Renewed Congo fighting...Anger in Haiti...Mayan afterworld

KIBATI, Congo (AP) Congolese soldiers and rebels are all but face-to-face in renewed violence near the eastern provincial capital of Goma. The fighting has doctors treating a cholera outbreak concerned of en epidemic if patients flee and scatter.

PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) Angry onlookers at the site of a school building collapse are grumbling about workers going slow to pad their pay. The angry crowd is demanding they be allowed to help search for victims of a disaster that killed at least 88 people.

Washington (AP) The power of the president to issue executive orders to get things done faster could make an immediate impact under Barack Obama. His transition chief tells "Fox News Sunday" that reversals of Bush administration policies on matters like stem cell research are possible.

SHANNON, Ireland (AP) The families of American victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland are beginning to get Libyan compensation. The U.S. says it has begun transferring more than $500 million from Libya.

TZIBICHEN CENOTE, Mexico (AP) A Mexican archaeologist says he's explored a series of caves where the Maya may have tried to depict the legendary and terrifying road to the underworld. The explorer used long forgotten testimony from the Spanish inquisition to identify a network of underground chambers, roads and temples beneath farmland and forest on the Yucatan peninsula.

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