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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a barrage of artillery shells on Monday, some reportedly landing in South Korean waters, adding to already raised tension on the peninsula.

DETROIT (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co said on Monday it was recalling more than 428,000 vehicles in the United States and Canada because of a defect that could cause the cars to roll away if they are parked incorrectly.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq is arming some of its traffic police in the capital with AK-47 assault rifles after two dozen of the “easy targets” have been killed and wounded recently in militant assaults, authorities said.

ZHOUQU, China (Reuters) – Wails of grief echoed through a northwest Chinese town half-smothered by a landslide two days ago, as relatives washed mud-caked bodies pulled from ruins and the official death toll mounted.

KABUL (Reuters) – An international Christian aid group denied on Sunday Taliban accusations that its team of foreign medical workers killed in Afghanistan’s remote northeast had been proselytizing.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The female contractor whose sexual harassment accusation against Mark Hurd led to his ouster as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard came forward on Sunday, saying she never intended for Hurd to lose his job.

RIYADH/KUWAIT (Reuters) – BlackBerry maker and Saudi mobile firms are testing three servers to send communications and data through Saudi Arabia before Canada to address Riyadh’s concerns over security, a Saudi official said on Sunday.