Conservative Felipe Calderón won Mexico’s presidential election by a very slim margin late Thursday night. His main opponent, the Democratic Revolutionary Party’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has demanded a recount. The winner may be decided in court. Calderón received 35.88 percent of the vote to Obrador’s 35.31 percent, a difference of 200,000 votes.

A plot to blow up a New York Tunnel was foiled when authorities arrested one of the conspirators in Lebanon, officials say. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) say the plot was still in its early stages. The man involved was found through intercepted Internet conversations.

The United Kingdom held two minutes of silence at noon today to mark the first anniversary of the London bombings in which 52 people were killed.

Fighting in Gaza has intensified, and last night Hamas ordered its security forces to begin fighting against Israeli soldiers. Twenty-three Palestinians and one Israeli have been killed. "Confront this incursion and cowardly Zionist aggression," Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyyam told the security forces. In the past, militants, not the state security forces, have usually been the ones fighting the Israeli army.

The European Union says talks with Iran are off to a “good start” and that they should have a “substantial response” from the country by Tuesday. No details on the content of the negotiations were revealed.