Philippines-Peace-Agreement
Filipino government officials and Muslim rebel leaders signed a landmark peace deal Monday aimed at ending a long-running insurgency in the nation's troubled south.
SPORT-Tennis-Nishikori-Japan-Size
It was a fable made famous by football -- now Japan's rising tennis star Kei Nishikori is doing his best to dismiss the long-held sporting notion that size does matter.
India-malnutrition-kapur
Sister Shakila Shaikh works round the clock. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. She says she only takes one day off each year during the Muslim festival of Ramzan. "I have to be here," she says, showing us her modest two-room health clinic in India. "The women of this village need me." Nurse Shaikh is part of a community of health workers leading the battle against malnutrition in Ahmednagar, a poor district in the western state of Maharashtra.
Cambodia-King-Obit
Former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, who was monarch for more than 60 years until his abdication in 2004, has died in Beijing at the age of 89, China's state-run news service reported early Monday.
U.S.A.
MED-North-Carolina-E--coli-Fair-Death
The number of cases of E. coli stemming from a county fair in North Carolina has grown to 38, including one child who died, the state's department of health said Monday.
Florida-Missing-Student
Human remains discovered last week in Levy County, Florida have been identified as those of missing University of Florida student Christian Aguilar.
Washington-Pirate-Costums-Seized
Authorities have seized more than 1,000 pirate costumes made in China and destined for sale in Washington state because they contained high levels of lead, officials said.
New-York-Police-Beating
A New York police officer is under investigation after a video emerged showing him beating a 21-year-old man at a community center in Brooklyn, police said Monday.
MED-Meningitis-Outbreak
More issues have been reported with drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis, federal officials said Monday.
MED-meningitis-lovelace
The wife of an otherwise healthy 78-year-old circuit court judge in Kentucky says she is heartbroken about his death, which has been blamed on meningitis.
Florida-Giant-Eyeball
It looks like the big blue eyeball found on a Florida beach last week once belonged to a swordfish, a common target of deep-sea anglers in that part of the world, the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Monday.
US-Congressman-Draws-Fire-for-Big-Bang-Theory-Comments
A U.S. congressman is attracting attention and criticism for an online video that shows him blasting evolution and the Big Bang theory as "lies from the pit of hell" in a recent speech at a church event in his home state of Georgia.
US-Emory-Univ-Owns-Up-to-Dental-School
Nearly 60 years after he was told he wasn't good enough to be a dentist, retired orthodontist Art Burns is about to get the apology he deserves. Burns, of Jacksonville, Florida, is one of many Jewish men who were dubbed failures by the now-defunct Emory School of Dentistry in Atlanta between 1948 and 1961. Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then-dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65% of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework -- up to a year of it -- in order to stay.
Next-Big-Stunt
Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space. James Cameron plunged to the ocean's lowest depths. Baumgartner broke the sound barrier. Cameron discovered an "alien world." Call them daredevils, explorers, neither or both. No matter what, their record-breaking solo feats, backed up by teams of specialists, literally raised and lowered the bar for human achievement. So, for others aspiring to chart new terrain, what's next?
POLITICS
Coburn-Government-Waste
The government wasted billions of dollars this year by allowing questionable tax breaks and paying for unnecessary programs even as the economy faltered, a Republican senator charged in a report released Monday.
POL-Debate-Moderator-Campaigns
Campaign lawyers for President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have reportedly expressed concerns that Candy Crowley, CNN's award-winning chief political correspondent, will ask questions in her role as moderator of Tuesday's town hall-style presidential debate.
POL-Poll-Tuesday-Debate
Voters are divided over who will fare better in this week's presidential debate, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Monday, one day before the showdown. According to the survey, 41% of voters say President Barack Obama will do a better job on stage, while 37% say the same about Mitt Romney, a margin that falls within the sampling error.
POL-Romney-September-Fundraising
Mitt Romney's campaign, along with the Republican National Committee, raised $170 million in September, the campaign announced Monday. The number comes more than a week after President Barack Obama's team said they raised a record $181 million for the president's re-election effort.
POL-Debate-Senate-Ohio
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and the Republican seeking to unseat him, State Treasurer Josh Mandel, debated on Monday in Cleveland, sparring over whether the auto bailout and other stimulus measures had helped the Ohio economy.
