FERGUSON

FERGUSON, Missouri - The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown has resigned. 

MEXICO-SEIZED BUSES

TIXTLA, Mexico - The disappearance of 43 students from the rural teachers college in Tixtla has drawn worldwide notice, yet few have paid much attention to the three dozen or more bus drivers camped out on the school's soccer field. They say they are being held captive to chauffeur activists around in their commandeered buses. By Jacobo G. Garcia and Mark Stevenson. 

URUGUAY-ELECTION

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Ruling party candidate and former president Tabare Vazquez is heavily favored to win Uruguay's runoff election Sunday on the back of a strong economy, a result that would help secure the country's pioneering marijuana laws. 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-ABORTION

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - President Danilo Medina is urging Dominican legislators to decriminalize abortions if a woman's life is at risk or in cases of rape, incest or fetus malformation. 

RUSSIAN GAYS-ASYLUM

NEW YORK - Had he stayed in Russia, Andrew Mironov would be settling into a stable job with an oil company, likely with a newly awarded doctoral degree in electrical engineering. Instead, he faces an uncertain future in New York City as one of scores of Russian gays seeking asylum in the United States because of hostility and harassment in their homeland.