BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. Egypt's Morsi declares emergency in 3 provinces
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's president has declared a 30-day state of emergency and curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by a wave of political violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days. Survival of endangered spotted owls forces B.C. to kill cousin species
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government has approved the shooting one species of owl in a last-ditch effort to save their endangered cousins, as the number of northern spotted owls continues to decline decades after they became the mascot of the “War in the Woods” over old-growth logging.
Self-represented legal novice wages costly fight against hydro megaproject
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – If Brad Cabana’s lonely court crusade against the Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject was a Bible story, it would be David versus Goliath and Goliath’s whole legal team.
AP PHOTOS: Scenes of panic at Brazil club fire
Here are photos showing the aftermath of a fatal nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. The club was hosting a party for university students, which turned fatal as hundreds of partygoers stampeded toward the exit. Firefighters and police say more than 200 are dead, and at least 200 are injured. Thousands march in Paris to support gay marriage
PARIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched through Paris on Sunday to support the French government's plan to legalize gay marriage and adoption, but the turnout fell well short of a mass demonstration against the project two weeks ago. Police estimated total attendance at about 125,000, while organizers put the number at 400,000. Two weeks ago, organizers of the anti-gay marriage protest claimed turnout of one million, while police put the number at 340,000, an unusually high turnout even in protest-prone France. … Egyptian president calls for dialogue with political forces to resolve latest crisis
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian president calls for dialogue with political forces to resolve latest crisis .
Egypt's new eruption of violence deepens malaise
CAIRO (AP) -- A new eruption of political violence in Egypt over the weekend left more than 50 people dead, deepening the malaise as the Islamist president struggles to get a grip on enormous social and economic problems and the increasingly dangerous fault lines that divide this nation of 85 million. Venezuela prison riot kills 61, government mum
URIBANA, Venezuela (Reuters) – A prison riot in southwestern Venezuela killed 61 people, a hospital official said on Sunday, although the government has refused to give an official death toll in the bloody standoff that highlighted chaos in the country's jails. The violence took place on Friday at the Uribana jail near the city of Barquisimeto. Relatives who gathered outside the jail fumed at the lack of information from authorities who have started transferring prisoners to other facilities but have not confirmed how many were killed. … EADS says Lauvergeon, Trichet on board short-list
PARIS (Reuters) – European aerospace group EADS on Sunday published a list of three names it had proposed to the French government to defend France's defense interes ts in a restructuring of Europe's largest aerospace company. The list includes former Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon and former European Central Banker President Jean-Claude Trichet, who could also sit on the EADS board, as well as former French army chief of staff General Bernard Thorette. … 
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