AP - Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state.

AP - The difficult job of extracting tons of broken concrete, metal bridge beams and submerged cars from the Mississippi River was moving forward Monday, six days after the Interstate 35W bridge suddenly collapsed.

AP - A suicide bomber slammed his truck into a densely populated residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people, including 19 children, local authorities said.