AP - Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy actress as chef Julia Child in Julie Julia, while Mo'Nique earned the supporting-actress honor for her role as a loathsome, abusive welfare mother in Precious.

AP - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.

AFP - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) denied that six of its leaders were killed in a Yemeni air strike last week, according to a statement published by the SITE monitoring group on Monday.

AP - Maybe Rex Ryan already knows the score of the AFC championship game, too.

AP - An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.

AP - An attorney for a man who set off an alarm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport while returning from Haiti says his client just walked through the wrong door.

AP - A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday's Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action.

AFP - Haitians sought comfort in their faith Sunday, flocking to pray in church ruins as the government said 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves since the earthquake disaster.

Reuters - The Afghan parliament prolonged months of political uncertainty on Sunday by shutting for its winter recess without waiting for President Hamid Karzai to fill nearly half of his cabinet.

Reuters - An Italian Jewish leader told Pope Benedict Sunday that his wartime predecessor Pius XII should have spoken out more forcefully against the Holocaust to show solidarity with Jews being led to the ovens of Auschwitz.

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will spend Monday in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel that are likely to focus on efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and renew stalled Middle East peace talks.

AP - At least one suspected U.S. drone fired on a house in Pakistan's volatile tribal region Sunday, killing 20 people in the 11th such attack since militants in the area orchestrated a deadly suicide bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

AFP - The Taliban said Sunday they had kidnapped two Chinese engineers in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai's office said he was set to announce a new plan for forging peace with the Islamist insurgents.

Reuters - Iraqi doctors would be allowed to carry weapons under a law approved by the cabinet on Sunday to help protect physicians subjected to kidnapping, murder and tribal demands for blood money from relatives of dead patients.

Reuters - At least 12 Nigerians on Sunday were killed in clashes in the central city of Jos as tensions reignited between Muslims and Christian gangs, a year after similar fighting killed hundreds of its residents.