BONN - A man who says he is a son of the late Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko has applied for asylum in Germany.
PARIS - Moslem rebels cut the throats of between 33 and more than 50 bus passengers at a fake roadblock near a town in western Algeria. The attack, near Sig town, was the worst single massacre in the Oran region.
ROME - Italy`s Fausto Bertinotti has said his Communist Refoundation party will work with Prime Minister Romano Prodi`s centre-left government on a one-year programme and hoped the partnership would go on longer. Prodi had said on Monday his centre-left coalition was close to reaching a fresh pact with Refoundation.
LOS ANGELES - A California biotech company has said it has found a way to genetically alter immune cells so that they sought out and killed other cells infected with the HIV virus. The company, Cell Genesys Inc, said its findings offered hope of a new treatment that would not just suppress the AIDS virus, but eradicate it altogether.
TOKYO - Japan may break with its main military ally the United States and sign a global treaty banning landmines.
AMRITSAR, India - Britain`s Queen Elizabeth laid a wreath at the site of a British army massacre and was given a rousing welcome by thousands of Sikhs at their holiest shrine.
SEOUL - South Korea`s ruling party has dealt another blow to opposition leader Kim Dae-jung, accusing him of stashing a further 37.8 billion won ($41.3 million) in bank accounts under relatives` names.
MANILA - The Philippine Supreme Court has rejected the latest plea of a citizens` group campaigning for a second term for President Fidel Ramos.
GERLACH, Nev.- A British jet car broke the sound barrier on land for the first time, but narrowly failed to set the first supersonic world land speed record because the runs were 61 minutes apart - one minute more than allowed by international rules
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Five days after Hurricane Pauline whipped through the Mexican resort of Acapulco, rich tourists jet-skied around the bay while poor residents scrabbled for food and water.
CAIRO - The trial of two men accused of killing nine German tourists and their Egyptian bus driver in a bus attack opens in a military court in Cairo.
BILBAO, Spain - Police foiled a grenade attack against the new Guggenheim museum five days before its inauguration by the Spanish king and queen in the northern Basque city of Bilbao, officials said.
DUBAI - Iran staged "a show of strength" during war games in the Gulf on Monday and vowed its forces would "react decisively" to any aggressive acts by a U.S. fleet led by the aircraft carrier Nimitz.
HAVANA - More than 150,000 Cubans have queued in Havana`s vast Revolution Square since Saturday to pay their last respest to leftist guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
BELFAST - Protestant demonstrators yelling "Traitor" jostled and jeered British Prime Minister Tony Blair after his historic handshake with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
ROME - English soccer fans said they were beaten by Italian police after being arrested in Rome at the weekend and alleged that officers forced them to sign written confessions for crimes they had not committed.
RABAT - Five people died in the southern coastal town of Safi after drinking adulterated alcohol, the Moroccan newspaper Liberation reported. Fifteen others were taken to hospital.
