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• Mexican boy's eyes gouged out 'to save the world'

  MEXICO CITY (AP) A 5-year-old Mexican boy whose eyes were allegedly gouged out by his mother as part of a drug-fueled ritual "to save the world" is expected to live, but has been left completely blind, health authorities said Friday.

  05/25/2012 4:34 PM

• UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site

  VIENNA (AP) Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles. In a report

  05/25/2012 4:07 PM

• Is China poor? Key question at climate talks

  BONN, Germany (AP) The latest round of U.N. climate talks has failed to resolve how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor. China wants to

  05/25/2012 2:43 PM

• Mexico pres front-runner promises to cut violence

  MEXICO CITY (AP) Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug

  05/25/2012 2:42 PM

• Brazil's leader vetoes portions of new forest law

  SAO PAULO (AP) Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff used her line-item veto powers on a congressional bill that weakened the nation's benchmark environmental law protecting the Amazon. Rousseff removed 12 articles from the bill, among them sections environmentalists feared would most

  05/25/2012 2:14 PM

• UN chief heads to Turkey, Saudi Arabia next week

  UNITED NATIONS (AP) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to Turkey and Saudi Arabia next week to tackle issues ranging from the future of Somalia to combatting terrorism and cultural divisions. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Friday that Ban will arrive

  05/25/2012 1:42 PM

• Italian automaker Fiat halts sales to Iran

  MILAN (AP) Italian automaker Fiat SpA, which controls Chrysler, said Friday that it and subsidiaries will immediately halt sales to Iran, following similar moves by other carmakers under pressure to cut ties to Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. The

  05/25/2012 1:39 PM

• Obese UK woman cut out of house

  LONDON (AP) Officials say emergency workers who needed to take an obese teenager from her home to a hospital in Wales had to break through a wall of the residence to get her out and into an ambulance. The rescue

  05/25/2012 1:36 PM

• Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere

  05/25/2012 1:34 PM

• 2 female US Army officers sue to end combat ban

  RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) Two female Army Reserve officers have sued the U.S. Department of Defense and the Army in an effort to reverse military policies banning women from serving in combat roles. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court

  05/25/2012 12:44 PM