¤ An American was charged with raping and murdering A 15-year-old Iraqi woman after killing her parents and young sister while serving as a soldier in Iraq. Three other troops may have been part of the crime in March.

¤ The Bush Administration said that it planned to sell Pakistan up to 36 advanced F-16 fighter jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp. in a weapons package that could be worth more than $5 billion.

¤ A new alliance of Darfur rebel commanders and political parties have attacked a town on the road to the capital Khartoum, declaring a 27-month-old truce dead, rebels and officials said.

¤ Six French former inmates of the US military detention centre in Guantanamo Bay stood trial in a French court, denying accusations of links with a network plotting terrorism attacks.

¤ Mexico's conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory in a bitterly contested election and official returns appeared to show his leftist rival could no longer catch him.

¤ Jordan said Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghd and her children were guests of the royal family and did not engage in any political activities. Iraq on Sunday put Raghd on the 41 " most wanted" list, along with her mother Sajida and top Baathists and al Qaeda leaders. She was accused of using millions stolen by the former Iraqi leader to finance Sunni insurgents.

¤ At least nine people, including three children, have died in flooding caused by heavy rain in northern and eastern Turkey over the past two days, NTV television said.

¤ Monsoon rains flooded homes, submerged rail lines and forced hundreds of thousands of people to wade through muddy streets in India's financial capital.The city's antiquated drainage system is struggling to cope with the downpours, prompting civic workers to use spades and crowbars to open clogged manholes to flush out the rainwater.