The wind was relatively calm Monday, despite forecasts of gusts of up to 50 mph, fire information officer Brett Haberstick said. Temperatures, however, were in the mid-90s, and the relative humidity was extremely low at 3 to 5 percent, he said. Other wildfires were burning in warm, arid weather from Wyoming to Arizona to Southern California, where a blaze that prompted the evacuation of at least 150 homes was 30 percent contained Monday.

Across the West:

— In California, nearly 500 personnel have been dispatched to fight the fire east of Campo, in San Diego County. Water-dropping helicopters doused the area Monday, and firefighters braced for temperatures to rise and winds to pick up speed. Still, fire officials expected the blaze to be fully contained Tuesday night.

— In Wyoming, a grass fire destroyed four homes in a small community outside Casper on Sunday, but no one was injured. Another wildfire discovered Sunday grew to about 1,200 acres in the Medicine Bow National Forest amid wind gusts up to 40 mph Monday.

— In Nevada, crews were fighting a 34-square-mile fire north of Ely that has burned a mobile home. The person living there was evacuated, and no injuries have been reported in the fire which is burning steep, rugged terrain on the east side of the Schell Mountain Range, authorities said.

A brush fire destroyed one home and seriously damaged another north of Reno, only a few miles from a separate brush fire.

— In Utah, a 208-acre blaze on the west side of Lake Mountain was fully contained Monday morning, officials said. The fire started Saturday and was human-caused. No structures are threatened.

— In northwest Nebraska, firefighters were attacking a wildfire reported Sunday that has blackened roughly 1,500 to 2,000 acres. No injuries have been reported, and there have been no reports of buildings being burned, authorities said Monday.

The men who were arrested in the Munich house of former Waffen-SS member Charles Jochheim late on October 27, 1972 were armed like soldiers on their way to the front. In one suitcase, police found three Kalashnikov automatic rifles, six magazines, 174 rounds of ammunition, two pistols, a revolver and six Belgian-made hand grenades. The two men who were arrested were also carrying other weapons. Wolfgang Abramowski had weapons hidden in his waistband, while his accomplice, Willi Pohl, was carrying two pistols and a hand grenade, according to a Munich police investigative report.

A fellow member of a right-wing extremist splinter group calling itself the "National Socialist Fighting Group for a Greater Germany" had tipped off the police about Pohl and Abramowski. The two men allegedly planned to use the weapons to free a fellow extremist who was in prison, but investigators soon questioned whether this story was true. Among the documents Abramowski and Pohl were carrying was a threatening letter to a Munich judge tasked with clearing up one of the most shocking crimes in postwar German history: the massacre at the Munich Summer Olympics.

On September 5, 1972, Palestinian militants with a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist group called "Black September" took nine Israeli athletes hostage and demanded the release of several hundred Palestinians from Israeli prisons. When the police attempted to free the Israelis at the Fürstenfeldbruck military airport, where they were being held in two helicopters, the terrorists murdered all of their hostages. A police officer also died in the firefight. Three of the Palestinians survived, and the judge to whom the letter found in Pohl's and Abramowski's luggage was addressed was in charge of the case against them.

In 1974, the two Germans were merely convicted of illegal possession of firearms. Abramowski was sentenced to eight months and Pohl to 26 months in prison. Only four days after sentencing, Pohl was released and fled to Beirut. There is nothing in the files to explain the reasons behind such leniency.

The euro rose and European stocks were poised to open higher after Sunday's vote and the Athens streets were quiet after New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras pledged to move swiftly to form a government, telling supporters: "There is no time to waste". The once-mighty Socialist PASOK party, now reduced to third place, indicated it would support Samaras but had not yet decided whether to join the government or just offer parliamentary backing.

"The people spoke yesterday and gave a clear mandate to pro-European parties to cooperate and fight the battle to keep the country in the euro," the daily Kathimerini, Greece's biggest daily newspaper, said on Monday. "By tomorrow, the country needs to have a government of the widest possible acceptance with politicians and technocrats. PASOK must support such a government."

In deep recession, crushed under its huge public debt and facing rising social tensions, Greece faces a daunting struggle to restore its battered economy and the new government may face a renewed wave of protests once it takes office.

Central banks across the world are standing ready to shower markets with emergency liquidity. A dust-up in Athens is the excuse they need to launch a fresh blitz of stimulus as the global economy flirts with recession once again. Fed chair Ben Bernanke requires a crisis somewhere to outflank his own hawks and slip another round of quantitative easing (QE) past the Tea Party Congress before the “fiscal cliff” – 4.5 per cent of GDP in tightening – hits the US economy with a sledgehammer this winter.

Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank needs one even more badly to check his own liquidationist reactionaries before they destroy Europe’s post-War order altogether. Any action may already be too late to stop a synchronised slump on both sides of the Atlantic, with China, India, Brazil, and Russia in trouble too. The US has slowed to stall speed. Retail sales have fallen for the last two months. Job growth has dropped from 259,000 in February to 69,000 in May, too low to stop unemployment rising again. Europe’s depression is spreading, the result of a triple-barrelled fiscal, monetary, and regulatory shock – the worst policy errors since 1931.

