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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers overseeing antitrust matters in the U.S. Senate urged the Bush administration on Monday to investigate a proposal for UPS Inc to fly packages in North America for Deutsche Post express unit DHL.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led tributes on Monday to the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel literature laureate and prominent dissident of the Soviet era, saying his death was a loss for all of Russia.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said a meeting set for Tuesday with the head of the ruling party, Asif Ali Zardari, should be decisive for the future of their fractured four month-old coalition.

LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) - Barack Obama proposed tapping the strategic oil reserve on Monday to help lower gas prices, reversing an earlier stance, and called rival John McCain a tool of big oil companies as rising energy costs took center stage in the U.S. presidential campaign.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's driver performed vital services that enabled "the world's most dangerous terrorist" to launch attacks, a prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations on Monday in the first U.S. war crimes trial at Guantanamo.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Men who have sex with men are 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population, yet are ignored in many countries, an AIDS group said in a study released on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday that China should accept greater responsibilities for its growing economic influence and he chided Beijing for what he called a protectionist stance in global trade talks.

LANSING, Michigan (Reuters) - White House hopeful Barack Obama on Monday called for the sale of 70 million barrels of oil from the U.S. energy stockpile as part of a swap aimed at reining in the high cost of gasoline.

VIENNA (Reuters) - A small amount of plutonium has leaked from an ageing International Atomic Energy Agency laboratory outside Vienna, but radioactive contamination has not reached the environment and no one was injured, the U.N. watchdog said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi political leaders reached a tentative compromise on Monday that may resolve a stalemate over the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and allow local elections to go ahead, the deputy speaker of parliament said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya charged three people on Monday with helping a top al Qaeda operative escape over the weekend, nearly 10 years after two U.S. embassy blasts he is accused of planning put the militant group on the world stage.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday that an accord in stalled global trade talks was only a question of time and that a deal was essential to tackle terrorism and immigration problems.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama called on Monday for swapping some of the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, in a move his campaign said would be aimed at lowering the price of gasoline.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama attacked Republican rival John McCain as a tool of big oil companies in a television ad released on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Paris Hilton's mother -- a John McCain donor -- on Sunday dismissed as a "waste of money" a television ad that used her daughter and Britney Spears to portray Democrat Barack Obama as more celebrity icon than chief executive.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said it was time for Russia to rebuild links with former Cold War ally Cuba, news agencies reported.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's army killed 94 Islamist militants and lost 14 soldiers in fighting in the northwestern Swat valley during the past week, a senior officer said on Monday.

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order on Monday to halt a territorial deal between the government and Muslim separatists, the latest setback for peace in the nation's volatile south.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Land forces commander Ilker Basbug has been appointed head of Turkey's powerful armed forces, a hawkish general who is expected to avoid open confrontation with the Islamist-rooted governing AK Party.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several hundred Indonesian Muslims rallied on Monday in Jakarta and Surabaya, urging the government to disband the Ahmadiyya sect which many followers of Islam consider heretical.