Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor....

Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger
HAVANA (AP) -- The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate....

Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs....

Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents....