AFP - Fresh rains halted rescue efforts on Monday in Guatemala, where a series of landslides have killed 45 people and caused half a billion dollars in damage, officials said.

AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides raise Guatemala's official death toll to 45 after days of torrential rains.

AP - Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday.