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Mexico police say drug cartel killed No. 2 cop 12 May 08, 23:58 ET AP - A police officer and four other people with suspected ties to a powerful drug cartel have been arrested in the assassination of Mexico's acting federal police chief, authorities said Monday. more Some of the world's deadliest natural disasters 12 May 08, 23:44 ET AP - A look at some of the deadliest natural disasters around the world in the past 40 years: more 37 tourists killed in China quake landslide: report 12 May 08, 23:12 ET AFP - Thirty-seven tourists were killed when their coach was buried in a landslide after a massive earthquake in southwest China while separately officials said they had lost contact with 15 British tourists, state media reported Tuesday. more Nearly 10,000 dead in China quake, fears for many more 12 May 08, 22:05 ET AFP - The death toll from China's worst earthquake in over three decades climbed to nearly 10,000 on Tuesday with many thousands more trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories. more Canada court says U.S. likely paid bounty on suspect 12 May 08, 21:58 ET Reuters - The Canadian Federal Court said on Monday that Pakistan appears to have received a $500,000 bounty from the United States for the capture of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted on charges of working with al Qaeda against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. more China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000 12 May 08, 21:05 ET AP - A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing nearly 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades. more Lawmakers deal fresh blow to Haitian president 12 May 08, 20:45 ET Reuters - Lawmakers rejected President Rene Preval's candidate for prime minister on Monday, undercutting his efforts to establish a stable democracy in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country. more Government avoids rebellion on embryology laws 12 May 08, 20:36 ET AFP - Beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown avoided a major rebellion as legislation to regulate the use of human embryos for research passed its first parliamentary hurdle late Monday. more Fighting in Tripoli, but Lebanon's capital is calm 12 May 08, 20:33 ET AP - Fighting between pro- and anti-government factions jumped to Lebanon's north Monday, but a grim calm hung over the nearly empty streets of Beirut - a capital crippled by roadblocks, suspicion and fear. more Cuban migrants land in Mexico after 17 days at sea 12 May 08, 20:24 ET AP - An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border. more Rocket kills woman after Israel sets conditions for Gaza truce 12 May 08, 19:54 ET AFP - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed an Israeli woman on Monday hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert set conditions for a truce with Palestinian militants in the Hamas-ruled territory. more At least 427 US deaths in Afghanistan, region 12 May 08, 19:38 ET AP - As of Monday, May 12, 2008, at least 427 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 3 at 10 a.m. EDT. more Outgunned Lebanese army no longer seen as neutral 12 May 08, 19:34 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BEIRUT, Lebanon— With the beleaguered Lebanese army looking on, opposition and pro-government militias traded gunfire in northern Lebanon Monday in a continuation of the fighting that's killed at least 50 people and paralyzed most of Beirut. more Haitian lawmakers reject new prime minister 12 May 08, 19:15 ET Reuters - Former Inter-American Development Bank adviser Ericq Pierre was rejected as Haiti's new prime minister on Monday by lawmakers who said he had not given adequate proof he was descended from native-born Haitians. more Putin: art should help strengthen state 12 May 08, 18:16 ET AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist Monday, a ceremony that reflected his continuing political influence even after stepping down as president. more Canada 'concerned' over Russia-Georgia tensions 12 May 08, 18:10 ET AFP - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier on Monday expressed "great concern" over recent events that raised tensions between Georgia and Russia over Moscow-backed separatists. more Darfur rebel leader vows attrition war for Sudan 12 May 08, 18:04 ET AP - Darfur's most-wanted rebel leader vowed Monday to keep up his offensive against the Sudanese government, saying he can exhaust the military by fighting it all across Africa's largest nation. more A new wrinkle in smoking enforcement 12 May 08, 17:55 ET Reuters - Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke. more London police: Man stabbed on Oxford St. 12 May 08, 17:31 ET AP - A man was stabbed to death in broad daylight in London's main shopping district on Monday, police said. more GM to shut Windsor plant, CAW warns on buyouts 12 May 08, 17:17 ET Reuters - The Canadian Auto Workers union has set a Wednesday deadline to reach a deal with General Motors Corp on buyouts and early retirement packages for about 1,200 unionized workers who will lose their jobs when GM closes a Windsor, Ontario, transmission plant in 2010. more Bush sets off for Middle East, unable to quell its troubles 12 May 08, 17:13 ET McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM— President Bush sets off this week to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, but the festivities are likely to be muted by the dimming prospects for brokering regional peace deals during the Republican administration's waning months in power. more US flight arrives, Bush condemns Myanmar junta 12 May 08, 16:52 ET AFP - The United States sent its first aid flight to Myanmar on Monday but President George W. Bush denounced the nation's military rulers over their slow response to the devastating cyclone. more Canada targets gasoline pumps amid price worries 12 May 08, 16:44 ET Reuters - Canada's Conservative government says it can't do anything about the high price of gasoline but on Monday it promised to make sure consumers get what they pay for when they fuel up their cars. more Why Pakistan's Government Collapsed 12 May 08, 16:40 ET Time.com - Failure to agree on reinstating sacked judges may reveal a deeper schism over