-Foreign ministers from five countries with Arctic coastal waters are gathering in Greenland to discuss territorial claims to the region. The talks are aimed at blocking a scramble for reserves of oil and gas.
-In response to inquiries from grieving relatives, Chinese officials announced Monday that parents whose only child was killed in the May 12 earthquake would be exempt from the country’s one-child policy.
-"The Class," a French film about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Laurent Cantet, the film uses real students and teachers to chronicle a year in their lives.
-One day after the spacecraft Phoenix landed on Mars, scientists prepared Monday to start their three-month search for signs that life-giving water and chemicals were once abundant on the planet long, long ago.
