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Authorities have said that a student driver in California hit six pedestrians in a crosswalk, sending three of the victims to hospitals, one by airlift.

The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that Farhat Mohammed, 20, was learning to drive on her learner's permit and was with a licensed driver when she made a left turn on a Livermore, Calif., street and struck the six adults Saturday evening.

A 7-year-old who was shot in the head during what authorities said was a suspected murder-suicide in North Carolina was reported in critical condition on Monday.

The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer has reported that Destiny Minter, the only survivor of the shooting in Dallas, N. C., which left four people dead, was being treated at Carolinas Medical Center.

It has been reported that Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, being touted by some as a presidential prospect, says he's not ready to start thinking about the 2012 race.

The Republican governor has had a higher national profile recently, not just because of the BP oil spill looming off Mississippi's coast but also because of his fundraising for other Republican candidates across the country.

He's more concerned about the mid-term elections in November than the 2012 presidential election, Barbour told the Biloxi Sun Herald.

It has been reported that two Republican members of the U. S. Senate indicated Monday they will support financial reform legislation, signaling the bill might pass the Senate this week.

The New York Times has reported that Olympia Snowe of Maine and Scott Brown of Massachusetts said they were prepared to support the final version of the bill. The newspaper also said that the decision by Snowe and Brown to back the measure might give Senate Democrats enough votes to pre-empt a Republican filibuster.

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.