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Ex-Mozambique leader wins African governance prize

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Mozambique's former president was honored Monday by Africa's elite with a prize of more than $5 million designed to promote good governance in a continent often blighted by misrule. More »

Life still grim in French suburbs, despite pledges

PARIS - Life has not improved for the inhabitants of France's poor, ethnically diverse suburbs since the riots of 2005, despite millions of euros in cash pledges and President Nicolas Sarkozy's election promises. More »

Katrina-damaged cars now flood foreign auto markets

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The bathtub ring of mold on the ceiling of Colleen McGaw's Mini Cooper marks how high Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters rose inside the sporty red coupe. More »

Ian Smith, ex-PM of Rhodesia, dies at 88

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died. He was 88. More »