Despite Syria’s failed start to the ceasefire agreement, United Nations peace monitors are set to begin monitoring the country’s volatile situation. Five unarmed observers arrived Sunday, and an estimated two dozen more are on their way to begin their mission Monday. Special envoy Kofi Annan and the Arab League created the peace plan in an attempt to quell the 13-month-long war, which has killed more than 9,000 people.

With 11 Secret Service members pulled from duty in Colombia for having relations with prostitutes, President Obama says he expects the agents to act with the “utmost dignity.” The Secret Service is launching an investigation into the scandal and Obama says he’ll wait to hear the results before passing judgment. Though he says would be angry if the misconduct is confirmed because they represent the U.S. when abroad. Obama called for a "rigorous" and "thoughtful" probe into the events that occurred in Colombia.

After a day of attacks that rippled through Kabul, a series of explosions went off in the center of the city early Monday morning. NATO says that insurgents attacked seven locations in the capital, including the Afghan and American parliament buildings along with the American, German, and Russian embassies. There were no reported injuries in Monday’s attacks and damages were limited. The bombings have been attributed to the Haqqani network, an insurgent group that sometimes aligns with the Taliban, though the Taliban claims responsibility.

Five people—including three children—died in Woodward, Oklahoma, when a tornado struck the Midwest town. That was the only tornado that resulted in fatalities over the weekend, and officials are attributing the low rate to days of warnings. A spokesman for the National Weather Service said they received at least 120 tornado reports this weekend. The Service provided a 24-hour advance warning for many in the region. Storms struck Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

Isn’t Google known for facilitating speedy searches? Federal regulators charged the technology giant with “deliberately” impeding and delaying an investigation into whether Google cars were collecting personal data from wireless networks. In 2010 Google revealed that the cars—which were mapping out streets for Google Maps—were accidentally picking up personal information, and that the company was “mortified” by the mistake. The Federal Communications Commission claims that since then, Google has failed to provide emails to help with the investigation. The charges come with a $25,000 slap on the wrist.

President Obama faced a tough crowd at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia this weekend as the region’s leaders expressed their opposition to the tough restrictions the U.S. imposes on communist Cuba. Cuba’s exclusion from the summit was criticized by countries like Mexico, Colombia, and others who say they should be included. The communist country was ejected from the Organization of American States shortly after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959. Obama rejected the idea of including the Cuban leadership, telling a news conference: “I and the American people will welcome a time when the Cuban people have the freedom to live their lives, choose their leaders, and fully participate in this global economy and international institutions. We haven’t gotten there yet.”

As many as 250 to 300 people are trapped after an explosion rocked a blanket factory in India, causing the entire building to collapse on itself. Authorities reported that a rescue effort was underway after the explosion occurred in Jalandhar, in Northern India. The explosion was said to have taken place in the boiler room of the factory, causing the roof to cave in and the walls to collapse.

Hillary Clinton knows how to let her hair down—scrunchie or no scrunchie. The secretary of state cut loose at a bar in Colombia on Saturday night following meetings for the Summit of the Americas, which was due to wrap up Sunday. Clinton was photographed dancing and sipping beer at Café Havana in Cartagena. Hillary has been quite the 21st-century woman this week after it was revealed she partook in the satirical site, Texts from Hillary, by submitting her own texts.

The pristine year in the press for the Middleton sisters might be over. Duchess Kate’s younger sister, Pippa, was photographed in the passenger seat of a friend's convertible in Paris while the driver pointed a pistol at a photographer who was following the car. According to London paper The Sun, the maximum jail sentence for brandishing a weapon in public is seven years "for all parties involved." The French probably won't view the event mildly, in light of a recent string of killings that swept the city. Pippa was said to have been taken in for questioning, and the incident reportedly sent shock waves through Buckingham Palace.

