A suicide bomber on Monday exploded his car next to a U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack broke months of relative calm in the capital with an attack that killed a teenage pedestrian and wounded five security guards on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road. The first suicide attack in Kabul since December knocked one armored SUV across Jalalabad Road, which sees more bombings and rocket attacks than any other area in Kabul.
A methane gas explosion ripped through a Siberian coal mine Monday, killing at least 61 miners among nearly 200 working underground in one of the deadliest mining accidents in Russia in the past decade.
Amid bipartisan calls for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ resignation, the White House said Monday, “We hope he stays.” Gonzales is under fire for the removal of eight U.S. attorneys and the bungled way their firings were explained to Congress.
Waleed bin Attash, a suspected key al-Qaida operative, confessed to plotting the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, according to a Pentagon transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A first-class passenger on a flight from New Delhi to London awoke to find the corpse of a woman who had died in the economy cabin. The corpse was placed in a seat next to him, British Airways said Monday.
The latest jetliner to claim the title of world’s biggest passenger aircraft completed its maiden voyage to America on Monday, flying on football field-length wings and a prayer that the U.S. airline industry will want to buy the double-decker jumbo jet. The four-engine Airbus A380 touched down at Kennedy International Airport at about 12:10 p.m.
Zimbabwe’s foreign minister warned a group of Western diplomats Monday that the government would not hesitate to expel them if they gave support to the opposition. The U.S. ambassador walked out of the meeting, envoys said. Foreign Minister Simearashe Mbengegwi told them that Western embassies had gone too far by offering food and water to opposition activists who were jailed last week.
An Italian journalist who was kidnapped in Afghanistan two weeks ago was released Monday. Daniele Mastrogiacomo said he was moved 15 times during his captivity, forced to walk for miles in the desert, bound by chains and held in places “as small as sheepfolds.”
