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  1. FILE - In this May 3, 2006 file photo, John Demjanjuk, right, is questioned during a trial in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. German prosecutors on Monday July 13, 2009, formally charged John Demjanjuk with 27, 900 counts of accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II. The 89-year-old retired auto worker, who was deported from the U.S. in May 2009, and is declared medically fit to stand trial for the alleged crimes at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, but there is not yet a start date for the trial. (AP Photo/Plain Dealer, C.H. Pete Copeland, File)
    Demjanjuk faces 27,900 accessory to murder counts AP - Mon Jul 13, 11:58 AM ET

    MUNICH - The legal saga of John Demjanjuk neared its final chapter as prosecutors set the stage for one of Germany's highest-profile war crime trials in years — formally charging the retired U.S. auto worker Monday with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people at a Nazi death camp.

  2. FILE - In this Wednesday July 8, 2009 image made off KRT footage distributed by APTN, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, arrives at the 15th anniversary of the death of Kim Il-sung, his father and founder of the country, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Seoul's news channel network YTN television reported Monday July 13, 2009 that Kim, 67, was diagnosed with the cancer around the time he was felled by a stroke last summer. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN, File)
    Report: NKorea's Kim has pancreatic cancer AP - Mon Jul 13, 12:05 PM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il is suffering from pancreatic cancer and is not expected to live more than five years, a news report said Monday, the latest speculation to emerge about his health after he reportedly suffered a stroke last year.

  3. In this photo taken on July 7, 2009, Afghan police officers sit in the back of a police truck, as a U.S. Marine is seen in the foreground in Aynak , Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan villagers have complained repeatedly to Marines that the Afghan police force steals from them and beats them. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
    AP IMPACT: Crooked Afghan police challenge Marines AP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

    AYNAK, Afghanistan - Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.

  4. A bulldozer clears the rubble at the former Palestinian central security headquarters and prison, known as the Seraya, in Gaza City, Monday, July 13, 2009, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Dec. 2008. Removing the rubble is one of the first steps on the ground taken by the UN as part of the reconstruction plan for Gaza after the war. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
    Britain revokes 5 arms export licenses to Israel AP - Mon Jul 13, 11:01 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - Britain has revoked several licenses granted to British companies to sell weapons parts to Israel because of concerns over their use in Israel's recent war in the Gaza Strip, British and Israeli officials said Monday.

  5. The Japanese Diet in Tokyo where lawmakers have passed a law ending a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants.(AFP/File)
    Japan ends ban on child organ donations AFP - Mon Jul 13, 12:17 PM ET

    TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's parliament on Monday passed a law ending a ban on child organ donations, paving the way for patients aged under 15 to receive life-saving transplants.

  6. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, July 13, 2009. Charles Taylor has begun his defense against charges he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers. Taylor's lawyer has urged judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone not to let the horrors inflicted by rebels during the country's civil war cloud their judgment about Taylor's involvement in the crimes. Taylor is charged with 11 crimes including murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, using child soldiers and spreading terror. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)
    Liberia's Taylor to claim he was working for peace AP - 23 minutes ago

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will take the stand to assert that he was trying to bring peace to Sierra Leone with his actions during a savage civil war that left hundreds of thousands dead or mutilated, his attorney said Monday.

  7. A South Korean soldier on patrol in Chulwon, along the border with North Korea. The South Korean cable news channel YTN has reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has cancer and may not live more than five years.(AFP/File/Won Dai-Yeon)
    North Korea leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: report Reuters - Mon Jul 13, 10:54 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

  8. Filipinos boys are carried away as waves churned up by a passing storm smash a seawall at a park in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines, Thursday, June 25, 2009. Tropical storm Nangka cut across the northern Philippines, leaving at least eight killed and 11 missing amid widespread flooding, officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
    Carlos weakens to tropical storm over the Pacific AP - Sun Jul 12, 11:18 PM ET

    MEXICO CITY - Hours after being downgraded from a hurricane, Tropical Storm Carlos weakened further Sunday night as it headed west over the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

  9. Baby who lost mother to swine flu dies in Spain AP - Mon Jul 13, 12:42 PM ET

    MADRID - A glaring medical error claimed the life of a baby born prematurely to a woman who was the first person in Spain to die of swine flu, a hospital official said Monday.

  10. Afghan President Hamid Karzai (2nd from left) cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremony of the highway between Kandahar and Herat in Kandahar on July 13. Karzai flew Monday into the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on his first trip outside Kabul since campaigning began for the August presidential elections.(AFP/Hamed Zalmy)
    Karzai promises Taliban talks if re-elected AFP - Mon Jul 13, 11:30 AM ET

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai flew Monday into the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on his first trip outside Kabul since campaigning began for the August presidential elections.

  11. A Uighur woman walks past security force officers standing guard in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Monday, July 13, 2009. More roads reopened and shops unlocked their doors in Urumqi on Monday, but sporadic incidents reflected the underlying tensions in the city in western China where 184 people died in recent ethnic unrest. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
    China officials: Police kill 2 Uighur men, wound 1 AP - 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

    URUMQI, China - Police fatally shot two Uighur men and wounded a third Monday in western China, where violence has persisted to flare despite the massive numbers of troops sent to restore calm more than a week after deadly ethnic rioting.

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