AFP - China's retail sales, the main indicator of consumer spending in the Asian nation's fast-growing economy, rose 14.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, official data have showed.
AFP - Secret plans to protect Prime Minister Tony Blair from a terrorist attack were left in a hotel in the northern English city of Manchester, police said.
AP - The charter school movement, already bolstered after Hurricane Katrina devastated public schools in and around New Orleans, got another boost Monday: Federal officials announced a $23.9 million grant to create new charter schools in the state.
Reuters - One of two men accused of plotting to make a chemical bomb for an attack in Britain has denied any involvement, his lawyer said on Sunday, as police continued to search his house.
AFP - Britain's top police officer is "entirely safe" in his job for now, despite mounting pressure over his force's handling of the mistaken shooting of a Brazilian man, a government minister said.
AP - Windows were boarded up and the streets on this island in the Gulf of Mexico were desolate as Alberto the first tropical storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season swirled toward Florida early Tuesday with winds below hurricane strength.
AFP - Britain's top police officer Sir Ian Blair could face legal charges over the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man who was mistaken by police for a suicide bomber last year.
Reuters - A senior U.S. official rowed back on Monday from remarks by colleagues that Guantanamo Bay prisoners' suicides were an act of war and a "good PR move, " after the comments were condemned abroad.
AP - A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to visit a man she met on MySpace.com was in seclusion to escape the attention surrounding her travels, an attorney for the girl's family said Monday.
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