Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday that he found a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to be "quite nice" and that people there would rather stay or return home to Syria than come to the United States.
Around 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many of them foreigners, trapped in the building.
A married lesbian couple in Utah are reported to be readying a legal challenge to a judge's decision ordering them to relinquish custody of a foster child because of their sexual orientation.
A judge on Tuesday denied a request for a new trial and prepared to decide whether a white supremacist convicted of shooting three people to death at two Jewish centers in Kansas last year should be sentenced to death.
Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the leak of sensitive Vatican documents as a deplorable crime but said it would not distract him from forging ahead with reforms at the Holy See.