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.

Rescuers work in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine jumps to 87.

After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assures the archbishop of Canterbury that he is still committed to seeking closer ties between Catholics and Anglicans.

Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."