JERUSALEM - The Israeli government no longer believes that sanctions can prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.
ARIZONA, USA - To those of you not familiar with Joe Arpaio, he is the Maricopa Arizona county sheriff and he keeps getting elected over and over, here are some of the reasons why.
WESTMINSTER - The UK and other EU governments are planning to press ahead with their efforts to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, despite its rejection in Ireland.
ISRAEL - The Dead Sea is drying up at an increasingly rapid pace, with the water level dropping by 10 centimeters (4 inches) last month and eight (3 inches) the month before, according to Mishmar Hamiflas, a group of area residents fighting for the Dead Sea's right to life.
IRAN - On Monday, Iran and Iraq signed a Memorandum of Understanding on bilateral defence cooperation.
PARIS - French president Nicolas Sarkozy will today fly to Prague for emergency talks on the Lisbon Treaty with the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, with Czech president Vaclav Klaus declaring the treaty dead after the Irish No vote.
BRUSSELS - Europe will this week try and pick up the political pieces following Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, but the relatively high turnout at the ballot box, the wide margin and the jumble of reasons for the No vote mean an exit strategy will be hard to find.
SCOTLAND - Alex Salmond dropped a cultural bombshell yesterday when he claimed that the Stone of Destiny, one of Scotland's most famous relics, was a medieval fake.
CHICAGO - The worst flooding in the U.S. Midwest in 15 years sent fresh shocks to global markets and consumers as corn prices hit record highs on fears of crop losses in the heart of the world's top grain exporter.
BRUSSELS - The European Commission says it wants to loosen the rules that prevent knobbly fruit and vegetables being sold alongside more shapely examples.
WASHINGTON - An international smuggling ring may have secretly shared blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon with Iran, North Korea and other rogue countries, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
SAN FRANCISCO - City worker Eileen Shields usually spends her days answering questions about West Nile Virus, bed bugs and other health concerns, but next week she'll be one of hundreds of volunteers at City Hall helping same-sex couples tie the knot.
ENGLAND - Twenty-three people have died in the past five years after a routine flu jab. Official figures show that a further 123 people given the winter vaccine suffered a suspected reaction so severe they were taken to hospital.
WESTMINSTER - Gordon Brown is privately ready to sacrifice the Lisbon treaty rather than allow the Irish no vote to create a two-tier Europe.
UK - The traditional Latin Mass - effectively banned by Rome for 40 years - is to be reintroduced into every Roman Catholic parish in England and Wales, the senior Vatican cardinal in charge of Latin liturgy said at a press conference in London today.