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A strike may be in the offing at General Motors. Picketing began outside the Detroit headquarters Monday morning after marathon talks failed to produce agreement on a contract by a pre-arranged deadline.

Soldiers in Myanmar try to crush dissent by breaking up street gatherings of activists, occupying key Buddhist monasteries and cutting public Internet access, raising concerns of a wider crackdown after at least 10 people were killed this week.

President Bush invites 15 countries to the White House to talk about ways to slow global warming. But he has been criticized for moving too slowly to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There's skepticism that the meeting will bring real progress.

US military spokesmen acknowledge Iraqi insurgents have escalated attacks over the past week or so, since the beginning of Ramadan. The Ramadan offensive has been a hallmark of the insurgency.

North and South Korea make a historic pledge to move toward a formal peace treaty to replace a cease-fire that has been in place since 1953, when the two sides halted hostilities in a bitter three-year conflict.

The Marine Corps' highest-ranking officer position fell vacant on Monday thanks to a move from Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., who continues to block nominations to protest a Pentagon abortion policy.

Since 2002, a nonprofit group has received 976 reports of sexual assault from military women serving in the area that includes Iraq and Afghanistan. That number is growing. Meanwhile, little punitive action has been taken against assailants.

Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig said Thursday that he intends to keep his seat until his term ends 15 months from now. A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea to misdemeanor disorderly conduct stemming from his arrest in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

Myanmar's military chief says he's prepared to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi — but with conditions. According to state-run media, the meeting will take place if she stops her "confrontational attitude" and abandons support for international sanctions against the government.

Three scientists will share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work in the fields of "gene targeting" and embryonic stem-cell research. The discoveries, made over the past three decades, laid the groundwork for understanding how genes work.