AP - Pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych declared victory in Ukraine's presidential runoff but his opponent rejected the claim, saying the vote was too close to call.

AP - A senior Chinese envoy was in North Korea on Monday on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said, while officials from the two Koreas met in the North to discuss restarting joint tour programs.

AP - Costa Rica's governing party candidate swept toward an election victory Sunday night that would make her the first woman president in this Central American nation.

AP - Ex-President Nestor Kirchner, husband of Argentina's current leader and a hopeful to resume the office, emerged successfully from emergency surgery on a key artery to his brain Sunday, his doctors said.

AP - The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle.