KFC will start using zero trans fat oil for its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, potato wedges and other menu items. The news preceded the Board of Health's first public hearing Monday on a plan to make New York the first U.S. city to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial trans fats.
The Red Cross released plans for sweeping changes in the way it governs itself -- measures that include slashing its 50-member board by more than half and reducing the influence of presidentially appointed overseers. The overhaul was sparked by criticism of the nonprofit's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Israel plans to expand its military offensive in the Gaza Strip and will decide soon on the what kind of operation it will conduct, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. The military offensive will not lead to an Israeli reoccupation of the coastal area it pulled out of last year, Olmert said.
St. Louis is the most dangerous city in the U.S., according to an annual list compiled by Morgan Quitno Press. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent there from 2004 to last year, when the rate of such crimes rose much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to FBI figures released in June.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a landslide victory giving him a powerful mandate to press his anti-poverty campaign, but corruption scandals dogging his leftist party and thinner support in Congress could mar his second term.
Pakistani troops struck a religious school purportedly being used as an al-Qaida training center, killing 80 people in what appeared to be the country's deadliest-ever attack against suspected militants. The country's top Islamic political leader said American planes were used in the pre-dawn strike against the school and called for nationwide protests.
NATO troops fought a six-hour battle with insurgents in southern Afghanistan Monday in a fire fight that left 55 militants and one NATO soldier dead, the Western alliance said. Twenty militants also were wounded in the fight in the Daychopan district of Zabul province.
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said Monday, as the country launched a bid to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic work together in the fight against global warming. The report stated more extreme weather will occur, displacing up to 200 million people by the middle of the century, if no action is taken.