OTUMBA, Mexico (AP) – This is a place where every donkey will have it day – a small town just north of Mexico City that gives the beasts of burden a chance on May Day to kick up their hooves. The annual donkey fair in Otumba attracts up to 40,000 …

SHATI REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip (AP) – Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone. The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing …

SAN DIEGO (AP) – It’s not only drones and driverless cars that may become the norm someday – ocean-faring ships might also run without captains or crews. The Pentagon on Monday showed off the world’s largest unmanned surface vessel, a self-driving 132-foot ship able to travel up to 10,000 nautical …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Candelario Jimon Alonzo came to the U.S. dreaming of becoming something more than what seemed possible along the rutted roads of his hometown in Guatemala’s highlands. This was his chance: He could earn a U.S. high school education and eventually become a teacher. Instead, the 16-year-old …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – An American exchange student and her mother were rescued over the weekend in the New Zealand wilderness, where they were lost for five days after setting off on a day hike. A helicopter pilot spotted the large “help” signs they had made from fern fronds. …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced that Puerto Rico’s government will not make nearly $370 million in bond payments due Monday after a failure to restructure or find a political solution to the U.S. territory’s spiraling public debt crisis. Garcia said Sunday that he had …

BAGHDAD (AP) – Anti-government protesters disbanded at least temporarily Sunday from the heavily fortified Green Zone they had stormed a day earlier after the Islamic State group carried out its second major attack in Iraq in as many days – a pair of car bombs that killed more than 30 …

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – One of America’s largest troves of political and campaign memorabilia is headed for the auction block, spurring protests from some who do not want to see it divided up and sold to private collectors. The University of Hartford plans to hire an auction house and sell …