ITALY-KNOX

ROME — Amanda Knox, who maintained that she and her former Italian boyfriend were innocent in her British roommate's murder through multiple trials and nearly four years in jail, is vindicated when Italy's highest court threw out their convictions once and for all. 

AP EXPLAINS-JAPANESE SPEECH TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON — Washington honors America's closest friends by inviting their leaders to address a joint meeting of Congress. But before House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner invited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, no Japanese leaders had been invited. 

CLINTON-EMAILS

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton wiped her email server "clean," permanently deleting all emails from it, the Republican chairman of a House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, says. Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, said Gowdy was looking in the wrong place. 

MEXICO-CLIMATE CHANGE

MEXICO CITY — Mexico becomes the first developing nation to submit pollutant reduction goals for next fall's Paris climate change talks, pledging to cut greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutants 25 percent by 2030. 

CHILE-FLOODS

SANTIAGO, Chile — Communities in Chile's northern desert region dig houses and cars out of the mud and work to reopen roads after floods pummel several cities and leave nine people dead. 

ANTARCTICA-ENTICING AND FORBIDDING-PHOTO GALLERY

DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctica — The waddling hordes of penguins are a big attraction for tourists in Antarctica, yet deep in the oceans and across the frozen continent is another side of Antarctica both forbidding and mysterious. With photo gallery by Natacha Pisarenko.