AFP - At least seven people including six security officials were killed when a powerful roadside bomb ripped through a police van in northwestern Pakistan, police said.

AP - A bomb planted in a police van exploded Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, killing six people and wounding five others, an official said.

Reuters - Close to 10 years after his death, Townes Van Zandt remains revered by other tunesmiths, especially fellow Texans like Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Joe Ely and Norah Jones.

E! Online - Forget about Van Halen or Alice in Chains. The latest act auditioning singers on CBS' Rock Star technically doesn't even exist yet. And that's the way producers like it.

AFP - Royal Dutch Shell said that it has decided against selling its global Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing and distribution business.

Reuters - Is it possible to speak with the dead? By rounding up enough people who think so, John Edward, James Van Praagh and others have made a handsome living.

AP - A speeding bus crash into a small van carrying a group of U.S. soldiers in northern Honduras, killing two and injuring one, authorities said Thursday.

AP - Jay Leno knows that comedy means sometimes having to say you're sorry.

AP - Wayne Rooney scored two goals in the first 12 minutes Sunday, and Manchester United beat Newcastle 2-0 in the English Premier League.

AP - Van Morrison, "Pay the Devil" (Lost Highway/Universal)

AFP - A Dutch court convicted nine members of the so-called Hofstad group of membership of a terrorist organisation and sentenced them to up to 15 years in prison.

AP - A court convicted nine Muslims on Friday of belonging to a terrorist group because they incited hatred for non-Muslims.

AFP - Robbers have swooped on a security van filled with cash in the north of England, police said, but the amount of money stolen has yet to be determined.

Police investigate a raid on a Securitas cash van by a gang who got away with several hundred thousand pounds.

Reuters - Two people were killed and 12 wounded in an explosion on Thursday in the eastern Turkish city of Van, CNN Turk television quoted the DHA news agency as saying.

The bodies of 18 men have been found strangled with their hands tied behind their backs in western Baghdad, an official with Baghdad Emergency Police tells CNN. Later today, police said as many as 50 workers at a private Iraqi security firm in the capital were seized by men wearing camouflage uniforms.

Reuters - While record companies shuddered at the development, the advent of the CD jukebox and the iPod allowed music fans to build something nearly impossible to find on the radio: a truly eclectic mix of material.

AP - Confidential letters will show that four former managers of Royal Ahold NV, including the global food retailer's former chief executive officer, committed perjury, a prosecutor said on Monday at the start of their trial in one of Europe's largest financial scandals.