After decades of mistrust and sometimes betrayal, Mexican and U.S. authorities are increasingly setting aside their differences to unite against a common enemy.

Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander says.

Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 15 people have died, officials said.

Police say three bombs have exploded in India's restive northeast killing five people and wounding more than 25 others.

American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan.

Egypt's president criticizes Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlements in the disputed sector of the holy city threaten to anger the entire Muslim world.

Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported.

Israeli aircraft attacks two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip in what the military says was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire.

Photos on Facebook have cost a Canadian woman her long-term sick leave benefits.

A former vice president has been released on bail in the mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the Iran's post-election unrest, the official IRNA news agency reports.