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| Mexico captures Sinaloa cartel boss 'Chapo' Guzman Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 07:04 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities captured the world's most powerful drug lord in a resort city Saturday after a massive search through the home state of the legendary capo whose global organization is the leading supplier of cocaine to the United States. Full Story | Top |
| Carbon monoxide detected at NY mall, 1 dead Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 08:15 PM PST HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — A hospital spokeswoman says a man has died after being overcome by carbon monoxide at a New York mall. Full Story | Top |
| Bio information on Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 02:07 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — NAME — Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera Full Story | Top |
| Maria von Trapp, 99, dies in Vermont Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 07:03 PM PST  STOWE, Vermont (AP) — Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member and second-eldest daughter of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 99. Full Story | Top |
| UN demands humanitarian aid for all of Syria Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:02 PM PST  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council united for the first time on a resolution on Syria's humanitarian crisis Saturday, demanding that President Bashar Assad's government and the opposition provide immediate access everywhere in the country to deliver aid to millions of people in desperate need. Full Story | Top |
| Norwegian women, Dutch speedskaters strike gold Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:36 PM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The Norwegian women revived their cross country skiing dominance at the Sochi Olympics on Saturday and the Dutch added two more speedskating gold medals to their record haul. Full Story | Top |
| 2 more athletes test positive at Sochi Olympics Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:22 PM PST SOCHI, Russia (AP) — A Latvian hockey player and a Ukrainian cross-country skier failed drug tests at the Sochi Olympics, bringing to four the number of doping cases at the games. Full Story | Top |
| 2 popes on hand in historic 1st cardinal ceremony Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:26 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — In an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future, retired Pope Benedict XVI joined Pope Francis at a ceremony Saturday to formally install new cardinals who will one day elect their successor. Full Story | Top |
| AP PHOTOS: Sochi on Day 16 Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 11:38 AM PST The Netherlands speedskating team celebrates gold in the men's team pursuit. Carolina Kostner of Italy casts a shadow on the rink as she begins her figure skating routine. And a hockey puck bounces off the wall during a warm up session before the USA vs. Finland bronze medal game. Here's a look at Saturday's highlights from the Sochi Olympics. Full Story | Top |
| Detentions of major Mexico drug chiefs Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 10:50 AM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Top Mexican drug cartel captures or killings in recent years: Full Story | Top |
| Most-wanted capo looks pudgy, bowed post-arrest Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 01:18 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The man who eluded Mexican authorities for 13 years looked pudgy, bowed and middle-aged as he was marched by masked marines across a tarmac to a helicopter waiting to whisk him to jail. Full Story | Top |
| Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 02:03 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — A massive operation that mushroomed through the western Mexican state of Sinaloa last week netted the world's top drug lord, who was captured early Saturday by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a condominium in Mazatlan, officials from both countries said. Full Story | Top |
| IOC says Latvian hockey player tests positive Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 12:44 PM PST  SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The IOC says a Latvian hockey player has been expelled from the Sochi Olympics after failing a doping test. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine's Tymoshenko rallies protesters in Kiev Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 03:23 PM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In a stunning reversal of fortune, Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko left imprisonment Saturday and spoke to a massive, adoring crowd, while her arch-foe President Viktor Yanukovych decamped to eastern Ukraine and vowed he would remain in power. Full Story | Top |
| Venezuelans protest en masse in rival rallies Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 06:02 PM PST Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas in marches for and against President Nicolas Maduro's government Saturday, as the nation's massive divide became ever more visible. The protests -- which began on February 4 -- are seen as the biggest test yet to socialist leader Maduro since he succeeded late leftist icon Hugo Chavez last year, with the country's economic problems at the heart of often bloody scenes that have left 10 people dead and scores injured. Just 24 hours after Maduro made a rare offer to US President Barack Obama of talks to end more than a decade of enmity, there appeared no prospect of rapprochement after Secretary of State John Kerry hit out at the Venezuelan government's handling of the protests. Heeding the call of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who narrowly lost to Maduro in the election to succeed Chavez last year, at least 50,000 anti-government protesters streamed into several avenues in the Caracas neighborhood of Sucre. Full Story | Top |
| Opposition: Ukraine's Yanukovych has left Kiev Saturday, Feb 22, 2014 11:06 AM PST  Embattled President Viktor Yanukovych has left Kiev, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said amid reports that the president has fled the country altogether. Full Story | Top |
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