles Times - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his political foes blitzed across California on Sunday, from big cities to small towns, battling over ballot measures that — all agreed — could significantly change Sacramento.

Los Angeles Times - XIANGTAN, China — Dai Aixiu, 41, leans against her doorpost and watches as a dozen chickens and ducks peck at small bugs beside a broken urn in the garbage-littered yard. Her front door is open, and the birds sometimes enter the house, leaving behind droppings and feathers before she shoos them out.

AP - A convicted double-murderer who spent three days on the run after slipping away from a Houston jail was recaptured some 200 miles away — drunk and talking on a pay phone.

AP - A man who was beaten by an attacker while trying to extinguish a trash can fire during riots north of Paris has died of his injuries, becoming the first fatality since urban unrest started 11 days ago, a police official said Monday.

AP - Google Inc. is introducing software Monday designed to make its local search and mapping service easier to navigate on mobile phones, continuing the Internet search engine leader's effort to extend its reach beyond personal computers.

AP - A wealthy Sri Lankan presidential candidate said he will use his personal fortune to buy a cow for every home if he is elected.

Reuters - A man beaten up during violence in a riot-hit suburb north of Paris died of his injuries on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Reuters - A powerful tornado tore through southern Indiana and parts of Kentucky early on Sunday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 200, many caught sleeping when the twister hit, officials said.

Reuters - The world must change its energy habits or struggle with choking fumes, runaway oil demand and a growing dependence on the volatile Middle East for fuel, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.

AP - Rescuers scaled heaps of rubble to listen for survivors trapped in debris left by a tornado that ripped through communities in Indiana and Kentucky, killing 22 people.

AP - Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.

AP - Slicing through slate-gray waters along the shores of Colombia, a Coast Guard vessel slips into a mangrove-fringed inlet, on the hunt for speedboats loaded with two or three tons of cocaine and ready to tear full-tilt to coastlines hundreds of miles away.

AP - Microsoft Corp. has emerged as the front-runner in talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online.

AP - Yahoo Inc. and TiVo Inc. are teaming up to blend some of their services, a move that further fades the lines between offices and living rooms, TVs and PCs.

Reuters - The United States and Panama are close to completing a free trade agreement, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday after talks with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos.

Reuters - A U.S. cruise ship which escaped an attack by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean was declared safe by security officials on Monday following reports an unexploded grenade was on board.

AP - President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror Monday and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture.

AP - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, a major test of the government's wartime powers.

AP - Crews looking for victims of a weekend tornado finished searching the wreckage of a mobile home park and turned their attention Monday to draining a large retention pond where it was feared more bodies would be found.

USATODAY.com - More than two dozen members of Congress have found a creative way to raise some quick hurricane relief money - by raiding their own campaign chests. The contributions have ranged from $500 to $30,000, according to figures compiled by the non-partisan PoliticalMoneyLine.

AP - Tonight's Monday Night Football game is a matchup of division leaders, with the 7-0 Indianapolis Colts taking on the 4-3 New England Patriots.

Reuters - The United States will do what it takes to protect itself but "we do not torture," President Bush said on Monday in response to criticism of reported secret CIA prisons and the handling of terrorism suspects.

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether President George W. Bush has the power to create military tribunals to put Guantanamo prisoners on trial for war crimes, an important test of the administration's policy in the war on terrorism.

Reuters - The United States and Panama are close to completing a free trade agreement, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday after talks with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos.

AP - Crews found the body of another apparent victim from a weekend tornado that leveled a mobile home park as they turned their attention Monday to searching a large retention pond where it was feared more bodies could be found.

AP - Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a 61-year-old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.

AP - The magnitude of suffering caused by the next human flu pandemic will be "incalculable" if the world is unprepared, the chief of the U.N. health agency said Monday as he urged countries to draw up plans for preparations.

AP - The cargo ship had just arrived from South America when U.S. federal agents boarded with sniffer dogs, zeroed in on a 20-foot-long steel oxygen tank and hauled it away. An X-ray showed it contained nearly two tons of cocaine.

Reuters - The U.S. government is aggressively taking action to protect Americans from terrorism but "we do not torture," President Bush said on Monday, responding to criticism of reported secret CIA prisons and the handling of terrorism suspects.

Reuters - No more victims were likely to be found in the remains of a mobile home park shredded by a tornado that killed 22 people in Indiana, rescue workers said on Monday.

Reuters - The Iraqi politician most associated with the discredited prewar intelligence that has the Bush presidency in turmoil visits Washington this week as he maneuvers for advantage before Iraq's December 15 elections.

Reuters - Rioters shot at police and torched more than 1,400 cars in the worst violence since unrest erupted in France's poor suburbs 11 days ago, and a man beaten by a youth became the first fatality on Monday.

