TIJUANA, Mexico The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said. (More)

BEIJING China dismissed criticisms by the European Union over the execution of a Chinese medical researcher and businessman accused of spying for Taiwan, saying Monday that he received a fair trial. (More)

ST. MARC, Haiti A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march. (More)

LONDON Consider how a city looks to a terrorist seeking targets. There's the airport - inviting, but heavily secured. There's the U.S. Embassy, perimeter guarded by crack local forces and Marines. And there's the plush international hotel, open to anyone with a decent outfit and money for a cup of coffee. (More)

CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez asked supporters Sunday to petition for a constitutional amendment that would let him seek indefinite re-election and buy more time to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. (More)

CARACAS, Venezuela Colombia recalled its top diplomat in Venezuela's second largest city on Sunday after President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the official for allegedly expressing support for his political opponents. (More)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan has warned that it will divert troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida on its western border with Afghanistan to its eastern frontier with India, as tensions over the terror attacks in Mumbai push India and Pakistan towards military confrontation. (More)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas police prevented Muslim pilgrims from leaving Gaza Sunday for the annual Islamic pilgrimage because of internal Palestinian squabbling, drawing rare rebukes from Arab countries. (More)

SAO PAULO, Brazil Brazil's president asked God to halt the devastating rains that have killed at least 116 people in a southern state and offered new plans on Monday to help tens of thousands of people rebuild ruined homes and businesses. (More)

MEXICO CITY President Felipe Calderon pledged Sunday to clean up corruption within his administration and vowed that his government would never negotiate with drug lords. (More)

KHARTOUM, Sudan The U.N. humanitarian chief on Sunday criticized attacks on aid workers in Darfur and called on both the Sudanese government and rebel groups to do their part to stop them. (More)

RAMALLAH, West Bank Muslims from the Middle East to Britain and Austria condemned Sunday the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion. (More)

BAGHDAD United Nations and Iraqi officials on Sunday revealed a plan to make Iraq's January elections more transparent and fair. The elections are expected to be heated races for control of the nation's provincial governments. (More)

MUMBAI, India India demanded Monday that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks, and Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation. (More)

BAGHDAD An American journalist for National Public Radio and three Iraqi colleagues escaped injury Sunday when a bomb attached to their car exploded as it was parked along a street in west Baghdad. (More)

BUCHAREST, Romania Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 90 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a coalition. (More)

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JOS, Nigeria After two days of mob violence, an uneasy calm returned Sunday to this central Nigerian town. Women with plastic buckets ventured out in search of water and many of the dead were buried. (More)

MOSCOW A few hundred people have demonstrated in the Russian capital to protest an attack on a crusading journalist. (More)

ROME An Egyptian-born writer who renounced Islam and was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he has formed a political party that would enter candidates in next year's EU elections. (More)

MOSCOW A Russian cosmonaut used a joystick to guide a modernized cargo ship to the international space station Sunday after problems with an automated system prompted a last-minute switch to a manual docking. (More)

MADRID, Spain Spain will investigate whether a previous government allowed Spanish territory to be used to transport captured terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. (More)

YANGON, Myanmar A court in military-controlled Myanmar has imprisoned two journalists for seven years each for undermining the country's ruling generals after being caught with a U.N. human rights report. (More)

BANGKOK, Thailand Protesters trying to force the prime minister's resignation brought in thousands of reinforcements to occupy Bangkok's two besieged airports Monday, extending the political paralysis that has stranded 300,000 travelers. (More)

ATHENS, Greece This month, the movie camera collection of retired postman Dimitris Pistiolas made it into the Guinness World Records - for the eighth time. (More)