The Iranian government says a second session in the trial of three Americans accused of spying will be held May 11, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.
Joran van der Sloot's attorney said Monday that his client will plead guilty to killing a young Peruvian woman he met while gambling but will argue temporary insanity in a bid for a shorter sentence.
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake on Sunday shook a northern region of Chile that has felt several frightening but inconsequential tremors in recent days. No injuries and only minor damage were reported.

Sting says he is concerned by violence and repression in Libya and hopes peace will return to the troubled country.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi vowed Tuesday to "die a martyr" rather than flee his embattled country, as tens of thousands of foreigners rushed across the borders to Tunisia or Egypt or caught emergency flights to Europe.

Sting says he is concerned by violence and repression in Libya and hopes peace will return to the troubled country.
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, Maine Republican, says she's gaining support in her call for a federal review of security forces in Afghanistan after a soldier from Maine and five others soldiers were killed by an Afghan recruit during training exercises.

Nicholas Brooks, 24, pleaded not guilty in New York on Tuesday to the murder of fashion designer Sylvie Cachay, 33, who grew up in the Washington area and in Peru.
I must respond to the misleading Nov. 15 letter from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), "Clearing up Camisea misconceptions," written to conceal the financial mismanagement and environmental damage caused by the Camisea project, which were exposed in Kelly Hearn's Nov. 9 article "U.S. questions development bank after troubled gas project in Peru."