LONDON - The expectation elsewhere in Europe is Ireland will re-stage the referendum - probably in the spring, in time to allow the treaty to come into effect before the European Parliament elections in June.
PASADENA, USA - Hundreds of worried IndyMac Bancorp Inc customers descended on the company's branches on Monday to withdraw their money, after regulators seized what was once one of the largest mortgage lenders in the United States.
USA - The U.S. Treasury Department's plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an "unmitigated disaster" and the largest U.S. mortgage lenders are "basically insolvent," according to investor Jim Rogers.
UK - Spanish bank Santander has agreed a deal to buy UK lender Alliance & Leicester (A&L) for about £1.26bn.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - China's modern-day "Scramble for Africa" to buy up the continent's mineral wealth enters a new phase this week.
WASHINGTON - A US government plan to shore up mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped calm markets on Monday but did little to allay fears about the health of the US financial system.
USA - As home prices continue to decline and loan defaults mount, U.S. regulators are bracing for dozens of American banks to fail over the next year.
ENGLAND - More than 20,000 serious knife crimes were committed last year, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. They show that almost 60 people are stabbed or mugged at knife-point every day.
TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would "cut off the hands" of any foreign enemy that attacked the country, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
LONDON - There will be "spectacular casualties" in the airline industry over the next 12 months, billionaire Richard Branson, the owner of Britain's No. 2 long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic, was quoted as saying on Saturday.
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday with a plea for Middle Eastern countries to emulate Europe's model of reconciliation and integration.
GIENGEN AN DER BRENZ, GERMANY - Wafts of golden fluff whirl in the air as Irene Basan wedges a bundle of material onto a spike and gently turns it inside-out, right ear, left ear, then a snout, to reveal a Steiff teddy bear head.
USA - An openly gay US bishop has said the Archbishop of Canterbury is in an "almost untenable" position as he tries to retain unity in the Church.
JERUSALEM - A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
LONDON - Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels - the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy.