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

London's Metropolitan Police said they might reopen an investigation into the alleged hacking of phones of top British politicians and celebrities by a tabloid newspaper, even as they defended their original probe.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has canceled a central London book-signing event for his new autobiography over concerns of the "inevitable hassle" that will be caused by protesters, his office said in a statement Monday.

As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN learns.

Confusion surrounds reports an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery has been whipped for another offense, with one lawyer casting doubt on another's claim.

The White House will put its focus on igniting the economy as President Obama starts the week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to speak at a Labor Day event.

A string of bombings and shootings across Baghdad Monday left at least one Iraqi military officer dead and wounded more than a dozen civilians and soldiers, an Interior Ministry official said Monday.

The Basque separatist group ETA's cease-fire statement is insufficient and is "very far from the minimums" that the Spanish government has laid out, the interior minister says.

Hedging their bets, officials in Chile said they will set up an oil drill as a third option to rescue the 33 miners trapped underground since August 5.

A Japanese freelance journalist who was kidnapped for five months in Afghanistan and released Saturday says his kidnappers weren't members of the Taliban, but corrupt Afghan soldiers.

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

A court in northern Japan found two Greenpeace activists guilty Monday for stealing whale meat, but suspended their sentences, Greenpeace Japan said.

North Korea has decided to return a South Korean fishing boat and its crew, after the North's navy intercepted them in its waters in August, state-run media said Monday.

At least 17 people were killed and 40 wounded in northwest Pakistan Monday -- the latest in a series of suspected suicide attacks in less than a week in the country.