AP - Even with his team on a five-game losing streak, Mets manager Willie Randolph was able to joke about his job status.

Reuters - Lebanon's parliament is set to vote in army chief General Michel Suleiman as the country's 11th president on Sunday, filling a post left vacant for six months by a crisis that threatened a new civil war.

AP - After a nearly 10-month journey, a NASA spacecraft will land softly Sunday on the northern polar region of Mars, if all goes as planned.

AFP - Myanmar's failure to grant foreign aid workers unfettered access to cyclone devastated areas threatened Sunday to overshadow a vital conference aimed at securing billions of dollars for reconstruction.

AP - A tour helicopter crashed in rainy weather on an island off the Southern California coast Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others, a county sheriff's deputy said.

AP - Long hours, hard work and scant hope of succeeding may be the cause of Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest case of political tone-deafness.

AP - A British teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming "Harry Potter" film was stabbed to death during a brawl in London on Saturday, police said.

AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Saturday that al-Qaida's network in the country has never been closer to defeat, and he praised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his moves to rein in Shiite and Sunni militant groups.

Reuters - Democratic White House candidates made rare campaign stops in Puerto Rico on Saturday as Hillary Clinton's uphill challenge to secure the nomination was made even harder by controversy over her references to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy.

AP - The cracking of rifle fire silenced the twittering blue jays, blackbirds and killdeer.