Residents return to N. England homes after flood LONDON (AP) -- Residents of flood-battered northern England are struggling back to work, school and homes after swollen rivers inundated roads and caused several bridges to collapse....French ship Russia wants to buy in St Petersburg ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- A French navy ship of the type that Russia hopes to buy arrived Monday for a visit to St. Petersburg, fueling concern in Georgia and other ex-Soviet nations that it may be used to intimidate its neighbors....Romania's president, rival in runoff election BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romania's centrist president will face a socialist former foreign minister in a Dec. 6 runoff election, partial results showed Monday, in a race key to helping the country emerge from a political and economic crisis....Report: Leaked UK documents detail Iraq war chaos LONDON (AP) -- Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday....Russian cosmonaut Feoktistov dies at 83 MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83....Police: IRA dissidents plant car bomb in Belfast DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday....Life requested for US suspect in Italy murder case PERUGIA, Italy (AP) -- Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game - charges the U.S. woman dismissed as "pure fantasy."...
