AP - An avalanche struck an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains, killing at least two people and leaving an unknown number missing at an annual gathering best known for its party atmosphere and stunt riding.

Reuters - Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Mexico's most violent border city were murdered, police said on Sunday, prompting U.S. President Barack Obama to respond with outrage and sadness.

AP - The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland.

Adam Johnson's injury-time equaliser salvages a vital point for Manchester City in their bid to finish fourth in the Premier League.

Authorities recovered eight explosive-laden vests and three rockets in Kandahar on Sunday, indicating that the series of deadly explosions that rocked the southern province a day earlier were an organized attack, the interior ministry said.

Two French hostages seized in the Central African Republic in November have been freed, the French foreign minister says.

An avalanche hits an unauthorised snowmobile rally in Canada, killing at least two people and triggering a search.

A drive-by shooting in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, claims the lives of three people associated with the U.S. consulate there.

The top Republican in the House and a senior White House adviser on Sunday debated a plan for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the terrorism suspects held there onto American soil.

The U.K.'s Liberal Democrats moved to calm investors' fears of a rudderless government following the next election, after two newspaper opinion polls suggested that neither the ruling Labour party nor the main opposition Conservative party would have enough seats to rule on its own.

Tens of thousands of protesters flowed into Bangkok, setting up what organizers say will be several days of protests to force Thailand's army-backed government to call fresh elections.

The Taliban struck Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city and the target of coming U.S. military operations, with a series of bombings over the weekend, killing at least 35 people, many of them police officers.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has played down talk of a Lib Dem role in a coalition government, at the spring party conference in Birmingham.

Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has said "the stakes are incredibly high" over the threatened strike action by British Airways staff.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the Thai capital, Bangkok, for a big rally demanding that the government calls new elections.