Labour MPs demand the police investigation into alleged phone-hacking by News of the World reporters is reopened, at an urgent Commons session. 

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. 

Severe disruption is expected on London Underground as the first workers begin a 24-hour strike. 

Metropolitan police in London, England, appealed Monday for further information about last month's death of a man who worked for a British intelligence agency and whose naked body was found in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathroom. 

A tropical depression in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is creeping toward Mexico and the United States and could bring substantial rainfall, officials said.