Astronaut makes 'Space Oddity' music video aboard space station

In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?vKaOC9danxNo

Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.

• Madre Laura named Colombia’s first saint

Cuba

Cuba’s Ladies in White leader meets Pope Francis

Pope Francis exchanged a brief greeting Wednesday with Cuban dissident Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, in the Vatican at the end of a general audience held in St. Peter’s Square.

World Trade

Brazilian will be the first Latin American to head the WTO

Roberto Azevêdo, a career diplomat, will take the reins at a time when the world trading system is at a crossroads.

IMMIGRATION

Feds: Number of previously deported immigrants returning to U.S. is increasing

A growing number of people who had been deported are sneaking back into the U.S.

• Miami archdiocese launches citizenship initiative
• PolitiFact: Immigrants would get free cell phones under new bill, bloggers falsely claim

The Oppenheimer Report

Andres Oppenheimer: U.S., Europe take new step to crack down on ‘tax havens’

While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a potentially historic step — they launched a system to detect secret offshore bank accounts.

Paraguay

Paraguayans vote Sunday after a mud-slinging presidential campaign

The front-runners in Paraguay’s presidential race are Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party and Efraín Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party.

Business

Florida full of potential, African leader says

The prime minister of Namibia, a tiny country in Southern Africa, visited South Florida last week and hopes to build partnerships soon.