LAWRENCE, Mass. -- Police in Lawrence, Mass., say a toddler who fell 40 feet from an open window owes her life to two men who caught her before she hit the ground. Robert Lemire, 45, and Alex Day, 23, bolted toward Caliah Clark from separate sides of the street as she dangled Sunday from a third-story apartment with two children trying to pull her inside, The (Lawrence, Mass.) Eagle Tribune reported reported. When she fell, Day caught ... [full story]

RIVERHEAD, N.Y.-- Members of the Bethesda Wesleyan Church in Greenlawn, N.Y., say they want an Evangelical Christian denomination to reopen their religious facility. Church members gathered in front of the Greenlawn church Sunday to offer prayers that Wesleyan Church International will decide to allow them to resume their religious practices in the chapel, Newsday said. "We want the church to be opened," founding church member Marie Armand said. "We don't want to be outside. Nobody understands this." "It ... [full story]

LEESBURG, Va. -- An estimated 200 men, women and children held a pre-dawn vigil to honor a Leesburg, Va., couple attacked during a routine morning stroll. Sunday's march was one week after retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. William Bennett, 57, was beaten to death and his wife, Cynthia, was found critically injured in a ditch, The Washington Post reported Monday. "We're taking our neighborhood back," said march organizer Beverly Bradford. "We're not going to be intimidated by ... [full story]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A group of Canadian Indian chiefs in northern Manitoba is asking for help at all levels to stem the flow of alcohol and drugs onto dry reservations. Among the requests made by the group of 30 reservations, 28 of which don't permit alcohol, is screening of passengers and baggage by a regional airline that services the area, the Winnipeg Free Press reported Monday. Grand Chief Sydney Garrioch said Perimeter Aviation has more than 200 ... [full story]

LONDON -- Leaders of the world's top 20 industrialized nations will try to develop a response to the global financial crisis when they meet in London this week. With discussions of stimulus spending and tougher, coordinated international regulation of markets expected to dominate the agenda, London's meeting is the latest effort of the Group of 20 financial and political leaders to deal with the crisis since they met in Washington in November, the EU Observer reported ... [full story]

BRUSSELS -- There won't be enough time between European parliamentary elections and a move to confirm a new European Commission president, Socialist critics say. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, leader of the European Socialist Party and former Danish prime minister, told the French newspaper Le Monde over the weekend that a push by European Union heads of state to confirm a new EC president only a month after the June 4-7 elections doesn't allow enough time for debate, ... [full story]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The death toll rose to six Monday in an apparent murder-suicide in a home in California's Silicon Valley, police said. Santa Clara, Calif., Police Lt. Phil Cooke said an infant girl found wounded in the home Sunday night died at a hospital while a seventh victim remained hospitalized. The identities of the victims weren't released; however the San Francisco Chronicle said they were believed to be members of the family that resided in ... [full story]

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Authorities in Indonesia say the chairman of the Aceh Sabululssalam Party escaped injury Monday when a grenade tossed at his house failed to fully detonate. Alimuddin Jabat and his family were at their home in Indonesia's Aceh Province when the grenade hit, damaging the roof and several lamps, The Jakarta Post reported. Jabat's son, Mulyadi, chased two attackers who were riding a motorcycle but couldn't keep up with them, said Nurdin Ramli, the ... [full story]

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu has selected three Likud Party members of the Knesset for his Cabinet, officials said Monday. Michael Eitan and Yossi Peled were named ministers without portfolios while Moshe Kahlon was named sole minister for communications, The Jerusalem Post reported. Peled was also told he would have a seat on Israel's Security Cabinet while Eitan was given the additional duties of improving services for citizens, computerization and the Internet, the newspaper said. ... [full story]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Trials of Khmer Rouge officials began Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 30 years after the end of the vicious communist reign that left 1.7 million people dead. The first defendant in the tribunal, Kaing Guek Eav, 66, addressed the court Monday, identifying himself with his name and various aliases, The New York Times reported. He is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes and various crimes under Cambodian law, including murder. His trial ... [full story]