AP - The killing of a veteran radio reporter by a motorcycle gunman in a northwestern state capital reignited concerns Saturday about the safety of journalists in Colombia.
AP - More Americans in Mexico are falling victim to a wave of drug violence sweeping the country, a change driven home by the recent killing of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband who were gunned down after leaving a children's birthday party.
AP - Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church failed Saturday to calm the anger of many victims, who accused the Vatican of ducking its own responsibility in promoting a worldwide culture of cover-up.
AP - Authorities will search once again for a missing U.S. teen after an American couple took an underwater picture of what they believe might be Natalee Holloway's remains, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors' office told The Associated Press on Saturday.
AP - Thousands of people have rallied across Russia to denounce the government's economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests.
Time.com - In an interview with TIME, the psychiatrist who treated the Catholic priest accused of pedophilia describes his former patient's attitude -- then and now
Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right party faces heavy losses in regional elections Sunday that could affect the pace of reform as maneuvering begins before the 2012 presidential campaign.
AP - A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.
AP - A half century ago, police officers massacred 69 black South Africans in the township of Sharpeville, where protesters had burned the passbooks that the white-led apartheid government required them to carry at all times.
AP - About 60,000 homes are without power, trees and signs have blown over and boats have been smashed on the rocks after a massive storm blew across the coast of northeastern Australia.
Reuters - The Conservatives hold a lead over their main rivals in an opinion poll released on Saturday, but do not have enough support to win a majority government if an election took place now.
AFP - A tropical cyclone smashed into Australia's northeast coast on Sunday, with winds of up to 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour damaging buildings, downing trees and cutting power to thousands of homes.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — The count in the Iraqi elections isn't yet over, but tallies released this week reveal upsets in restive provinces that portend a weak and fractious Iraq with battles looming on several fronts: Arab-Kurd rivalries, an internecine Shiite Muslim power struggle and what role Sunni Arabs will play in the next government.
The Christian Science Monitor - Having enjoyed the celebrations of St. Patrick's Day, many Irish people at home and abroad are now staring with disbelief at the state of their nation.
Time.com - Last's weeks blood protests in Bangkok were a rare public revelation of a more covert aspect of the ongoing conflict between the country's political movements -- a war of the supernatural
OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Mar 19 (IRIN) - The steep decline in anti-personnel landmine use
in the past decade by governments is being mirrored by a similar trend
among armed non-state actors (NSAs).