AP - France will impose curfews "wherever it is necessary" and call up 1,500 police reservists to stop rioting, the prime minister said Monday, as civil unrest erupted for a 12th night with youths setting fire to an empty bus and attacking police in Toulouse.

AP - The magnitude of suffering caused by the next human flu pandemic will be "incalculable" if the world is unprepared, the chief of the U.N. health agency said Monday as he urged countries to draw up plans for preparations.

AP - Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of Internet file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry, The Associated Press has learned.

AP - The cargo ship had just arrived from South America when U.S. federal agents boarded with sniffer dogs, zeroed in on a 20-foot-long steel oxygen tank and hauled it away. An X-ray showed it contained nearly two tons of cocaine.

AP - Terrell Owens won't return to the Philadelphia Eagles this season, coach Andy Reid said Monday.

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether President George W. Bush has the power to create military tribunals to put Guantanamo prisoners on trial for war crimes, an important test of the administration's policy in the war on terrorism.

Reuters - Five U.S. soldiers in Iraq alleged to have punched and kicked Iraqi detainees have been charged with abusing them, the U.S. military said on Monday.

Reuters - The head of a German anti-death penalty group said on Monday she had nothing to do with the escape from jail of Texas death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities believe they have foiled a major terrorist attack, arresting 15 people on Tuesday during raids in the country's two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran has found the wreckage of two U.S. unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months, Tehran said on Monday, accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers were among at least 15 people killed in a bloody day of suicide car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday as a major offensive against Sunni Arab insurgents took place near Iraq's border with Syria.

EVANSVILLE, Indiana (Reuters) - Shocked survivors of a tornado that killed 23 people in Indiana returned to shattered homes on Monday thankful to be alive but stunned by the destruction.

PARIS (Reuters) - France announced plans on Monday to impose curfews on rundown suburbs hit by violence to try to halt almost two weeks of unrest in which one man has been killed and thousands of cars have been torched.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Members of a German anti-death penalty group were not involved in the escape of a condemned killer one day after they visited him, federal authorities said on Monday.

AP - Police in Australia arrested 15 terror suspects in a string of raids early Tuesday and said they had foiled a major terror attack.

AP - France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."

AP - Crews began draining a pond next to a smashed mobile-home park and found at least one body Monday, bringing the death toll to 22 from a twister that ripped through Indiana and Kentucky.

AP - Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were charged after their arrest at a bar where witnesses told police the women had sex in a restroom.

AP - Lower oil prices and technology news helped stocks rally Monday despite a legal dispute that raised questions about Johnson & Johnson's $25 billion acquisition of Guidant Corp.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been charged with war crimes and will face military trials, bringing to nine the number charged at Guantanamo to date, the Pentagon announced on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five U.S. Army Rangers in Iraq alleged to have punched and kicked Iraqi detainees and hit them with a broomstick have been charged with assault, the military said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China are expected to sign a three-year agreement on Tuesday reining in China's booming clothing and textile shipments to the United States, a congressional aide said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on Monday demanded that the Senate interview key government officials and exercise subpoena power while examining how the Bush administration used prewar Iraq intelligence in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service has threatened to revoke the tax-exempt status of a Los Angeles Episcopal church because a priest implied to parishioners before the 2004 presidential election that Jesus would not have voted for George W. Bush.

AP - Terrell Owens can take his touchdowns and dance somewhere else. The tempestuous star receiver won't return to the Philadelphia Eagles this season — or probably ever — because of "a large number of situations that accumulated over a long period of time," coach Andy Reid said Monday.

AP - Australian authorities arrested 16 terror suspects on Tuesday — including a prominent radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden — and said they had foiled a major terror attack on the country by men committed to "violent jihad."

Reuters - Five foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been charged with war crimes and will face military trials, bringing to nine the number charged at Guantanamo to date, the Pentagon announced on Monday.

Reuters - Australian authorities arrested 17 people on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, raiding homes in Melbourne and Sydney less than a week after parliament passed tougher anti-terror laws.

AP - France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."

AP - Australian authorities arrested 16 terror suspects on Tuesday — including a prominent radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden — and said they had foiled a major terror attack on the country by men committed to "violent jihad."

AP - A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint south of Baghdad and killed four American soldiers Monday, the military said. The U.S. command also announced five soldiers from an elite unit were charged with kicking and punching Iraqi detainees.

AP - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a sexual harassment lawsuit Monday against News Corp.'s Fox News Network on behalf of a female former employee.

AP - A bandit out of Mexican folklore has become a patron saint to many drug dealers in this California city, and some even have altars to the Robin Hood-like character in their homes, authorities say.

AP - Peyton Manning closed in on his first win in the home of the New England Patriots when he threw two touchdown passes to lead the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts to a 31-14 lead after three quarters Monday night.