During a global celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Costa Rican officials announce a 50 percent drop in femicide cases.
Jobs. An end to corruption. A functional government. Reducing an astronomical murder rate. Hondurans have loaded a long wish list onto Sunday's elections.
The National Security Agency is facing scrutiny in the U.S. Congress and abroad over revelations that it spied on foreign leaders, broke into fiber-optic cables overseas and gathered emails and phone records of innocent people.
Heavily guarded polling stations, to which some 800 foreign election monitors were dispatched, closed at 5 p.m. local time after a one-hour extension. Now, post-vote maneuvering begins.
