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In L.A. Superior Court on Monday morning, attorneys for clergy sex-abuse victims and for the archdiocese presented a $660 million settlement. Attorneys and advocates for the victims are skeptical of the timing of the settlement as they believe it was timed to prevent the trial that was set to go ahead that day.

About 2,000 mourners gather at a church in the Texas Hill Country to remember Lady Bird Johnson. Earlier, a family spokeswoman says nearly 10,000 visitors streamed past the casket as it lay in repose at the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.

In another day of scattered violence in Iraq, a suicide bomber breached tight security around a Baghdad hotel and blew himself up where Sunni sheiks allied with the U.S. in the fight against al-Qaida were meeting. At least 12 people were killed.

A bombing Tuesday in Pakistan's borderlands is the latest in a string of attacks by militants after the siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque. The scale of the violence has renewed debate about the threat of Islamist extremists to President Pervez Musharraf.

The House is officially on record as opposing President Bush's plan to increase troop strength in Iraq. Friday's vote followed four days of often emotional rhetoric on the House floor.

Lawmakers assailed Army leaders Monday for the conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing at the hospital.

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is set to appear before the World Bank board behind closed doors. This week, the bank is due to give its final decision on whether Wolfowitz should remain as bank president. The question at hand is whether Wolfowitz violated rules by arranging a pay raise for his bank-employed girlfriend.

Once British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced he would be stepping down in June, the ruling Labor Party began the process of finding a successor. But there is little suspense about the process; Finance Minister Gordon Brown is the sole legitimate candidate.

President Bush announced new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday in an effort to bring an end to the genocide in Darfur. The president said Sudan's government has defied the international community in bringing an end to the violence.

Congress has approved emergency legislation containing $100 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The measure passed despite widespread opposition in the Democratic majority. It omits the provision for a U.S. troop withdrawal timeline, which prompted an earlier veto.