AP - Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. Opposition groups put the number of arrests at 3,500, although the government reported half that.

AP - The first strike by Hollywood writers in nearly 20 years got under way Monday with noisy pickets on both coasts — a walkout that will disrupt everything from late-night talk shows to soap operas.

AP - After a week and a half of intense and unprecedented work, the astronauts aboard shuttle Discovery undocked from the international space station on Monday to begin their two-day journey home.