Jewish New Year
Israelis ushered in the Jewish New Year on Monday with festive family dinners and prayers — and a warning from their outgoing prime minister that they’ll have to return virtually all the land captured in 1967 to win peace with the Palestinians and Syrians.
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Chocolate recall
China’s tainted milk scandal, which has led to bans or recalls in 16 countries and raised fresh concerns about the made-in-China label, spread Monday as British candy-maker Cadbury announced a recall of its Chinese-made chocolate.
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Tour group rescue
Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued a tour group that was kidnapped in Egypt and taken on a 10-day dash across the Sahara to the frontier of Chad. The 19 European tourists and Egyptian guides returned to Cairo unharmed Monday.
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Bodies found by school
The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to a Tijuana, Mexico, elementary school Monday morning, an hour before children were scheduled to arrive.
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Major quake
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near New Zealand’s remote and largely uninhabited Kermadec Islands early Tuesday, New Zealand’s GNS Science geological agency said.
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Rain forest woes
The Amazon is being deforested more than twice as fast as last year, Brazilian officials said Monday, acknowledging a sharp reversal after three years of declines in the deforestation rate.
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Doctors with guns
Iraq will allow doctors to carry guns to protect themselves after hundreds have been targeted and killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the government said Monday.
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77,000
Number of cups Monday in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to illustrate how many cups of coffee the average German drinks during his lifetime.
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FROM NEWS SERVICES
