AP - Sudan's president announced Sunday that visiting American officials would be barred from traveling more than 15 miles from the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum without a special permit.

AP - The threats came in a blizzard around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — a series of videos from al-Qaida's No. 2 warning of more strikes to come.

Reuters - Japan's prime minister-in-waiting Shinzo Abe on Monday chose party heavyweight Hidenao Nakagawa as secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the party's No. 2 post and its de facto campaign manager as the LDP prepares for a critical upper house election next summer, public broadcaster NHK reported.