CNN.com Monday, October 29, 2007

Tropical Storm Noel's top winds began weakening this morning, but the heavy rains dumped on Haiti and the Dominican Republic flooded roads and homes as the storm moved westward across the Caribbean Sea.

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Calling allegations of child labor at an Indian factory contracted to make some of its apparel "deeply disturbing," the president of Gap North America says the company has fired the subcontractor responsible for the abuse and will not be selling the garments made there in its stores.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday he will undergo a surgical procedure in the coming months to remove the early stages of a "cancerous tumor" in his prostate.

Six of the seven college students killed in a house fire Sunday morning in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, attended the University of South Carolina, a university official said Sunday. The seventh fatality is believed to be a Clemson University student.

Former Georgia prison inmate Genarlow Wilson says he feels no "negative energy" toward the district attorney who prosecuted him for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was a teenager himself.

Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared victory Sunday night as election returns showed her leading all rivals in her bid to succeed her husband and become the country's first female president.

A Russian serial murderer dubbed the "Chessboard Killer" was given the maximum sentence of life in prison Monday and ordered to undergo psychiatric therapy for a string of at least 48 murders that terrorized Moscow for years.

At least 24 Iraqi police officers and police recruits were killed when a suicide bomber riding on a bicycle exploded at an Iraqi police base in central Baquba Monday morning, an Interior Ministry official said.