05/11/2012 10:36
International press at a glance
BBC
US presidential rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are approaching the final day of their election battle in a frantic fight for swing state votes.
The Guardian
More than 100,900 people across Northern Ireland were diagnosed with cancer between 2001 and 2010 and 38,139 people died from the disease. The Detail has been given access to the most recent data on cancer diagnosis and deaths held by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry based at Queen's University in Belfast.
The Telegraph
The Egyptian Coptic Church on Sunday chose a new leader by a blindfolded altar boy picking from a cup the name of a former pharmacist turned priest to become Pope Tawadros II.
BBC
A US Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama's security detail has died in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources have said.
Reuters
China's ruling Communist Party has launched an internal inquiry into allegations made by The New York Times that the family of Premier Wen Jiabao accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches", the South China Morning Post said on Monday.
Sky News
An explosion caused by "terrorists" has hit an area near a hotel used by foreigners in the Syrian capital, state media has reported.
NBC News
Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country's north on Saturday in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor.
BBC
Police in Bolivia have arrested a fourth suspect after an attack on a radio presenter who was set alight by masked men while he was live on air.
CBS
The Tibetan government-in-exile said Sunday that a man died after setting himself on fire in the latest self-immolation protesting Chinese rule.
The Independent
A 31-year-old amputee has made history, becoming the first person to climb 103 floors of one of the world's tallest skyscrapers with a bionic leg.
USA Today
Iran's parliament is planning to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be questioned over the country's plummeting currency, state radio reported Sunday. It will be the second grilling of the increasingly embattled leader in less than a year.