All key measures of the eurozone money supply are contracting, in breach of the ECB’s “twin pillar” mandate. This is what is killing southern Europe. Contagion from Greece has nothing to do with it. I write before knowing the outcome of Greece’s election. For what it is worth, I doubt that Greece will elect a manipulator who knows he cannot tear up the bail-out Memorandum and keep the euro by holding Europe to ransom.

The Bundesbank’s Jens Weidmann could hardly have been clearer. “We must not allow any country to blackmail us,” he said. Ultimately, Greece will have to leave EMU whoever is elected. No government can carry out an “internal devaluation” for eight years, and nor should it try. But it matters a great deal for Greece how exit is negotiated.

Both governments and business leaders will have to come together to make difficult decisions on each, or the ‘fight for the future of our global economy won’t be won’, Mr Cameron will say. His speech is a clear swipe at France’s new socialist President Francois Hollande and others threatening to backslide on austerity measures. Mr Cameron is attending the G20 summit of leading nations with the Chancellor in Mexico.

It is taking place amid growing concern about the state of the world economy and the impact of the eurozone crisis on the financial markets. A second Greek election yesterday came only a week after Spain said it needed a €100 billion rescue deal for its banks, prompting concern that Italy would be next in line. Mr Cameron, addressing 300 of the world’s most important company bosses gathered in Los Cabos, will highlight five threats that could undermine a stable world economy.

‘First, instability in the eurozone – and the uncertainty and risk of contagion that brings,’ he will say.

‘Second, debt and the muddle-headed thinking that over-indebted governments can spend their way out of the crisis.’

‘Third, the failure to deliver the measures actually needed for sustainable growth: Namely monetary activism in the short term and structural reform to deliver competitiveness in the long term.’

‘Fourth, the risk that faced with growing tensions in the global economy, instead of progressively reforming the imbalances in the world economy, governments will put up protectionist barriers, just like in the 1930s.’

‘And fifth, the failure to follow through with the long-term reforms – particularly banking reforms and sensible financial regulation pioneered by the G20 which leaves us exposed to a repeat of the 2008 crisis all over again.’

‘These five threats are very real, and let’s be clear, in a global economy they threaten us all.’

British businesses are turning against greater integration in Europe and would like to see a “renegotiated” free trade area. In a survey of 7,500 businesses to be released tomorrow, the BCC found that 35 per cent of all exporters believe that Europe should be a free trade area without the Brussels-led social legislation that many feel hamper their business. Just over 20 per cent supported an economic union and just 6 per cent supported being members of the single currency.

“There is a concern about the balance of advantages in the single market,” Mr Longworth said. “Europe is a very important trading area for British business but the eurozone is creating a confidence issue. On balance [British businesses] would like a renegotiated free trade area.” There are growing fears that as the eurozone increases the levels of fiscal integration - a policy advocated by both David Cameron and George Osborne - Britain will have an increasingly difficult relationship with the European Union.

Some leading British businesses believe that once fiscal integration among members of the eurozone happens, the Government will be forced to renegotiate with the European Union or face having to implement damaging policies because of a push from eurozone countries. Mr Longworth pointed out that many businesses were now more interested in creating links with fast growing economies such as Brazil, India and China and that agreements to remove barriers by the World Trade Organisation were helping to support growth.

Live Action released new undercover footage today showing two Planned Parenthood clinics, in Maui and Honolulu, advising undercover investigators on how to procure a sex-selective abortion of her baby girl because she wants a boy instead. Officials with the group say Planned Parenthood claims publicly to condemn sex-selective abortion but continues to provide them to women who request them.

The Planned Parenthood Maui Clinic worker counsels Live Action’s undercover journalist to wait for a late-term abortion to double-check that the baby is actually a girl before killing her. Then, another worker at Planned Parenthood Honolulu makes sure the woman signs up for QUEST, Hawaii’s taxpayer-funded insurance, which will pay for her elective, late-term, sex-selective abortion.

After decades in which Washington has been the region's dominant outside player, deploying its military to guarantee the flow of oil and its diplomatic muscle to advance peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the pro-democracy demonstrations of the Arab Spring appear to have changed the equation.

President Barack Obama's early hopes of brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal have foundered. And US blunders in Iraq, where violence persists nine years after a US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, have also eroded US credibility, Middle East analysts said.

"When questions become ones of life and death, people are less interested in what the United States has to say," said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington."We have had a long relationship with the Egyptian military and when it comes to existential issues, they will listen politely but they strongly believe that they understand both their population and their national interest better than well-meaning Americans," Alterman added.

Thirty-three-year old Liu Yang flies with Commander Jing Haipeng, 46, and fellow flight engineer, Liu Wang, 42. It is China's fourth manned mission and another opportunity to see how far the Asian nation has developed its space technology. It follows on from last year's unmanned Shenzhou-8 outing which completed successful rendezvous and docking manoeuvres at Tiangong. That gave Beijing authorities the confidence to put astronauts on the current flight. After Saturday's lift-off from the Jiuquan spaceport, Shenzhou-9 worked through a series of engine burns to take it higher and closer to the orbiting space lab.

