Reuters

European stocks reversed some of the previous day's gains but there was some respite for commodities and their related currency and share markets.

China has shown no sign of halting its construction of artificial islands in disputed waters.

Yemen's exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi remains in Saudi Arabia, where he fled in March as the Houthis closed in on his refuge in Aden.

Shafqat Hussain's lawyers said he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to a murder.

There was no Donald Trump but his top issue, illegal immigration, was a dominant theme on Monday for 14 Republican presidential candidates who tested their messages at a New Hampshire forum to start a pivotal week on the campaign trail.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating trades worth billions of dollars that Germany's Deutsche Bank AG made on behalf of its Russian clients, Bloomberg says, citing people familiar with the matter.

A member of a new Syrian force trained by the U.S. military was believed to have been killed in clashes last week with al Qaeda's Syria wing, in what would be the fledgling force's first battlefield casualty, U.S. officials said.

James Holmes, the Colorado movie massacre gunman, could face the death penalty after jurors found Monday that aggravating factors including the cruel nature of his crimes counted for more than mitigating ones such as mental illness.

Experts at the State Department concluded that human trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, things had grown worse, a Reuters special report says.

International athletes appear to be at added risk due to "extreme doping," according to a recent report.

The fall was attributed to the result of unfavorable economic developments following the referendum on the cash-for-reform deal.

North Korea espouses freedom of religion but effectively bans it.

Stock markets across the region declined thanks to a deepening selloff in commodities and concerns over slowing growth in China.

Britain's Sunday Times newspaper and Germany's ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret data from the global athletics governing body, the IAAF.

Spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau said in an emailed statement that 101 of the those freed were children, 67 were women and the rest were men.

Veracruz is one of Mexico's most dangerous states for journalists, with 17 slain since 2000, according to a journalism advocacy group.

Friday's torching of a Palestinian home killed a toddler and seriously injured his parents and brother, causing an outcry abroad.

The Turkish military on Sunday also denied accusations of having killed civilians in Friday's bombardment on Zargala in Iraq's Kurdistan region, which had drawn protest the region's President Massoud Barzani.

The Rocky Fire in Lake County north of San Francisco has grown in size by about 20,000 acres (8,094 hectares) since Saturday, according to Cal Fire, a state website for fire information.

It was the second time the verdict in the internationally sensitive case has been postponed, this time to Aug. 29.

Harper, 56, says only he can be trusted to manage an economy that is struggling to cope with the after-effects of a global economic slowdown and a plunge in the price of oil, a major Canadian export.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi said she is confident if, as expected, Republicans pass a "resolution of disapproval" to try to sink the deal, a promised veto of that measure by President Barack Obama would be sustained.

Kerry also said he was "absolutely convinced" all countries in the Middle East would be safer as a result of a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran agreed last month.

A citizen used the officer's radio to report the shooting, police said.

The Mediterranean has become the world's most deadly barrier for migrants, with 3,500 believed to have died at sea last year and almost 2,000 so far this year.

Angela Merkel's handling of the Greece crisis, in which she worked tirelessly as Berlin negotiated the blueprint of a deal with Athens, secured her support.

Nine people were struck by gunfire and four others suffered cuts and scrapes in the early-morning shooting, according to the New York Police Department.

The revised Clean Power Plan will seek to slash carbon emissions from the power sector 32 percent from 2005 levels in 2030, a 9 percent increase over a previous proposal.

Despite U.S. lawmakers' concerns that Egypt is lagging on democratic reforms, Egypt remains one of Washington's closest security allies in the region.