Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s voyage to “Shutter Island” has landed them at No. 1 at the weekend box office.
Their creepy crime thriller set at a remote insane asylum opened with $40.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. A Paramount Pictures release, “Shutter Island” is the fourth collaboration for Scorsese and DiCaprio and the best opening yet for both the [...]

Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho was on Monday hit with a three-match ban for insulting officials and making a ‘handcuffs’ gesture during Saturday’s Serie A match against Sampdoria.
The former Chelsea manager was also hit with a 40,000-euro fine by the Italian sporting justice.
And the sanctions didn’t stop there for Inter as Walter Samuel and Ivan Cordoba, both sent off against [...]

 German airline Lufthansa canceled about 800 of its flights Monday after more than 4,000 of its pilots began a four-day walkout.
The airline, Europe’s biggest by sales, said that despite the strike organized by the Cockpit pilots union, it was maintaining many domestic flights and short-haul routes across Europe though many of its long-haul flights to [...]

 Emergency crews are searching for at least four people still missing after mud and rockslides killed 42 people on Portugal’s Madeira island.
Teams with heavy equipment are clearing boulders and earth dislodged by flash floods that swept away people, houses and vehicles on the steep-sloped island.
Locals say the weekend storm was the worst in living memory. [...]

 President Barack Obama will propose giving federal authorities the power to limit rate hikes by health insurance companies — part of a new health care overhaul plan he will unveil Monday in a last-ditch bid to salvage his signature issue.
The proposal would give the federal Health and Human Services Department — in conjunction with state [...]

 Oil prices rose above $80 a barrel Monday in Asia, extending a three-week rally as investors expect the U.S. central bank to keep interest rates near zero to help fuel economic growth, which would boost crude consumption.
Benchmark crude for March delivery was up 45 cents to $80.26 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic [...]

Iraqi authorities say three mortar rounds hit the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of Baghdad, injuring six Iraqis.
A police officer in the nearby Karkh police department said the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital. He said it was not known whether Iraqi or American military personnel were injured in the blasts.
The officer [...]

 A Malaysian consular employee was stabbed to death in a “ferocious attack” outside his Sydney home in a suspected road rage incident, officials said Monday.
The 43-year-old man, who worked as a driver for the Malaysian consul general, was beaten and stabbed in inner-city Leichhardt by two men late on Sunday despite an attempted intervention by [...]

A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 21 civilians, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Monday.
NATO forces confirmed in a statement that its planes fired Sunday on a group of vehicles that it believed contained insurgents who were about to attack its forces, only to discover later that women and children were in [...]

 One of the three aces of the Boston Red Sox isn’t sure they have any.
Josh Beckett doesn’t worry what label you give him, Jon Lester or John Lackey. What matters is the impressive rotation those pitchers lead.
“I don’t even know what ace is? I mean, is that an acronym for something?” Beckett said Sunday. “I’ve [...]