• Winning bureaucratic sob-story: 7 months, tears can't fix birth certificate typo in Mexico

• Moroccan terrorist who escaped to Algeria in prison break caught, sent back home

• Guantanamo hunger strike grows to 30 prisoners, highest in months; US cites anniversary

• Darfur rebel group accuses government forces of bombing northern Darfur

• Albanian rights group takes government to court seeking details on alleged CIA kidnapping

• Algerians donate blood for Palestinians injured in Gaza amid fears of spillover violence

• Chunk of New Zealand glacier falls, kills 2 Australian brothers on vacation

• Panda bites third tourist in 2 years at Beijing zoo; jaws had to be pried open with tools

• Out of maternity ward and into Cabinet meeting, French justice minister defies conventions

• Officials: says talks on alternate supply routes to Afghanistan in advanced stage

• Thai police apprehend Texas man wanted in US on child sex abuse charges

• Iran's top leader bans volunteers from carrying out suicide bombings against Israel

• Congo rebel faction denounces Nkunda as leader; his spokesman says dissidents to be punished

• US ambassador says talks being held with Britain over resettling Guantanamo Bay detainees

• Turkish military chief in urgent talks over officers' alleged links to coup plot

• Dutch skaters warned they are on thin ice crossing train tracks

• AP Analysis: Rockets from Lebanon raise fears Israel will have to fight on 2nd front

• South Africans express shame at their government's refusal to isolate Zimbabwe's Mugabe

• 9 men convicted of homosexual acts, sentenced to 8 years in jail in Senegal

• Newspaper editor critical of Sri Lankan government shot and killed by gunmen on motorcycle

• Malaysia lifts ban on Catholic paper's Malay edition, but bars it from using word 'Allah'

• Unkind cut: Pa. man guilty of ripping neighbor's door open with chain saw over parking dispute

• Arab nations, West agree on UN resolution calling for cease-fire between Hamas, Israeli forces

• Italian climber, Argentine guide die on highest peak in the Americas

• NY husband demands estranged wife give him $1.5 million in lieu of kidney he donated to her

• Catholic officials in Las Vegas shift focus to schools given slower growth

• Saddle Up! Cowboy churches stage rodeos, baptisms in horse troughs, to draw newcomers

• US commander to lead new international naval mission to battle Somali pirates

• Japanese, Dutch aid workers held in Somalia are released, aid group says

• Report: Princess Beatrice's BMW stolen from London street after keys left in car

• Analysis: Russia seems more interested in cash than politics in gas war with Ukraine

• Canadian polygamist leader calls charges against him religious persecution

• Colombian drug baron shot dead in Spanish hospital

• Gaza war claims 257 children, leaves many more injured or psychologically scarred

• How many scorpions? London Zoo conducts its annual critter count

• Chinese democracy activist who tried to start opposition party sentenced to 6 years in jail

• 6.1 magnitude earthquake jolts Costa Rica; 1 child killed

• Neuhaus, conservative Catholic intellectual, advocate for religion in public life, dead at 72

• Lebanese prime minister condemns rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli retaliation

• Man accused of causing flats by tossing roofing nails into driveways of people he didn't like

• Gaston Lenotre, famous pastry chef, dies at his home in southern France

• RI boys accused of stealing a car in order to make it to school on time

• Hungary: Police detain injured security guard as main suspect in killings at Budapest school

• Jackie the wily pooch leads workers at the Mets' new stadium on wild chase

• Mont. district: School bus driver made liquor-store run, asked student to hide booze from cops

• US rabbi spearheads care package campaign for Israeli troops

• Police say rockets fired into northern Israel from Lebanon

• China officials urge expanded free schooling to stem Islamic terror threat in far west

• US releases $99 million as part of aid package for Mexico's fight against drug cartels

• Venezuelan leader hopes next US government does more to stop Gaza conflict

• Think pink: Galapagos' rosy lizard declared new species after 5 million years

• West Bank Palestinians feel as if warring Gaza has become another country

• After days of Israeli shelling, AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble

• Australia to allow anti-whaling ship to refuel in Tasmania despite objections from Japan

• Pakistan fires national security adviser amid India terror tensions

• Alaska man arrested for allegedly urinating on bouncer's leg at a bar

• Police say woman accused of shoplifting and drug charges faked birth pains during arrest

• Police say Memphis woman lobbed flaming bottles of gasoline onto neighbor's house

• Angry smoker accused of burning a 'no smoking' sign at Oregon nightclub

• Stuck on you: Mexico attacks sidewalk chewing gum _ and (gulp!) tells citizens to swallow it

• AP Interview: Marine general says Shiite-led government fails to meet needs of Anbar Sunnis

• Despite Bush confidence, US-Iraqi security pact could fall to new president to negotiate terms

• Lebanon's leaders call for unity after bomb kills politician who helped reconcile rival groups

• Powerful earthquake shakes northeastern Indonesia, briefly triggering tsunami alert

• New Al-Qaida tape accuses Iran of cooperating with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan

• Petraeus Says No New Buildup for Iraq

• Iraqi Spokesman Kidnapped in Baghdad

• NKorea Wants Aid Before Nuclear Report

• Israelis, Palestinians, Set New Talks

• Two Europeans Win Nobel Prize in Physics

• Ukraine's Deja Vu Elections

• 1 Killed in Gaza Shooting

• Al-Qaida's No. 2 Calls Bush an Alcoholic

• Deal Reached in Fla. Prison Death Case

• Distraction Blamed in Japan Train Crash

• A Look at North Korean Nuke Capabilities

• Interpol Requests Intelligence

• Hamas Win Unsettles Peace Process

• A Look at Midhat Mursi Al-Sayid Umar

• Fighting Terror Tops Jordan Premier Agenda

• Wilma Limits Trick-Or-Treating in Fla.

• Arafat's Death Remains a Mystery

• Late Saudi King Fahd Modernized Kingdom

• G-8 Leaders Unveil $50B in African Aid

• Bin Laden Relative to Pay for His Defense

• Windsor Castle to Host Charles' Wedding

• Diana's Specter Looms Over Royal Wedding

• Guest List for Prince Charles' Wedding

• 29 Skeletons Recovered From Tsunami Site

• Georgia's Parliament Approves New PM

• N. Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development

• Foreigners Killed, Missing From Tsunami

• Excerpts From Rice's Speech in Paris

• Israeli-Palestinian Relations, Chronology

• Canada Lawmakers Craft Gay-Marriage Bill

• World Leaders Mark Auschwitz Liberation

• Auschwitz Survivors Fight to Be Remembered

• Deaths Reported After Quake and Tsunami

• Spacecraft Landed in Mud on Saturn Moon

• U.S. Announces Tsunami Warning System Plan