Lawyer: Iranian Supreme Leader to weigh in on pastor’s execution

The possible hanging of an Iranian pastor, who may face execution for refusing to recant his Christian beliefs, reached the highest levels of the Iranian government over the weekend with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei being asked for his opinion on the possible death sentence.
Mohammad Dadkhah, attorney for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, told CNN [...]

Broward mayor, Gov. Rick Scott going on trade mission to Brazil

 
t might seem like an unlikely traveling pair: Broward’s liberal mayor and the state’s conservative governor.
But Broward commissioners agreed this week to spend $4,350 to send Mayor Sue Gunzburger to Brazil on a trade mission with Gov. Rick Scott and his economic development team.
That’s despite concerns he would ice Broward’s mayor out of high-level [...]

Bin Laden relatives want probe and proof of death

Relatives of Osama bin Laden want proof that the terrorist leader is dead and are calling for an investigation into how he was killed, according to Jean Sasson, an author who helped one of bin Laden’s sons write a memoir.
“They just really want some answers, and they would just really like [...]

The focus will be business when Obama arrives in Brasilia

Economic opportunities between the United States and Brazil will be the focus of the first leg of President Barack Obama’s trip to Latin America

U.S. and Brazilian security officers inspect an area where President Barack Obama is expected to visit in the slum Cidade de Deus, or City of God, in Rio [...]

Brazil flooding reportedly claims 260 lives

Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, CNN affiliate TV Record reported Wednesday.
The greatest damage was in a cluster of towns in a mountainous area northeast of the city of Rio from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, where [...]

Report: Brazil police say brothers drugged father, buried him alive

Two brothers were charged with killing their father, a local Afro-Brazilian religious leader, by knocking him out with sleeping pills and then burying him alive, investigators told a Brazilian news website.
Antonio Valente Filho, chief of police of Timon, in Maranhao state, told Globo TV’s G1 website that the brothers, ages [...]

Childhood obesity can begin as early as 9 months of age, researchers find

Everyone loves a roly-poly baby. Still, there is such a thing as an overweight infant, and obese babies — even those as young as 9 months — are predisposed to being obese later in life, researchers say in Friday’s issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Childhood obesity is a growing public [...]