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  1. A resident walks through strong rain and wind as Tropical Storm Ida approaches, in Gulfport, Mississippi November 9, 2009. A weakened Tropical Storm Ida drenched the U.S. Gulf Coast and oil installations on Monday, shutting down nearly 30 per cent of Gulf energy production. Ida was expected to strike the coast near Mobile, Alabama, early on Tuesday. At one time a Category 2 hurricane, Ida's threat eased as winds dropped to 70 miles per hour (112 km per hour). They were expected to decrease further as the storm approached landfall. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENT DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY)
    Ida makes landfall on U.S. Gulf Coast, hits oil supply Reuters - 29 minutes ago

    MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A weakening Tropical Storm Ida lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with drenching rain and high surf on Tuesday as it moved ashore after shutting down almost 30 percent of Gulf of Mexico energy production.

  2. U.S. International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA ambassador Glyn Davies gestures as he attends a board of governors meeting in Vienna September 7, 2009. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer
    U.S. says can give Iran time to okay nuclear deal Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 9:52 PM ET

    VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions it is after atomic bombs but which has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said Monday.

  3. Joshua Fattal (R), seen here in an undated family photo with his mother Laura Fattal. Iran charged three Americans it captured in July near the border with Iraq with espionage on Monday, prompting Washington to demand the release of what it says are innocent hikers.(AFP/Fattal Family-HO/File)
    Iran charges three US citizens with spying AFP - Mon Nov 9, 3:21 PM ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran charged three Americans it captured in July near the border with Iraq with espionage on Monday, prompting Washington to demand the release of what it says are innocent hikers.

  4. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout
    Fort Hood suspect contacted Islamist: sources Reuters - 40 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and they relayed the information to authorities before the man allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S. officials said on Monday.

  5. Police and rescue workers are seen through a damaged vehicle at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Matni village near Peshawar November 8, 2009. REUTERS/K. Parvez
    Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war Reuters - 9 minutes ago

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.

  6. A German army vehicle is pictured during a patrol near Taloqan, about 75 kilometres from the town of Kunduz in this October 18, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Sabine Siebold
    NATO, Afghans claim to kill 130 Taliban in Kunduz Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 7:35 AM ET

    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area of Afghanistan's north where militant activity has surged.

  7. In El Salvador 91 die in floods caused by hurricane Reuters - Sun Nov 8, 6:32 PM ET

    SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - At least 91 people died and another 60 or more are missing after floods and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by Hurricane Ida, the government said on Sunday.

  8. NASA satellite image shows Hurricane Ida as it churns through the Caribbean on November 7. Ida weakened to a tropical storm on Monday and hurricane watches and warnings were lifted for the US coastline between Louisiana and Florida, US forecasters said.(AFP/NASA/File/Ho)
    Deadly hurricane takes aim at United States AFP - Mon Nov 9, 8:47 AM ET

    MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Ida took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after causing flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.

  9. A North Korean soldier looks south through a pair of binoculars on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, July 8, 2009, on the 15th anniversary of the death of North Korea's founder and the late leader Kim Il-sung. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak
    Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 1:00 AM ET

    SEOUL (Reuters) - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

  10. Abbas al-Bayati (C), a Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament, speaks to the media after voting on an election law at the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad November 8, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
    Iraq election set for January 21 after new law passed Reuters - Mon Nov 9, 10:32 AM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis will vote in a general election on January 21 now that parliament has passed a law needed for a vote to take place, the head of the country's electoral commission said on Monday.

  11. A Catholic worshipper holds a rosary in Prague. The Vatican has eased the way for Anglicans unhappy with the Church of England's ordination of female and homosexual clergy to convert to Catholicism.(AFP/File/Samuel Kubani)
    Vatican outlines rules for Anglicans to convert AFP - Mon Nov 9, 7:18 AM ET

    VATICAN CITY (AFP) - The Vatican on Monday promulgated new rules under which Anglicans -- many of whom are unhappy with the Church of England's moves to embrace female and homosexual clergy -- can join the Catholic fold.

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