AP - The State Department plans to caution Americans traveling in Europe to be vigilant because of heightened concerns about a potential al-Qaida terrorist attack aimed at U.S. citizens and Europeans.

AP - Iran's president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.

AP - If you don't like the economy, blame President Barack Obama and Democrats because they're making times tougher, Republicans are telling voters entering the four-week homestretch to an election the GOP hopes will return the party to power in Congress.

AP - Brazilians vote Sunday in national elections that could see front-running candidate Dilma Rousseff become the country's first female president, succeeding her popular ally and mentor.

AP - GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and Democratic rival Jerry Brown traded barbs over immigration policy and Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper during a heated debate that was aimed at California's growing Latino population.

AP - It's a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable.

AP - This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton crop, another noise is threatening to drown those out: the pleas of a struggling textile industry begging the U.S. and Europe to open their markets further.

AP - Egypt is backing the Palestinians' refusal to negotiate with Israel as long as it builds West Bank settlements, while urging continued diplomacy to try to salvage U.S.-mediated talks that started only a month ago.

AP - A Japanese researcher who discovered how to make stem cells from ordinary skin cells and avoid the ethical quandaries of making them from human eggs could be a candidate for the medicine award when the 2010 Nobel Prize announcements kick off Monday, experts said.

AP - The Ryder Cup is heading for the first Monday finish in its 83-year history.

Reuters - Tens of thousands of people rallied near the Lincoln Memorial in the U.S. capital on Saturday as liberal groups attempted to energize their base a month before pivotal congressional elections.

Reuters - Direct talks with Israel will not resume unless it halts the building of Jewish settlements on occupied land, the Palestinian leadership said on Saturday.

Reuters - The United States is considering formally alerting Americans to be vigilant as they travel in Europe in light of intelligence pointing to threatened attacks by al Qaeda militants, a U.S. official said on Saturday.

Reuters - Brazilians are expected to place their trust in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and vote for his hand-picked successor on Sunday, possibly giving her an outright victory without needing a runoff vote.

Reuters - The world's top greenhouse polluter hosts week-long U.N. climate talks from Monday aimed at sealing a broader pact to fight global warming and helping poorer nations with money and clean-energy technology.

Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao criticized members of Congress in an interview set to air on Sunday for "politicizing" the U.S. trade imbalance with China because they do not know China well.

Reuters - California's first Spanish-language debate in the race for governor turned into an angry exchange on Saturday when Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown traded charges of lies and deception over the case of an illegal immigrant who used to work for Whitman.

Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assured his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday that their ties were solid -- a view unlikely to please Washington which is working to isolate the Islamic state.

AFP - The US State Department appeared poised to issue a formal alert Sunday telling Americans traveling in Europe to remain vigilant of possible terror strikes, a US official said.

AFP - India's day of destiny finally arrived Sunday with the Commonwealth Games due to begin in a fortress-like New Delhi after a shambolic run-up that threatened to derail the event.