• Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dress
  A Brazilian university expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students when she wore a short, pink dress to class, taking out newspaper ads Sunday to publicly accuse her of immorality.

• Press group: Latam governments moving in on press
  Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.

• AP interview: Pablo Escobar's son asks forgiveness
  The son of the late notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar is back in the public eye 15 years after fleeing Colombia for a life of anonymity as an architect in Argentina.

• Iraqi parliament passes key election law
  Iraq's parliament has passed a long-delayed electoral law, paving the way for nationwide elections.

• Afghan vows to keep corrupt officials out of govt
  The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration - a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.

• Pakistani gov't pressured on post-offensive plan
  As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaida don't re-emerge.

• Turkey: Indicted Sudan leader won't attend summit
  Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.

• Government: 40 dead in El Salvador flooding
  Forty people have died in El Salvador following three days of heavy rains, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said Sunday.

• Swiss open probe of al-Qaida nuke physicist case
  Switzerland has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist France suspected of al-Qaida links, an official said Sunday.

• Italy: Wig-wearing mob fugitive nabbed near Naples
  Italy is hailing the capture of a wig-wearing mobster who was on the list of the country's top 30 fugitives.

• US attorney general: Gitmo reviews under way
  U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.

• Highlights of Obama's trip to Asia
  A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's trip to Asia:

• Obama confronts an Asia reshaped by China's rise
  Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China - one that would exclude the United States.

• Iranian lawmaker warns Russia over missile delay
  A senior Iranian lawmaker warned Russia that its delay in delivering an anti-aircraft missile defense system to Tehran could harm relations between the two countries, state television reported Sunday.

• Pope Benedict honors Paul VI in Italian birthplace
  Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

• Berlin guard: Opening wall `terrible' but right
  Harald Jaeger was a loyal East German border guard - respected and trusted to command a crossing point to the west on Berlin's Bornholmer Strasse.

• Queen leads Britain's ceremony for war dead
  Queen Elizabeth II led Britain's annual ceremony for the country's war dead Sunday, honoring them with a moment of silence as the military reported the 200th British soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan.

• Homeland chief warns against anti-Muslim backlash
  U.S. Homeland Security officials are working with groups around United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, the agency's chief said Sunday.

• Timeline of events leading to communism's collapse
  Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989:

• Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling
  Twenty years ago Monday, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

• Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa
  China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, offering the beleaguered continent sorely needed cash while dismissing criticism that Beijing's motives in Africa are far from altruistic.

• British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
  Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan.

• Pakistan bomb kills anti-Taliban mayor, 11 others
  A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in market in Pakistan's northwest crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said.

• China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding
  Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.

• Dalai Lama visits town near Tibet, angering China
  Joyous Buddhist pilgrims welcomed the Dalai Lama back Sunday to the Himalayan town he first set foot in five decades ago while fleeing Chinese rule in his native Tibet - a rare trip close to his homeland that has angered Beijing.