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There's a lot at stake for the San Diego Unified School District next week. That's because three of the district's five school board members are up for reelection. A change in trustees could set the d

Four-out-of-eight San Diego City Council district seats are up for re-election this year. In District Three, Toni Atkins is stepping down due to term limits. Two liberal democrats are the front runner

Russia and its pro-Western neighbor Georgia are teetering on the edge of a military conflict over Georgia's separatist province Abkhazia. The self-styled republic is officially recognized by no one, but Moscow has kept it alive with economic support.

Just days before a World Cup qualifying match, Iraq has been suspended from the competition by FIFA, soccer's governing body. FIFA announced the one-year suspension after the Iraqi government disbanded all of the nation's sports governing bodies.

This year has been called the toughest ever for high school graduates seeking admission into selective colleges. The result is a lot of super-achieving students are ending up at their "safety" schools.

A large aftershock hit China's Sichuan province Sunday morning, rattling buildings as far away as Beijing. The tremor comes almost two weeks after the initial earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

The new Italian government announces measures to deal with the Naples garbage crisis, and to combat illegal immigration. The plans include declaring the dumps national strategic areas to be protected by the military and tighter scrutiny of immigrants.

Poor black South Africans have attacked poor black foreigners in and around Johannesburg who they say steal their jobs and commit crimes. At least 40 immigrants have been killed and thousands have fled to refugee shelters. Renee Montagne talks to Frans Cronje of the South African Institute of Race Relations about the outbreak of violence.

An immigration crackdown by Italian authorities has been accompanied by vigilante justice against the Roma — or gypsies — in Naples. Now the new right-wing government wants to create a special body to deal with the ethnic group.

The U.N. could use soldiers to get aid into Myanmar. But one expert says that's an idea that would require Security Council acquiescence from intervention-shy China, one of two countries that blocked a similar mission into Kosovo in 1999.