As a senior U.S. team arrived in Beijing for discussions on global warming, the standoff was taking on the trappings of cold-war arms control negotiations.
Brazilian ships picked three more corpses from the water, bringing to five the number recovered from the area where an Air France Airbus disappeared a week ago.
AP - Four more bodies were found Sunday bobbing in the ocean near the spot where an Air France jet is believed to have crashed a week ago, bringing the total number of bodies plucked from the water to six, Brazil's military said.
AP - At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
AP - Mexican soldiers fought a two-hour battle with heavily armed men holed up at a house in an Acapulco hotel zone, killing 15 of the gunmen as Mexican tourist cowered in their rooms nearby.
Three more bodies were found today from the Air France plane that went missing off the coast of Brazil nearly a week ago, Brazilian officials said. More bodies could be seen and could be recovered within hours, they added. The bodies of two males were found Saturday. But Brazilian air force and navy officials said it was not possible to identify the sex of the latest three bodies.
Parents of the children trapped in a burning Mexican day care center rammed their vehicles into the building to try to free the trapped children, witnesses told CNN. At least 38 children died when flames engulfed the building. Dozens more are in hospitals in Mexico and the United States.
Five American security contractors have been detained in connection with the killing of another American contractor last month inside Baghdad's Green Zone, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad confirmed Sunday morning.