Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto meets with people affected by Tropical Storm Manuel in the Pacific coast city of Acapulco. See above story. Presidencia de Mexico / Associated Press
Acapulco, Mexico: Tourists stranded; death toll 38 in Mexico storms
Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists stranded by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport.
The death toll rose to 38 from the combined punch of Tropical Storm Manuel, which hit Acapulco and hundreds of miles of Mexico's Pacific Coast, and Hurricane Ingrid, which battered the Gulf Coast.
As many as 60,000 tourists found themselves stranded in Acapulco, with the airport flooded and highways blocked by landslides and flooding caused by Manuel.
While many hotels were operating normally, many of the outlying neighborhoods were without water or power.
Cairo: Muslim Brotherhood spokesman arrested
Egyptian police arrested the main English-language spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday along with other senior members of the group, all charged with inciting violence, state media and a security official said.
Gehad el-Haddad had emerged has one of the group's most well-known faces, appearing regularly in foreign media to defend the Brotherhood's policies during Mohammed Morsi's year as president and following Morsi's July 3 ouster by the military. His father, Essam el-Haddad, was a senior foreign policy aid to Morsi and has been in detention with Morsi since the coup.
Several thousand Brotherhood members and other Islamist backers of Morsi have been arrested in the past month.
Madrid: Spanish city seeks lottery winner who lost ticket
A Spanish city is seeking a missing millionaire.
Somebody bought a lottery ticket in the northern city of La Coruna that won $6.3 million - but lost the ticket in the shop. After failed attempts to track the winner, the city is making a public plea for the buyer to step forward. Anybody trying to claim the prize will have to prove knowing where and when the ticket was purchased.
The ticket for the June 30, 2012, drawing was found in one of the city's lottery agency outlets by another customer, who handed it to the manager of the store. The manager informed authorities, who are now publicizing the story to get leads.
Canberra, Australia: Australia's new prime minister takes office
Tony Abbott was sworn in Wednesday as Australia's new prime minister, 11 days after he led his conservative opposition to a crushing election victory.
Abbott was the first of 42 government executives to be sworn in by Governor General Quentin Bryce at a ceremony in the capital Canberra. He has been criticized for including only one woman in his 19-member Cabinet, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Abbott's party defeated former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's center-left Labor Party on Sept. 7 elections.
Abbott has already announced that Australia's contentious new policy on asylum seekers begins this week.
Kampala, Uganda: African Union to debate ICC exit amid Kenya trial
An upcoming summit of the African Union will debate the possible exit of some African countries from the International Criminal Court, Uganda's deputy foreign minister said Tuesday as the trial of Kenya's deputy president proceeded at The Hague.
Okello Oryem said that Uganda, whose president has questioned the ICC's credibility, would be compelled to quit the Rome Statute that created the court if a "summit-level" recommendation is made in solidarity with the leaders of Kenya who face criminal charges at The Hague over their alleged roles in post-election violence that killed more than 1,000 people in 2007-08. They face charges of crimes against humanity, which they deny having committed. The ICC has come under strong criticism from some African leaders who say it disproportionately targets Africans.
US & World
Emergency flights began arriving in Acapulco on Tuesday to evacuate some of the thousands of tourists stranded by flooding and landslides that shut down the highway to Mexico City and swamped the international airport.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, concluding the case had been tainted by "grotesque prosecutorial misconduct."
