Mexican authorities have arrested three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist accused of stealing newborns at a private hospital and selling them, the Mexico City attorney general's office says. One of the abducted babies was reunited with her biological mother on Thursday.

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo continued to purge the top ranks of the nation's military Friday, removing the armed forces' commander.

Two members of the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan have been missing since Wednesday, the force said Friday.

A Spanish judge would consider sending two Somali pirate suspects held in Madrid back to Africa, as demanded by pirates holding a Spanish fishing boat and its crew off the Somali coast, it was reported Friday.

A new international treaty to combat climate change will not be ready when 40 world leaders meet next month in Copenhagen but may be finished next year, a top United Nations official said Friday in Barcelona.

In a major speech on Afghanistan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that Britain "cannot, must not, and will not walk away" from its mission there.

A court sentenced four people to death in northern Tanzania for the killing of an albino man who was targeted for body parts believed to have special powers, authorities said Friday.

Hurricane Ida unleashed heavy rains as it neared Nicaragua's coast early Thursday, with forecasters warning that it could make landfall in a few hours.

The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

A suspected drone strike killed at least four people in a mountainous border region where the Taliban has long operated, Pakistani officials said Thursday.

Afghan opium is bankrolling the Taliban and fueling terrorism and insurgencies in Central Asia, the head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warns in a new report on the heroin trade. About 15 million people around the world use heroin, opium or morphine, fueling a $65 billion market, according to the study.

Iraq's parliament failed Wednesday to reach agreement on a new electoral law, but the parliament speaker said it would not affect the date of the general election scheduled for January.

Three days of talks on Iran's nuclear program wrapped up here Wednesday with a draft agreement on how to provide the Islamic republic nuclear fuel for civilian purposes.

Pakistan denied Wednesday that it is harboring a Sunni rebel leader accused of orchestrating a suicide attack in neighboring Iran.

Authorities have closed all educational institutions across the county until at least the end of the week, following twin suicide bombings at an Islamic university on Tuesday.

A train collision in northern India kills at least 13 people and injures 15. The Goa Express bound for New Delhi slammed into the stationary Mewar Express apparently because the driver overshot a signal to stop, a spokesman for India's northern railway says.

The first nine months of this year has seen more pirate attacks than all of last year. And more than half of those attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates, an international maritime watchdog group said Wednesday.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday they would review polling stations in Afghanistan from which they had received complaints amid widespread criticism that the United Nations failed to provide free and fair balloting in the first round of the country's elections.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to announce Tuesday whether he will accept findings that indicate he did not secure enough votes to win a second term.

Israeli President Shimon Peres rejects a United Nations report on his country's incursion into Gaza as "one-sided" and "unfair" in an interview with CNN.