LONDON (AP) -- World stock markets advanced modestly Monday as investors rode momentum from Friday, when an upbeat U.S. jobs report eased fears that the global economy could slip back into recession....

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) -- Mozambican mobile phone users found Monday they could not send text messages, technology that has been used to call for protests in this impoverished country over increases in food, water and electricity prices....

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices slipped to near $74 a barrel Monday in Asia as traders weighed whether growing Chinese demand can offset weak U.S. fuel consumption amid high unemployment....

LONDON (AP) -- Tony Blair said Monday that he might cancel a planned public appearance in London to promote his new memoir because of potential disruption from protesters....

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. has launched a direct flight from the U.S. to Liberia, becoming the first U.S. carrier to serve the West African nation since the end of more than a decade of civil war....

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's chancellor says a deal to grant the country's nuclear power plants an extra 12 years on average of production is a "revolution of the energy supply" for her country....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is in talks to take a top executive job at Oracle Corp., the database software maker run by his friend Larry Ellison, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions said Sunday....

LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, a former tabloid editor, offered Monday to meet with police who are considering reopening an investigation into claims his newspaper's reporters illegally eavesdropped on scores of politicians and celebrities....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Some years back, investment banker Carter Pilcher stumbled across some really good short movies made by a few talented friends, and the money-making and artistic sides of his brain suddenly clicked....

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch....