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According to the official reports, Fierce storms in Germany on Monday, including a tornado, left two people dead and several injured.

A 54-year-old woman in a wheelchair was killed in Cologne when she was hit by a truck while seeking shelter under an underpass, The Local has reported. The British Internet news site further said that in Nordhorn, high winds uprooted a tree that struck and killed a 47-year-old woman trying to make it home with her dog.

Military officials revealed on Monday that a Canadian general and an enlisted woman have been charged for their alleged affair.

Canwest News Service has reported that Brig. Gen. Daniel Menard, who led Canadian forces in Afghanistan until May when the affair was revealed, was charged with two counts of "conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, one count of obstructing justice and another count of conduct violating good order and discipline.

It has been reported that Donald Berwick was sworn in on Monday as head of the U. S. agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid amid persistent political squabbling about his appointment.

According to the official reports, President Barack Obama appointed Berwick last week, while the Senate was in recess, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The move averted the need for Senate confirmation hearings on the nomination.

Officials of British oil company BP said on Monday that they have completed the installation of a new sealing cap on the Deep Water Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico.

The company further informed that the move clears the way for testing to begin on Tuesday on the integrity of the well. The tests should show whether a quick end is in sight for the oil gushing from its deep water well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP said on its Web site.

According to the official reports, speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she doesn't think the Republicans will win control of the U. S. House of Representatives this fall.

The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on national television Sunday a GOP takeover was possible. But the powerful California congresswoman said during a visit to her San Francisco district she doesn't see that happening.

It has been reported that the Somali militant group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility on Monday for three bombings that killed at least 74 people in Uganda's capital.

CNN has reported that Ali Mohamoud Rage said at a news conference in Mogadishu, Somalia, "We are behind the attack because we are at war with them."

"And the best of men have promised and they have delivered ... We wage war against the 6,000 collaborators; they have received their response," al-Shabaab's press office said in a statement obtained by CNN.