The Somali National Army is working to secure the final sector of the capital city of Mogadishu from al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab, with the support of the African Union Mission to Somalia, according to a AMISON force spokesman.

Efforts to recover oil from a ship carrying nearly a half million gallons of heavy fuel that ran aground after striking a reef off New Zealand are being hampered by high winds and strong swells, officials said Monday.

Two American economists won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for their work studying how changes in government policies or economic shocks affect a nation's economy.