BERLIN — Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow.Read more

At least 91 killed by flooding, landslides

EL SALVADOR — Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried the town of Verapaz on Sunday, swallowing homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 91 people, authorities said. Three days of downpours were attributed to a low-pressure system not related to Hurricane Ida, which brushed Mexico’s Cancun resort Sunday. — The Associated PressRead more

University expels woman for miniskirt

BRAZIL — A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class — publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality. Private Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo, said Geisy Arruda, 20, disrespected "ethical principles, academic dignity and morality." Arruda made headlines after the Oct. 22 incident, in which she had to be escorted away by police. She put on a professor’s white coat and left amid a hail of insults and curses. The university said it is also temporarily suspending some of the students who were seen heckling Arruda in a video of the incident that made the rounds on YouTube. — The Associated PressRead more

Obama, prime minister of Israel to meet in Washington

WASHINGTON — The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during Netanyahu’s trip to Washington to address Jewish groups. Netanyahu was arriving Sunday night for a speaking engagement at the three-day 2009 General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America. He will meet with Obama this evening. U.S.-Israeli relations have been strained since Netanyahu rejected Obama’s demand that the Israeli government stop building or expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The Palestinians say Israel has deeply encroached into land that the Palestinians claim for a future state. Not long after taking office, Obama said an end to settlements is a necessary condition for a resumption of peace negotiations.Read more

The festivities "should be a call to action," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.Read more

NATO reports the combat deaths of one American and two Britons.Read more

VERAPAZ, El Salvador — Soldiers and residents dug through rock and debris looking for dozens of people missing when a mudslide covered a town in El Salvador, part of a wave of flooding and landslides that has killed at least 124 people in this Central American country.Read more

Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen on Saturday for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen's president vowed to wipe out the insurrection.Read more

Army seizes shipment of opium

MEXICO — The Mexican army said Saturday that it seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country’s northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico. The 448 pounds of opium paste was found Thursday hidden in nine plastic containers in the township of Guadalupe y Calvo, in the border state of Chihuahua. The army said it could have yielded 200,000 doses of heroin or similar drugs. — The Associated PressRead more

Experts credit, in part, a government keen for revenue and villagers' cooperation.Read more