AP – A former Mexican sports commissioner whose daughter was killed by her abductors criticized the government Wednesday for failing to combat crimes like kidnapping as aggressively as it fights drug trafficking. Read more

AP – A powerful earthquake that struck western Indonesia triggered landslides and trapped thousands of people under collapsed buildings ? including two hospitals, an official said. At least 200 bodies were found in one coastal city and the toll was expected to be far higher. Read more

AP – Police in green reflective vests searched a ghastly landscape of mud-strewn streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed survivors emerged from the muck and mire of an earthquake and tsunami that killed 119 in the South Pacific. Read more

AP – A powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering landslides and trapping thousands under collapsed buildings ? including two hospitals, an official said. At least 75 bodies were found, but the toll was expected to be far higher. Read more

AP – Disaster officials rushed food, medicine and a temporary morgue to the Samoas on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake unleashed a tsunami that flattened villages and swept cars and people out to sea. At least 119 people were killed. Survivors fled to higher ground on the South Pacific islands after the magnitude 8.0 quake [...]