Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up....

Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted....

Nigeria: Vice president now acting president
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector....

Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."...

Italian Catholic scandal draws in Pope Benedict
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A scandal in Italy's Catholic Church has morphed into a tale of Vatican intrigue complete with forged documents, reports of dueling cardinals and a papal admonishment Tuesday to put the matter to rest....

US poised to seize Afghan town as Taliban dig in
NEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone....

Iran sentences another activist to death
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday, bringing to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty for the unrest following June's disputed presidential election....

EU nations' reality: Greece's woes are theirs, too
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Wealthy European nations were moving closer toward swallowing a bitter pill Tuesday: rescuing Greece from its overspending before its debts drag down the euro and stock markets all the way to Wall Street....

Sri Lankan parliament dissolved ahead of new vote
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power....

Tymoshenko camp vows to challenge Ukraine vote
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko plans to legally challenge the results of the presidential runoff that opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won, her campaign said Tuesday....