how to handle President Musharraf more Canada to buy fewer F-35 fighters than thought 12 May 08, 16:12 ET Reuters - The Canadian government said on Monday it would buy 65 new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, a figure lower than the 80 planes that had widely circulated in the media. more Bolivia's Morales approves August recall vote 12 May 08, 15:58 ET AP - President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. more 2008 turns out to be a year of trouble for China 12 May 08, 15:19 ET AP - China hoped 2008 would be a yearlong celebration, a time to bask in the spotlight of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Instead, the Year of the Rat has also brought a wave of troubles - both natural and man-made - that are putting a heavy strain on the communist leadership. more Putin names Cabinet, bringing loyalists from Kremlin 12 May 08, 14:59 ET AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wasted no time in naming his new Cabinet on Monday, bringing in loyalists from the Kremlin in what was seen as an effort to shift the center of power to his new place of work. more UN chief slams Myanmar junta for slow response 12 May 08, 14:28 ET AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone victims. more Monks back on front lines to aid cyclone victims 12 May 08, 14:25 ET AP - The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims. more I'm my harshest critic admits Hamilton 12 May 08, 14:05 ET AFP - Lewis Hamilton is convinced his determination not to settle for second best is the key to becoming world Formula One champion. more Jordan charges man in honor killing of sister 12 May 08, 14:00 ET AP - A man who is suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair was charged Monday with premeditated murder, a judicial official said. more Israeli police widen probe into Olmert donations 12 May 08, 13:40 ET AP - Israeli police raided Jerusalem's City Hall on Monday, searching offices and confiscating documents as part of a widening corruption inquiry against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. more GM to close Canadian assembly plant in 2010 12 May 08, 13:26 ET AFP - General Motors of Canada announced Monday that its Windsor transmission plant will close in the second quarter of 2010, leaving 1,400 workers without jobs. more Cuba: Bush chat with dissidents a 'show' 12 May 08, 12:45 ET AP - Cuba on Monday dismissed a videoconference between President Bush and three key dissidents as a stunt to bolster the U.S. leader's low approval ratings, claiming there would be no political opposition on the island without funding from Washington. more Polish Holocaust hero dies at age 98 12 May 08, 12:35 ET AP - Irena Sendler - credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets - died Monday, her family said. She was 98. more GM to close Windsor plant employing 1,400 12 May 08, 12:33 ET Reuters - GM Canada said on Monday it plans to close its Windsor transmission plant in the second quarter of 2010, saying upcoming versions of its cars would not require components from that facility. more Egyptian intelligence chief in Israel for talks 12 May 08, 12:10 ET AP - Egypt dispatched its powerful intelligence chief to Israel on Monday in an attempt to mediate an end to months of violence in the Gaza Strip, but Israeli leaders said there would be no truce unless Gaza militants release an Israeli soldier they have held captive for nearly two years. more Sharif's party quits Pakistan government 12 May 08, 12:03 ET Reuters - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of Pakistan's six-week-old coalition government on Monday, plunging the volatile Muslim nation back into political uncertainty. more Iran hard-liners come out against Iraqi-US deal 12 May 08, 11:09 ET AP - Two hard-line newspapers seen as speaking for Iran's clerical establishment called Monday for Iraqis to oppose a strategic framework deal with the United States, Tehran's first public condemnation of the arrangement. more Some of the world's deadliest natural disasters 12 May 08, 11:09 ET AP - A look at some of the deadliest natural disasters around the world in the past 40 years: more Putin in control as Russia names cabinet 12 May 08, 11:01 ET Reuters - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a cabinet line-up on Monday which combined key ministers and powerful Kremlin figures into an unusually strong team under his command. more 5 more children die of virus in China 12 May 08, 10:33 ET AP - Five more children have died of hand, foot and mouth disease in China, bringing the death toll to 39 since late March, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. more Remains of two babies found in box 12 May 08, 10:23 ET AFP - The remains of two dead babies have found in a box at a house in Greater Manchester, police said on Monday. more US battles Shiite militia in Baghdad despite ceasefire 12 May 08, 09:23 ET AFP - American troops fought street Shiite militia in Baghdad's Sadr City, killing three people, as a weekend ceasefire deal aimed at halting the bloodshed got off to a slow start, officials said on Monday. more Serbia begins postelection talks 12 May 08, 08:47 ET AP - Serbia's nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals' claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government. more Renewed fighting erupts in crisis-torn Lebanon 12 May 08, 08:12 ET AFP - Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday, further exacerbating tensions after days of deadly sectarian battles that have driven the nation to the brink of full-blown civil war. more McCartney marriage ends, two months after divorce 12 May 08, 08:11 ET AFP - Paul McCartney's marriage to ex-model Heather Mills was formally ended Monday as a judge granted them a decree nisi, two months after they struck a high-profile bitter divorce settlement. more Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies 12 May 08, 07:52 ET Reuters - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said. more 900 feared buried in southwest China: official media 12 May 08, 07:43 ET AFP - Nearly 900 students are feared buried and four killed on Monday when a powerful earthquake caused a high school building to collapse in southwestern China, state-run Xinhua news agency said. more Mountain clashes bring