AP - Iraqi security forces raided a town in central Iraq and freed some 15 Shiite families being held hostage on Sunday, an official said, after Sunni militants threatened to kill dozens of captives unless all Shiites left the area.
AP - Authorities hoped an autopsy would positively identify a body that matches the description of a missing 13-year-old girl and was found submerged in a fishpond near her home.
AP - Cardinals had a few last hours to confer with aides or pray with faithful before required check-in at a top-security hotel in Vatican City on Sunday, a day before they will be sequestered in secret sessions in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope.
The six-day search for 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde ended Saturday when search dogs found her body partially submerged in a pond at a fish farm near her Florida home, Hillsborough Sheriff David Gee said. "It was clear from investigators that whoever put her there went to great effort to conceal her body," Gee said.