Iran: Enrichment to start Tuesday

Iran will inform the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it will begin enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday, the country’s atomic chief said.

The State Department said Monday it is working with the Department of Homeland Security and the Haitian government on processing nearly 300 cases of Americans who are waiting to adopt Haitian children.

The body of one of Iraq’s top Shiite leaders arrived Friday morning in Baghdad amid tight security two days after his death of lung cancer.

Nearly two decades after the killing of toddler James Bulger by two 10-year-old boys, what remains one of Britain’s most notorious child murders this week proved once again it has the power to shock and outrage.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried Saturday to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, saying she’d like to see talks begin “as soon as possible.”

South Korean pop star Rain, who stars in “Ninja Assassin,” releasing nationwide on Wednesday, has all the trimmings of an international superstar in the making.

Philippine marines killed six suspected militants Sunday in an assault in the country’s restive southwest, the military said.

Iraqi lawmakers on Sunday plan to take another shot at ending the impasse over a proposed election law — a political crisis sparked by the veto of a newly passed measure this week by one of the country’s leaders.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was visiting Haiti on Wednesday, about five weeks after an earthquake killed at least 212,000 people in the former French colony.

All 36 crew members of a Spanish fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates more than a month ago have been freed along with their vessel, the Spanish prime minister said Tuesday.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets and a few hundred were arrested in Copenhagen Saturday, as they demanded a climate-change agreement that would curb greenhouse gas emissions and aid developing countries.

The United States made no deal with North Korea for the release of American Robert Park, a State Department spokesman said Friday.

Iran on Wednesday submitted its latest package of proposals to the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members, plus Germany, according to Iran’s government-funded Press TV.

Tropical Storm Ida unleashed heavy rains as it neared Nicaragua’s coast early Thursday, with forecasters warning that it could make landfall in a few hours.

A U.N. special investigator on torture said he was denied entry into Zimbabwe on Wednesday for an eight-day trip to look into alleged attacks against opposition party members.

Sende Sencil, age 9, is a “restavec,” a Haitian whose parents have sent her to live with another family for whom she does household chores. The United Nations calls it a form of slavery. CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen tells Sende’s story.