A month later, still overwhelmed

Searching the rubble.

Relief efforts have only scratched the surface of quake-stricken Haiti's needs. And some worry that international help will not be around for the long haul.

Britain's losses in Afghanistan pass Falklands toll

Three British soldiers died in southern Afghanistan, officials announced Monday, raising Britain's death toll in the conflict to 256, exceeding by one the number of Britons lost in the Falklands war of 1982.

U.S. contractor abducted in Iraq

The Pentagon has acknowledged that an American contractor for the Defense Department is missing in Baghdad, an apparent confirmation of a Shiite militant group's claim last week that it abducted an American in Baghdad in January.

World/nation briefs

Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested an opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's grip on power. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's decision follows his sweeping victory at the polls last month over his former army chief, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who had defected to the opposition after helping to end the country's quarter-century civil war. Fonseka was arrested by the military on Monday on sedition charges.

Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125

Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.

Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days

A rice vendor may have lived under the rubble of a flea market for 27 days with little more than water and possibly fruit, a doctor said Tuesday, in what would be a dramatic tale of survival four weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake.