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July's presidential election left the nation almost equally divided between a leftist who wants to renegotiate NAFTA to protect farmers, and a conservative who wants to encourage more free trade deals. But treaties alone aren't the only source of Mexico's economic woes.

Many Mexicans living abroad cast votes in Sunday's election. This was the first national election in Mexico that accepted absentee ballots. But poor planning and advertising stymied the effort.

U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican, is withdrawing his bid to seek re-election. Questions have been raised about Ney's connections to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. A Ney spokesman said the congressman would serve out the remainder of his term.

The accidental derailment of a subway train kills at least 30 people in Valencia, Spain. The initial indication is that the train was traveling too fast and lost a wheel. The accident occurred at the 1 p.m. rush hour, when Spanish workers return home for lunch.

One year ago today, four suicide bombs killed 52 people on the London transport system. Services will commemorate the anniversaries of the tragedies in the British capital, but to most British civilians, the attacks haven't led to an "at-war" mentality.

Iran has missed a July 5 deadline to accept a U.N. package of incentives offered in exchange for a suspension of its uranium enrichment program. Under Secretary of Political Affairs Nicholas Burns says Iran is "profoundly isolated" right now, and the U.N. offer provides a way out.

On Sept. 11, 2001, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) recorded the voices of military airspace controllers after planes crashed into the World Trade Center. Those tapes, previously withheld from the public, show an air traffic control system in disarray.

Novelist Susan Straight's new novel, A Million Nightingales, was shaped by historical documents that showed a South Carolina owned her own child in the 1800s.

Britain remains on its highest state of alert, a day after the arrest of 24 people suspected of plotting to blow up a number of airplanes heading to the United States. As part of the investigation into the alleged plot, the Bank of England froze the assets of 19 of the suspects.

Thursday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff briefed the media about a suspected British terror plot, in which 21 suspects have been arrested in Great Britain.