 | Bombers strike in Mosul, Baghdad
Officials say at least seven people are dead after two suicide car bomb blasts in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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 | Top general: NATO not losing Afghan war, but more troops needed
The top NATO general in Afghanistan says while progress is not as even or as fast as many would like, NATO is not losing the war there.
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 | Somali pirates fend off rescue attempt
Somali forces have tried, but failed, to take back one of the ships held by pirates off Somalia's coast.
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 | Iraq to begin first post-Saddam oil bid round in London
Iraqi oil officials are set to meet in London tomorrow with oil-company representatives for the country's first round of bidding for new contracts since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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 | World Bank meeting on financial mess
The World Bank's policy-setting committee is meeting in Washington about how to deal with the financial crisis.
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 | Pope elevates four people to sainthood
The Roman Catholic Church has four new saints.
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 | Soyuz spacecraft lifts off on space station voyage
A Soyuz spacecraft with one Russian and two Americans, one of them a video game mogul, is en route to the international space station.
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 | Hurricane Norbert weakens, nears Mexico mainland
Hurricane Norbert has weakened to a Category 1 storm after sweeping across Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded homes.
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 | Mexico offers reward in bar massacre investigation
Officials in Mexico are offering a reward of a-half million pesos, about $37,000, for the capture of the gunmen who killed 11 people in a northern city bar.
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 | Twelve killed in Russian earthquake
At least 12 people have died after a strong earthquake struck Chechnya and other parts of Russia's North Caucasus region earlier today.
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