OBAMA-CLIMATE

PARIS (AP) — President Barack Obama says that American leadership is helping make gains in the global fight against climate change as he tried to reassure world leaders assembling for a historic conference in Paris that the U.S. can deliver on its own commitments. 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD-SHOOTING

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The suspected gunman in a deadly shooting at a women's health clinic that offers abortions said "no more baby parts" after his arrest, a law enforcement official says. 

EMBATTLED PLANNED PARENTHOOD

NEW YORK (AP) — Planned Parenthood deals daily with some of America's most contentious issues, and is well accustomed to receiving verbal threats as a leading defender of abortion rights and comprehensive sex education. Some of the organization's supporters say a deadly shooting at its clinic in Colorado Springs shows that the vitriolic rhetoric could be inspiring actual violence. 

COLOMBIA-DRAFT DEBATE

SACHICA, Colombia — As the government nears peace with the main leftist insurgency, debate is rising over whether Colombia still needs a big army — and conscription, with its inordinate impact on the poor that critics say fuels the inequality at the heart of the long conflict. 

BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING

BOSTON — A judge is set to hear arguments on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's request for a new trial this week.

BRAZIL-DAM BURST-PHOTO GALLERY

BENTO RODRIGUES, Brazil — This village used to be home to 600 people. Then a dam at a nearby mine burst and unleashed a tsunami of mud that flattened houses, uprooted trees and tossed cars, leaving the hamlet a ghost town. 

BRAZIL-BIRTH DEFECTS

RIO DE JANEIRO — The dengue-like Zika virus has been linked for the first time to cases of babies being born with small heads, or microcephaly, Brazil's government says. 

FERGUSON-MICHAEL BROWN'S GRAVE

NORMANDY, Missouri — Michael Brown once told an uncle that the world one day would know his name, and he was right. But 15 months after the black 18-year-old's killing by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked a national protest movement over the treatment of blacks by U.S. law enforcement, he lies buried in relative obscurity.