AP - Iran pressed ahead Monday with plans that will increase its ability to make nuclear weapons as it formally informed the U.N. nuclear agency of its intention to enrich uranium to higher levels.
AP - Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders Monday, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years.
AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il assured a high-level envoy visiting from Beijing that Pyongyang is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, China's state news agency reported Tuesday.
AP - The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women
AP - A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state power, the man's lawyer said.
Time.com - The fiery President's popularity has been plummeting and his opponents took advantage of the situation by heckling him at a popular baseball series
AFP - Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has warned Britain not to withdraw its fiscal stimulus, saying markets are a "crazy man" that spending cuts will not tame, in an interview published Tuesday.
AP - The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for drugs.
AFP - Violent protests over alleged fraud in Ivory Coast's voter lists have put the west African nation at risk of civil war, the spokesman of the ex-rebel New Forces (FN) warned Monday.
