| A debt deal by Thursday? Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:47 AM PDT  A GOP senator predicted that the two sides would come together in order to avoid a default.
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| Indian officials say few deaths in massive cyclone Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT  BEHRAMPUR, India (AP) — Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday, as the country sorted through the wreckage of flooded towns, tangled power lines and tens of thousands of destroyed thatch homes.
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| 22 years later, arrest made in ‘Baby Hope’ murder case Posted: 12 Oct 2013 03:12 PM PDT  More than 22 years after Anjelica Castillo, aka "Baby Hope" was found murdered in the woods of upper Manhattan police have made an arrest in the case.
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| After Kenya mall attack, children's trauma lingers Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:04 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When the shooting began at the Nairobi mall, Cynthia Carpino and her husband hid in the parking lot. But their 1-year-old daughter wouldn't stop crying. To muffle her cries, her father placed his hand over her mouth so hard she almost suffocated. Little Azzurra fainted in his arms, and three weeks later she's still not right.
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| Stampede near Indian temple kills 89 people Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:50 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — A stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India left at least 89 people dead Sunday, police said.
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| Arrest in Baby Hope case brings closure to police Posted: 13 Oct 2013 05:29 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The announcement of an arrest in one of New York City's most notorious cold cases was especially relieving for two hardened investigators, who for 22 years had been working to identify the girl they nicknamed Baby Hope after discovering her body stuffed in a picnic cooler along a highway.
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| Hope remains for global recovery beyond US impasse Posted: 13 Oct 2013 02:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries about a possible U.S. debt default cast a pall over weekend meetings of global financial leaders in Washington. But they ended with some hope over signs that the U.S. and European economies are pulling out of long slumps.
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| Spending stumbling block to budget deal Posted: 13 Oct 2013 10:19 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that enters its third week.
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| Migrants say they were fired upon leaving Libya Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:38 AM PDT  VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Migrants who were rescued after their smugglers' boat capsized in the Mediterranean say they were shot at as they left a Libyan port, making plain that perilous seas are not the only dangers refugees face when they flee their homes for Europe.
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| Furloughed workers pinching pennies, volunteering Posted: 13 Oct 2013 06:31 AM PDT  They're experienced research engineers and park rangers still in college, attorneys who enforce environmental regulations and former soldiers who took civilian jobs with the military after coming home from war.
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| 7 Red Cross workers kidnapped in northern Syria Posted: 13 Oct 2013 09:30 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped a team of seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy early Sunday along a roadside in northern Syria, a spokesman said.
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| Senate leads hunt for shutdown and debt limit deal Posted: 13 Oct 2013 08:06 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators put faith in party leaders Sunday to devise a plan that would reopen the government and steer clear of a potential default this week, saying it's unthinkable that political obstinacy would prevent the United States from paying its bills.
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| Tigers nearly no-hit Red Sox, win ALCS opener 1-0 Posted: 12 Oct 2013 10:16 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Lose the no-hitter, win the game.
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| Malta's leader arrives in Libya following tragedy Posted: 13 Oct 2013 05:33 AM PDT  VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta's prime minister has arrived in Libya to discuss the issue of migrants using this north African state as a staging ground for their sea journeys toward European shores.
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| Muslim hajj crowds thinned by virus concerns Posted: 13 Oct 2013 07:12 AM PDT  MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslims from across the world poured Sunday into a sprawling tent city in the Saudi desert before the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage, but the number of the pilgrims this year has been reduced in part by concerns over a respiratory virus centered in the Arabian peninsula.
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| US-Afghan officials near a deal on American troops Posted: 12 Oct 2013 09:56 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. and Afghan President Hamid Karzai reached an agreement in principle Saturday on the major elements of a deal that would allow American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014.
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