Police fire on Tibetan protesters; 8 die (AP)

Chinese state media: Major quake kills 4 students (AP)
AP - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck mountainous western China on Monday, toppling a primary school and killing four students, Chinese state media...

Officials: 8 killed, 67 wounded in Baghdad's Sadr City (AP)
AP - A senior government official was assassinated in Baghdad on Tuesday as clashes between Shiite militants and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the...

Congress to hear of alleged Syrian, NKorean nuke cooperation...
AP - Members of Congress will be told this week about intelligence suggesting that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear reactor similar to...

Plane crashes in Congo neighborhood (AP)
AP - A DC-9 plane crashed Tuesday into a residential neighborhood in the eastern Congo town of Goma, a government official said. It was not...

China says firearms found in Tibetan temple (Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese forces found firearms hidden throughout a Tibetan temple in an ethnic Tibetan area of southwestern China which has been the scene...