
	Haiti minds still struggle PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. Full Story Report: Chinese envoy to visit North Korea SEOUL, South Korea -- A senior Chinese official is traveling to North Korea on Saturday, a news report said, in what is seen as a mission to jump-start stalled international talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs. Full Story U.S.commits to recover all bodies from Haiti hotel PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- An hour before the earthquake struck, 19-year-old Britney Gengel phoned her mother in Massachusetts, bursting with joy: She had found her calling on a college trip to help orphans in Haiti. Full Story Parents willingly gave kids to Baptists CALLEBAS, Haiti (AP) -- Desperate parents in this struggling village perched above Haiti’s earthquake-flattened capital said they gave their children away willingly, trusting the American missionaries who promised to take them to a better life. Full Story News in Brief Defense: Time to end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ban WASHINGTON (AP) -- It’s time to repeal the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy and allow gay troops to serve openly for the first time in history, the nation’s top defense officials declared Tuesday, with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaiming that service members should Full Story PM: Baptists knew not to remove kids PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti’s prime minister said Monday that 10 Americans who tried to take a busload of undocumented Haitian children out of the country knew that "what they were doing was wrong," and could be prosecuted in the United States. Full Story Chaos eases as Haiti food line focuses on women PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law -- who quickly disappeared behind the faded leopard-print sheets that are the walls of their makeshift home on the crowded turf of Haiti’s National Stadium. Full Story At UN, Israel defends Gaza actions UNITED NATIONS -- Israel submitted its response Friday to a U. Full Story NATO: 3 Americans killed in Afghanistan KABUL -- Two U.S. service members and one U.S. employee were killed Friday in eastern Afghanistan, pushing the American death toll this month to 29. Full Story Former PM Blair offers justification for Iraq war LONDON -- An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a British panel investigating the war that the Sept. Full Story U.S. growth surprise sends world stocks higher LONDON -- European stock markets closed higher Friday after data showed the U. Full Story Haitians tire of waiting, begin their own rebuilding PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Defying pleas to wait for Haiti’s reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake. Full Story World in Brief Obama, GOP lawmakers exchange barbs, ideas in rare face-to-face confrontation BALTIMORE (AP) -- In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt. Full Story Rescued girl’s mom never gave up hope PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- She is amazing her doctors, the 16-year-old choir girl who came close to dying but wouldn’t in the crumbled concrete graveyard of Port-au-Prince. Full Story Rescuers pull girl from rubble PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- French rescuers pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home near the destroyed St. Full Story