Posted: 10:50 PM The migrants were held in squalid conditions. Most of the victims are Central American migrants. Mexico's Interior Ministry says they were held for weeks. Rights groups have said drug cartels target migrants in Mexico.

Updated: 10:42 PM Two U.N. peacekeepers are wounded amid fighting between the Syrian government and rebels. The clashes occurred in Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Posted: 10:22 PM Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' guilty plea ensures that he will avoid the death penalty for the middle-of-the night slayings of 16 Afghan civilians.

Posted: 7:41 AM Indian police say a 30-year-old American woman has been gang-raped in the northern Indian resort town of Manali.

Posted: 6:30 AM Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China early Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said.

Posted: 1:32 PM Residents of Turkey's largest city awoke Sunday to scenes of rain-soaked municipal workers and volunteer activists cleaning up the garbage left after days of violent clashes and angry demonstrations against the government.

Posted: 1:29 PM A second suspect in the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby was charged Saturday with murder, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Posted: 11:27 PM Russia will send 10 MiG-29 fighter jets, Russian state media reports NEW: A Syrian delegation in Moscow is pressing for more fighter jets NEW: 189 are reported dead nationwide, an opposition group says

Posted: 11:17 PM Family says Nicole Mansfield is the dead woman in images from Syria; U.S. hasn't confirmed it this weekend. Daughter: Mom Nicole converted to Islam years ago, then wanted to go to Syria.

Posted: 9:21 PM A train speeding through a forested corridor in India's West Bengal killed three elephants and another is in a critical condition, a wildlife official said Friday.

Posted: 4:12 PM Engine covers that flew off and damaged a British Airways plane upon takeoff last week had been left unlatched during maintenance, British aviation investigators said in a preliminary report Friday.

Updated: 8:22 AM A U.S. woman jailed in Mexico on a drug-smuggling charge was released late Thursday night after court officials reviewed her case.

Posted: 6:41 PM A man was found guilty Thursday of murdering April Jones, a 5-year-old girl whose disappearance in a remote part of Wales last year sparked a huge search.

Updated: 6:50 PM The baby rescued from a sewer pipe was released from a hospital to his maternal grandparents late Wednesday, while his 22-year-old mother remains under medical care.

Posted: 6:19 PM A 22-year-old man appeared in court Thursday after he was charged with murder in the death of British soldier Lee Rigby in London last week.

Posted: 5:14 PM Remember when woolly mammoths roamed the planet? No? Well don't worry if you missed the last ice age -- scientists have moved one step closer to possibly bringing the beasts back to life with the discovery of liquid blood in a well-preserved mammoth carcass in Siberia.

Posted: 3:47 PM The plea of a pregnant woman to be granted an abortion has gripped El Salvador for months: She wanted an abortion after doctors told her that her baby would not survive outside the womb and that her life was at risk.

Posted: 1:10 PM One of the most horrific attacks on civilians in Afghanistan happened in March of last year when 16 civilians were slaughtered. On Wednesday, an American soldier agreed to a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

Updated: 8:31 AM Syria's president has told Lebanon's Hezbollah-owned TV station that Damascus has received the first shipment of Russian air defense missiles, according to remarks released Thursday.

Posted: 8:50 PM Honduras, the country with the world's highest murder rate, is backing talks between its two most violent gangs in search of a truce.

Posted: 10:10 AM A suspected U.S. drone strike Wednesday killed the No. 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban, although the militant group denied he was killed.

Posted: 6:33 AM Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed the No. 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban. The militant group denies he is dead.

Posted: 11:05 PM The WHO dubs the virus MERS-CoV. Patient with novel coronavirus dies of organ failure, French hospital reports.. "These are alarm bells," said World Health Organization director-general.

Updated: 11:01 PM Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world, according to the U.N. The two most violent gangs will begin talks for a possible truce "What we want is peace," a member of one of the country's most violent gangs says.

Posted: 10:56 PM State Department reports the embassy staffers shot in Venezuela are military officials, shot at the Antonella 2012 club. The officials' injuries are not life-threatening.