Actor Ryan O’Neal revealed today that his doctors have detected stage IV cancer in his prostate. “I feel fortunate that it was detected early and according to my extraordinary team of doctors the prognosis is positive for a full recovery,” he said in a statement, along with a warning to get regular check-ups for early detection. O’Neal previously overcame leukemia in the late 1990s, but lost his longtime partner Farrah Fawcett to anal cancer three years ago. His memoir about their life together called Both of Us is released May 1.

Age is no matter when it comes to gray matter. Such seems to be the case with pint-size brainiac Heidi Hankins, a 4-year-old British girl who taught herself to read and has now been admitted to Mensa. The child has an IQ 59 points higher than the average score. Hankins isn’t the youngest person to be admitted to the elite society, however. In 2009 Oscar Wrigley joined with an IQ of 160 at the tender age of 2 1/2.

On Sunday the city that set the Titanic on its fated voyage a century ago plans to remember the lives lost. The ship left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, and sank five days later. The seaside city is set to commemorate the maritime catastrophe with religious services in one of many observances across the country. In Liverpool, where the ship was registered, commemorative events will take place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, and a memorial will be observed at the Stoke-on-Trent home of Capt. Edward Smith. The city of Southampton has more memorials to the lives lost in the sinking of the Titanic than any other place in the world has.

In his first public speech, Kim Jong-un spoke Sunday at a ceremony in the capital of Pyongyang for his deceased grandfather, Kim Il-sung. The North Korean leader, about whom little is known, delivered his speech before tens of thousands and said that the military would continue to be the country’s “first, second, and third” priorities. The speech came days after a missile launch that had kept the world on edge, but ended with the rocket falling to pieces over the Yellow Sea. The leader had not made a public address since assuming power after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, in December.

The search is on as the Coast Guard races to find four people lost after a 38-foot yacht was damaged during a race near San Francisco. Eight people were on the boat, the Low Speed Chase. At least one crew member died, three were rescued, and four more are thought to be missing. The boat ran aground during the 2012 Full Crew Farallones Race Saturday afternoon. The three rescued crew members were picked up by the Coast Guard on the Farallon Islands.

One hundred fifty militants armed with grenades and rockets stormed a prison in Pakistan Sunday, freeing 384 Islamist militants. The attack was on a prison in a tribal region where the Taliban and al Qaeda are known to hold sway. The two-hour attack on the prison included a force of gunmen in cars and pickup trucks and succeeded in freeing “some hard-core militants,” a Pakistani official said. The attacks seem to have targeted barracks where “dangerous insurgents” were quartered.

You know the old joke. A family of Mormons and their Irish setter are on a road trip ... We might get to hear more of Willard Mitt Romney’s signature brand of knee-slapper if he accepts executive producer Lorne Michaels’s offer to appear on Saturday Night Live. The offer was reported by columnist Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, and Romney is reportedly mulling over the idea. While the Republican candidate is known for being more automaton than improviser, SNL’s Jim Downey said there have been some signs that Romney can rouse a lusty bout of applause over something other than the repeal of Obamacare. “He was funny on Letterman, giving the Top Ten list,” Downey told Dowd.

President Obama was focused on the job at hand in Colombia Sunday despite a red-hot scandal that’s embroiled about a dozen Secret Service agents and five military service members. News that agents assigned to the president’s protection detail had been involved in a payment dispute with a Colombian prostitute earlier in the week leaked Friday, and the agents were sent home. “I think it’s been much more of a distraction for the press,” said Press Secretary Jay Carney, who added that Obama’s mind was on work as he attended the Summit of the Americas, a 33-country gathering of heads of state.

Statistics are the smoke and fog in the war on women. Sunday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner struck out against Mitt Romney’s repeated claims that women made up more than 92 percent of jobs lost under President Obama’s watch. “It’s just a political moment,” Geithner said on CBS News’ Face the Nation, arguing that there was more job loss among men at the beginning of the recession and that Obama inherited economic decline that began under the previous White House. Romney’s campaign isn’t budging, though. “The President should stop making excuses for his failures,” spokesperson Andrea Saul said in an email to reporters. “He is entitled to his own spin but not his own facts.”

Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad continued to pound the city of Homs with artillery fire even as an advance team of United Nations monitors is set to arrive in the country. The U.N. Security Council approved the measure Saturday. Activists in the country said they saw spotter planes in the skies over Syria Sunday, but that shelling persisted as soon as the spotters were out of eyeshot. Syria has restricted access into the country for journalists and claims the continuing violence is the work of “terrorists.”

Police were called to the hotel room of a Secret Service agent in Colombia Friday when a prostitute locked herself in an agent's room, refusing to leave the hotel until she was paid. The detail is the latest to be released in the scandal embroiling Secret Service agents in Colombia. Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, said he had learned of the inner happenings of the imbroglio Sunday. Eleven agents, including two supervisors, were sent back to the U.S. after bringing prostitutes back to their hotel in Cartagena prior to the arrival of President Obama.

Singer Robin Gibb is in a coma Sunday after entering a London hospital to be treated for pneumonia. The Bee Gee had been recovering since undergoing treatment for cancer and was said to be in improving health. Gibb was scheduled to attend the premiere of a new classical work April 11, but had to miss the performance because of his worsening condition. The 62-year-old Gibb was treated for colon and liver cancer 18 months ago.

A newly released photograph of Titanic’s wreck suggests human remains may be embedded in the mud where the ship sank. The 2004 photograph shows a coat and boots in the mud at site. Most who have explored the wreck suggested that there are no human remains left, just clothes. But James Delgado, an official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explained that the photo does show remains, and that it is a question of “semantics.” He said, “I as an archaeologist would say those are human remains. Buried in that sediment are very likely forensic remains of that person.”

Tornado funnels darkened skies in the Midwest and plains states Sunday, killing five people in the Oklahoma town of Woodward. There was no warning of the impending disaster, the town’s mayor said. “When this one came in, our sirens weren’t working,” Woodward Mayor Roscoe Hill told reporters. “We didn’t have a very good storm alert.” The town of about 12,000 people was struck by one of a number of tornadoes that appeared in the region over the weekend, damaging an Air Force base and homes and knocking out electricity for thousands.

Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban attacked diplomatic and government targets in the Afghan capital, the most prominent of a series of coordinated strikes across the country. At least 35 people have been killed, according to authorities. Insurgents attacked President Karzai's heavily-guarded palace compound and explosions broke out near the Parliament. Militants also seized a hotel in the city as part of a wave of attacks. The Taliban, who called this the beginning of a new season of strikes, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it had sent suicide bombers into the city.

While some of us are compulsively checking Facebook, watching movies on Netflix, and checking out adorable baby animal photos, one fifth of American adults don’t use the Internet at all. A new study from the Pew Internet Project reports that this demographic doesn’t go online because they don’t see a good reason to, according to the majority response. Many of these who never use the Internet are older, less educated, and in the lower classes, the report revealed.

With temperatures expecting go above the 80-degree mark Monday for the Boston Marathon, organizers are offering a deferment option to the 27,000 registered runners. The heat can be dangerous for such strenuous activity. But this isn't the hottest weather Boston has gotten for the marathon—in 1909 the race was called "The Inferno" for its 97-degree weather, while the 1976 run was held in 100-degree heat and titled "Run for the Hoses," since it ended with the winner being cooled down with garden hoses. Deferment was also offered in 2010, when the volcano in Iceland stopped flights coming in from Europe.

The killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has more to do with problematic gun control than race crimes, actor Bill Cosby told CNN’s State of the Union in an interview Sunday. Cosby said the focus should be on how George Zimmerman obtained a gun and learned how to use it, not on whether or not he’s a racist. Cosby also noted that he too once owned a gun for protection, but decided to give it up.