Peace was temporarily declared between military officials and insurgents during the boxing match involving a Filipino superfeatherweight boxing champion.

Manny Pacquiao squared off with Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera in a World Boxing Council International extravaganza.

A Mexican priest who killed his secret son so his superiors wouldn't find out he had a child has been sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Prosecutors said on Thursday that Rev. Dagoberto Valle Arriaga had confessed to killing his son two years ago, but didn't say how old the son was.

A Texas warehouse storing over a ton of marijuana caught ablaze yesterday. Firefighters arriving on the scene reportedly got stoned, possibly slowing down efforts to quell the fire.

It took over half of the volunteers firefighters from Edinburg's three departments, 1,000 gallons of water and five gallons of chemical suppressant to extinguish the blaze, Fire Chief Shawn Snider told the AP.

An 81-year-old man has taken up a tough mission for his age to be able to help an aid organization for homeless people. Bill Anderson of Yuma will be bicycling around Arizona's perimeter; a 2,000-mile trek that he expects will take two weeks to cover.

According to Anderson his biking tour is dedicated to raise awareness about hunger and homelessness, while collecting donations from volunteers on the way.

Zocalo square, the famous central town plaza of Mexico City, is all set to become the venue for Spencer Tunick's biggest ever nude photo shoot. The New Yorker completed his largest photo to date by photographing 7000 naked Spaniards in Barcelona in 2003, but the upcoming photo shoot scheduled for May 6 is expected to break that record.

Tunick is best known for his photographs that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations.