Congo: 70 dead in 2nd weekend boat capsize (AP)
AP - A Congolese official says 70 people are believed dead after a riverboat capsized in the second reported deadly boat tipping this weekend.
Basque separatist group ETA announce cease-fire (AP)

In this video grab provided by ETA to Gara.net, members of the Basque Separatist militant group ETA gesture as they make a statement. The Basque separatist militant group ETA has issued a video on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, declaring a cease fire. The video appeared on Basque newspaper Gara's website and was also made available to the British broadcaster BBC. It showed three masked militants making a statement in Basque, in usual ETA style. Gara accompanied the video with a transcription of the statement in Basque and Spanish. (AP Photo/Gara.net)AP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal' (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his secretary Georg Gaenswein, right, blesses faithful during the Angelus prayer at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide, due to heavy rains, on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. At least 12 passengers were killed and around 25 injured, rescue workers said. (AP Photo)AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.
Taliban threaten to attack Afghan polling stations (AP)

An Afghan boy is removed from a stretcher at a hospital, after being injured in a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Some people were killed and others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy in the insurgent hotbed of Kandahar, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
Israel: Now, More than Ever, Fascinated By Netanyahu (Time.com)
Time.com - No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of Gorbachev -- and Nixon in China
Accident at German flight show kills 1, injures 38 (AP)

People stand next to the debris of a small plane at the Lillinghof airfield near the Bavarian town of Lauf Germany Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Police say the pilot of the small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking part at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and several injured. A spokesman said Sunday that police had not yet established how many people were injured in the crash, at the Lillinghof airfield. (AP Photo/dapd/Stefanie Buchner-Freiberger)AP - A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and 38 injured, police said.
Bahrain steps up pressure on Shiite 'plotters' (AP)
AP - What began last month with the arrest of an opposition leader in Bahrain has mushroomed into a full-blown political offensive in the tiny Gulf nation with big fault lines: U.S.-allied Sunni rulers against members of a Shiite majority being cast as coup plotters who could open the door to Iranian influence.
Police nab alleged smuggler of Ecuadorean migrant (AP)
AP - Authorities have detained an alleged smuggler of an Ecuadorean man who told police he survived a massacre of 72 fellow migrants in Mexico, the justice minister confirmed Sunday.
Ghana stroll to Nations Cup victory (AFP)

Ghana's midfielder Andre Ayew, pictured in June 2010. World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana cruised to a 3-0 victory over little Swaziland Sunday in an opening-round 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana cruised to a 3-0 victory over little Swaziland Sunday in an opening-round 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier.
Teen star Noh boosts Order of Merit bid (AFP)

Teenage South Korean star Noh Seung-yul, pictured in August 2010, produced an impressive fourth place finish at the European Masters on Sunday to widen his lead on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Graythen)AFP - Teenage South Korean star Noh Seung-yul produced an impressive fourth place finish at the European Masters on Sunday to widen his lead on the Asian Tour's Order of Merit.
China tells state companies to explore Potash bid (Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese officials have ordered state companies to meet investment bankers to explore ways to block BHP Billiton's $39 billion bid for Potash Corp, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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