>GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemalan legislators approved a new law Tuesday to tighten adoptions, while allowing pending adoptions - mostly to U.S. couples - to go through without meeting the stricter...

>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Cristina Fernandez was sworn in Monday as Argentina's first elected female president, completing a rare husband-wife transfer of power that the nation hopes will ensure...

.TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's president pledged Monday he will not declare formal independence for the self-ruled island before his term ends, but he added that a contentious referendum on U.N. membership...

.LONDON (AP) - The newest member of Led Zeppelin was given the honor of kicking off the band's reunion Monday night, pounding out the beat before the surviving founders joined in on a near-perfect "Good...

.CERRO GRANDE PEAK, N.M. (AP) - Wildland firefighters come here to the Southwest Fire Use Training Academy to learn not how to stop fires but how to start them, using prescribed burns to clean out overgrown...

>BAGHDAD (AP) - The worshippers were searched at the door and snipers stood guard on the roof, but Sunday's Mass was a joyful one for more than 200 Iraqis who packed a church in eastern Baghdad to see...