World datelines

Austria

VIENNA — Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who survived the Holocaust and fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution, then won acclaim for his opera "Le Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Monday. He was 83.

Congo

KINSHASA — Congo's president told the U.N. Security Council on Monday he would do his utmost to stop political intimidation and incitement of hatred during campaigning for the country's first national elections in more than four decades, diplomats said.

Costa Rica

SAN JOSE — Searchers in planes and boats scoured Costa Rica's Pacific coast Monday for a Kansas high school student and teacher missing since they disappeared in the ocean over the weekend.

Denmark

COPENHAGEN — Explosive experts safely detonated a 550-pound World War II bomb Monday on a beach in western Denmark, authorities said.

Guinea

CONAKRY — Students infuriated by a postponement of exams protested in Guinea's capital and another city Monday, with some throwing rocks and burning tires. The Red Cross said six people were killed during the demonstrations.

Hungary

BUDAPEST — Some 1,200 people in northeastern Hungary have fallen ill from drinking contaminated water, the director of national epidemic affairs said Monday.

Iraq

BAGHDAD — Guards dragged Saddam Hussein's former intelligence chief out of court Monday for arguing with the judge, fueling defense protests that it is being treated unfairly.

Italy

ROME — A girl born prematurely last week to a brain-dead woman in a Milan hospital was breathing well Monday, but doctors cautioned that it would be at least a month before the newborn could be considered out of danger.

Nepal

KATMANDU — Nepal's new administration on Monday began freeing the last of the country's jailed communist rebels, helping peace talks move forward, government and rebel officials said.

New Zealand