AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Pakistan at the start of a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.

AP – Scientists got an extra day to evaluate whether the giant cork bottling BP’s busted well in the Gulf of Mexico will hold, while officials overseeing the disaster pondered their next step.

AFP – A suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 29 on Sunday in an attack targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen in the Al-Balassim area, west of Baghdad, the defence and interior ministries said.

AP – Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the 93-year-old actress has been rushed to a hospital after falling out of bed and breaking several bones.

Reuters – A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska on Sunday, but no widespread threat of a tsunami was seen, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Reuters – A suicide bomber attacked government-backed Sunni militia on Sunday as they lined up to be paid on Baghdad’s southwestern outskirts, killing at least nine and wounding 29, a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

AFP – The European Union’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton visited Gaza on Sunday to press for the further lifting of Israel’s blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory.

Reuters – Taliban guerrillas staged a series of raids in western Afghanistan Sunday, blowing up the gate of a jail and freeing 23 insurgent prisoners, officials said.

Reuters – President Barack Obama’s top diplomat and defense chief head to Seoul this week to discuss ways to respond to North Korea and deter it from any future attack after the sinking of a South Korean warship.

AP – A.J. Burnett and the New York Yankees ended a difficult week on a sour note.