Lebanon death toll to 81 12 May 08, 07:30 ET Reuters - Clashes resumed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Monday and security sources said at least 36 people had been killed on Sunday in fighting between Hezbollah and its pro-government Druze opponents east of Beirut. more UN food agency says rice prices surging in Myanmar 12 May 08, 07:25 ET AP - Rice prices in Myanmar's capital have surged 50 percent since deadly cyclone Nargis, which flooded entire rice-growing areas, a United Nations food agency said Monday. more Australian pokes shark in eye to survive mauling 12 May 08, 07:19 ET AP - An Australian swimmer says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye. more 2 Humvees missing from US base in Afghanistan 12 May 08, 07:12 ET AP - Two armored Humvees were missing from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Monday. more U.S. troops repel attacks in Baghdad slum, kill 3 12 May 08, 06:58 ET Reuters - U.S. forces killed three gunmen who attacked their patrols in the Baghdad stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the military said on Monday. more US national found dead in Nigerian seaport 12 May 08, 06:56 ET AFP - An American man was found dead on board a vessel anchored at the Nigerian port of Onne, near the country's restive oil city of Port Harcourt, a military spokesman said Monday. more Powerful quake hits southwest China, killing five 12 May 08, 06:45 ET AFP - A powerful 7.8-magnitude quake struck Monday close to densely populated areas of southwestern China, killing at least five people and rattling cities across a swathe of southeast Asia. more Serbia in coalition scramble after ambivalent vote 12 May 08, 06:28 ET Reuters - Serbia's pro-European alliance sought a coalition deal with smaller parties on Monday to stave off a challenge from nationalist runners-up who say they too can form a government after Sunday's parliamentary election. more Human Rights Watch: Persecution after Uzbek violence 12 May 08, 06:22 ET AP - Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group says in a report released Monday. more US military: Clashes in Baghdad despite cease-fire 12 May 08, 06:21 ET AP - American soldiers killed three Shiite extremists who attacked them with small arms and rocket launchers in Baghdad's sprawling Shiite slum, despite a reported cease-fire, the U.S. military said Monday. more Vietnam nabs suspected baby traffickers 12 May 08, 06:19 ET AP - Police said Monday they have arrested two people in northern Vietnam for trying to transport a newborn baby to China as part of a baby-trafficking ring, the second suspected ring broken up in a week. more Sudan arrests opposition leader, pursues rebels 12 May 08, 05:56 ET AFP - Sudan on Monday arrested Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi and pressed its pursuit of Darfur rebels who threatened again to attack the capital as sporadic gunfire rang out across Khartoum. more Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children dies 12 May 08, 04:47 ET AFP - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation in World War II, died Monday in Warsaw aged 98, her daughter confirmed. more Hasty truce with Moqtada al-Sadr tests his sway in Baghdad stronghold 12 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - A cease-fire deal to end seven weeks of fighting in Sadr City could provide the clearest test yet of just how much sway the anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has over armed militants operating inside his sprawling bastion of support in Baghdad. more Iraqi officials: Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq 12 May 08, 03:51 ET AP - Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. more Darfur rebel leader vows more attacks on Khartoum 12 May 08, 03:49 ET Reuters - Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Monday he would launch more attacks on Sudan's capital Khartoum until the government fell. more Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes western China 12 May 08, 03:41 ET AP - A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck western China on Monday, shaking buildings as far away as Thailand and Vietnam, witnesses and geologists said. Thousands of people were evacuated from buildings in Beijing, some 900 miles from the epicenter. more Zimbabwe may bar Western observers from run-off: state media 12 May 08, 03:33 ET AFP - Zimbabwe's government will bar Western countries from observing a runoff election unless they remove sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's regime, state media reported Monday. more Renault-Nissan, Bajaj announce cheap car project 12 May 08, 03:23 ET AFP - Renault-Nissan and the Indian group Bajaj announced a joint venture Monday to produce a 2,500-dollar (1,600-euro) car, with sales expected to begin in India in early 2011. more Pakistan governing coalition faces dissolution 12 May 08, 03:16 ET AP - The future of Pakistan's fledgling coalition government hung in the balance Monday after failed talks on how to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. more Taliban deliver silent death threats after midnight 12 May 08, 01:59 ET Reuters - Afghans call them 'night letters' -- notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night, threatening villagers' lives if they cooperate with foreign forces and the government. more India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight 12 May 08, 01:48 ET Reuters - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. more Chinese want to know how much officials paid: survey 12 May 08, 00:55 ET Reuters - Less than a month after China put into effect a new law supposed to boost government transparency most Chinese want to know one thing -- how much officials get paid, a state newspaper said on Monday. more RIM's new BlackBerry Bold targets business market 12 May 08, 00:41 ET Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base of business users, but it hopes the sleek device will also catch on in the broad retail market. more Venezuelan president criticizes German chancellor 12 May 08, 00:19 ET AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at Germany's chancellor on Sunday, suggesting that her party shares the political ideals of Adolf Hitler. more

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