>SANTA MARIA QUIEGOLANI, Mexico (AP) - Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care...

.BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically...

>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Protesters tried to force their way Thursday into the court hearing of a white teenager charged with a shooting rampage in a black settlement that left four people dead,...

.NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - As Kenyans die by the hundreds in gritty city slums and rolling cornfields in the countryside, their fate rests with two men who appear more intent on the struggle for power than...

>RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants - puncturing a gaping hole in...

.KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia,...

.MIAMI (AP) - Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror...

>BEIJING (AP) - China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate...

;NEW YORK (AP) - On a day meant for celebration in Hollywood, Heath Ledger, one of film's bright young stars, was found dead at age 28, his promising career extinguished just as it was reaching full expression. Hours...