Monday's docking was an automated procedure; computers - not the crew - were in charge of events. A suite of radar, laser and optical sensors aligned Shenzhou with Tiangong. The capsule's thrusters then drove it into the space lab's docking ring. The union happened at an altitude of about 340km (210 miles). Ms Liu operated a handheld video camera to record the moment of docking.

Washington is painting the alleged shipment as being in breach of the Syrian arms embargo, with a view to affecting the ship’s insurance cover.

The MV Alaed is a multipurpose twin-deck cargo vessel operated by Russia’s FEMCO Group. It is allegedly making its way to the conflict zone in Syria via the North Sea after picking up helicopters from the Russian Baltic port of Kaliningrad. The current European Union arms embargo against Syria, imposed in May last year, suggests a ban on the "transfer or export" of arms and any related "brokering" services, including insurance.

The American government is presumably trying to use this legislation to force the vessel's London-based insurer to withdraw its cover. This would make it difficult for the ship to dock legally in ports and could force it to return the cargo to the port of origin. Interestingly, all the media sources refer to “Mil Mi-25” helicopter, suggesting a single source of information. No such model, however, has ever been produced by the Moscow chopper-maker Mil Helicopters.

The party claims to have won 52.5 per cent of votes cast, based on a count of 97.6 per cent of the country’s 13,100 polling stations. Khaled Qazzaz, a Muslim Brotherhood official, said Shafik had 47.5 per cent of the votes counted. "There is no way Shafik can win," Qazzaz said, speaking at the headquarters of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. The party’s website says it will shortly announce "the first statement of the first elected Egyptian president."

Approximately 50 million Egyptians are eligible to vote, but the turnout appears to be lower than in the first round, when 46 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Over 20 million votes have been counted so far, Qazzaz said, with around 10.5 million going to Mursi, compared to 9.5 million for Shafiq.

At the same time, there are numerous accusations of ballot-rigging from the rival candidate’s headquarters, where officials say they do not recognize the results announced by their rivals. "We are expecting the official results from the electoral commission,” Shafiq’s representative told the Egyptian Al-Hayat network.

The Socialist Party (PF) has won 300 seats, surpassing the 289 seats required for total control of the 577-member National Assembly after Sunday's run-off. Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) secured 207 seats. France's far-right National Front has returned to parliament for the first time since 1998, according to AFP reports, but its anti-immigrant and anti-EU leader Marine Le Pen has lost her bid for a seat by a handful of votes.

The outcome of both rounds of France’s parliamentary elections suggests that President Francois Hollande will now be able to implement his tax-and-spend policy with relative ease. But how likely is it that he can achieve economic growth instead of belt-tightening?

The first two blasts occurred within minutes of each other and targeted two churches in the city of Zaria in Kaduna state. A third blast hit a church in the city of Kaduna about half an hour later, said Kaduna State police chief Mohammed Abubakar Jinjiri.

He also said security at the three churches had prevented the suicide bombers from ramming explosive-filled cars into the buildings, which were filled with worshippers and thus would have caused significantly more casualties. It was the latest in a string of Christian-Muslim clashes in the state of Kaduna, which is known for its religious tensions.

Forty-four senators, both Republicans and Democrats, have addressed [Mr] Barack Obama in a letter stating that Iran must immediately take steps to shut down the Fordow facility, freeze the enrichment of uranium above 5 per cent and ship uranium already enriched above 5 per cent out of the country.

“On the other hand, if the sessions in Moscow produce no substantive agreement, we urge you to re-evaluate the utility of further talks at this time and instead focus on significantly increasing the pressure on the Iranian government through sanctions and making clear that a credible military option exists,” the senators stressed. “As you have rightly noted, ‘the window for diplomacy is closing.’ Iran’s leaders must realize that you mean precisely that.”

The third round of the negotiations between Iran and five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany, known as P5+1, is scheduled to start in the Russian capital on Monday. The world powers will try to ease the tensions and secure an agreement to prevent a pre-emptive military strike against Iran by Israel. The negotiations come less than two weeks before Iran faces the imposition of a European oil embargo and American banking sanctions which could severely damage its economy.

The delegation from the Syrian Free Army is meeting with US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford and the State Department’s expert on Syria, Fred Hof, according to a report by debkafile, an Israeli news website, which is considered to have strong ties with the intelligence community.

The Syrian rebels have brought with them two lists for American approval. One is that of targets in Syria they want to attack to hurt President Assad’s government. The second is a list of heavy weapons they need to carry out the attacks, which they want to get from the US, the report says. Debkafile says the Obama administration is very close to giving the green light to shipping off the weapons, most of which have already been purchased by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The US is also close to deciding on the format of its own military operation in Syria, which the site’s source described as “Libya lite” – a small-scale version of the no-fly zone and air strikes carried out by NATO forces in Libya, which resulted in the toppling of its leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Earlier top US military brass told American media that the Pentagon has finalized contingency plans for a possible operation in Syria.