BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ( AP) — President Cristina Fernandez would need a third term in office to complete her transformation of Argentina, her vice president said Thursday, feeding her opponents’ fears that the newly re-elected leader will try to change the constitution and stay in power beyond 2015.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials say a bomb exploded outside a police station in a western town, killing a police officer and wounding at least 20 people. It is Colombia’s second lunch-hour bombing near a police station in as many days. Cauca state security coordinator Edith Cabeza confirmed the police officer’s death in Thursday’s […]

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accepted the resignation of her minister of cities, who faces allegations of irregularities while in office. Mario Negromonte is the eighth member of Rousseff ’s Cabinet to step down. The office of the presidency said in a brief statement that Negromonte submitted his resignation on Thursday […]

LONDON ( AP) — Prince William arrived in the Falkland Islands on Thursday for a six-week deployment as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, British officials said, amid an escalating sovereignty dispute with Argentina over the territory. The Ministry of Defense confirmed that William, known in the service as Flight Lt. Wales, landed on the […]

EL CERCADO, Mexico (AP) — The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violenceplagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday to the Texas couple who were discovered strangled in their home. More than a dozen mourners passed to view the open […]

YREKA, Calif. ( AP) — Investigators in a California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the county courthouse’s $3 million historical collection as residents lamented the loss of an important piece of their cultural heritage. Thieves smashed a lobby display case and stole the gold from the Siskiyou […]

LONDON (AP) — Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults — long considered the least susceptible — a new study suggests. Malaria cases and deaths have been dropping since 2004, due largely to big campaigns to distribute bednets, spray […]

NEW YORK ( AP) — A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency. Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a Bangladeshi passenger’s jacket […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Bernanke defended the Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three years, during a contentious hearing before federal lawmakers. The Fed chairman told the House Budget Committee on Thursday that the central bank’s plan is an appropriate step to combat high unemployment while inflation is […]

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine both took precautions today to protect homeless people, scores of whom have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during its brutal cold snap. As the death toll from the weeklong tragedy rose to at least 169 today, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of […]