Indian police fired on pro-independence protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir Monday, killing four people and wounding 16 others, a senior police officer said.

In defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Iran continues its uranium enrichment activities, according to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency released Monday.

The toll from torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala moved higher today, with disaster officials reporting 44 dead, 56 injured and 16 missing.

The unions representing more than 1.3 million workers in South Africa have suspended a three-week old strike that crippled hospital services, closed schools and wreaked havoc on other public services, according to a statement Monday from the groups.

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.

Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

A string of bombings and shootings in Iraq has left at least one Iraqi military officer and five civilians dead and at least 21 people wounded, authorities said Monday.

Contradictory reports swirl around an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, with one Iranian lawyer saying she had been whipped 99 times for another alleged offense, but another casting doubt on it.

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed five suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region on Monday, intelligence officials tell CNN.

Heavy rain and flooding have prompted the evacuation of hundreds of households in Australia's second-most-populated state, emergency officials said Monday.

At least seven people were killed and 21 others were injured Sunday when suicide bombers struck an Iraqi military base, Iraq's interior ministry said.

The death toll in a mudslide that buried a bus and five cars on a Guatemalan highway rose to 36 today but could reach 100, the nation's emergency services agency said.

A British newspaper said Sunday that a top Pakistani cricket player confirmed its allegations of corruption on the Pakistani national team. Yasir Hameed said he was offered a bribe but turned it down, the paper reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas one-on-one every two weeks to discuss "the agenda for a peace agreement," he said Sunday.

The Basque separatist group ETA released a ceasefire statement Sunday to various media, including the Basque newspaper Gara, which typically publishes information from the group.

Pope Benedict XVI is likely to meet victims of child abuse when he visits the United Kingdom next week, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales indicated Sunday.

UPS has identified two pilots killed in a plane crash in the United Arab Emirates on Friday.

An American aid worker died Saturday from a gunshot wound suffered a day earlier in Lesotho, the Peace Corps said in a statement.

One month ago, the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners far underground. For the next 17 days, their families had no idea whether they were alive or dead.

An Iranian woman who'd already been condemned to death faces another sentence of 99 lashes because of a case of mistaken identity in a photograph, according to foes of the execution.