Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in the 14-month uprising.Read more

The two Egyptian presidential candidates who will compete in a runoff after a landmark election last week sought Saturday to portray themselves as champions of last year's popular revolt, while losing candidates called for a recount and suggested that fraud may have altered the outcome.Read more

Space station astronauts enter the privately owned Dragon capsule.Read more

The detention of the pope's butler, one of the few members of the papal household, capped one of the most convulsive weeks in recent Vatican history and threw the Holy See into chaos as it enters a critical phase in its efforts to show the world that it's serious about complying with international norms on financial transparency.Read more

CAIRO — A senior Arab League official says Syria has denied permission for a deputy of U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to travel to Damascus.Read more

Voters are looking at two polarizing figures in a runoff for president.Read more

Vatican rejects petition

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Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside City Hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.Read more

The capsule is expected to return to Earth next week with a load of space gear.Read more

Thirteen children are said to be among the victims.Read more