Offbeat: 4-year-old girl rides US bus searching for 3 a.m. snack

A four-year-old Philadelphia girl has been returned safely to her parents after slipping out of her house at 3 a.m. and getting on a transit bus in search of a

The Buzz: Wild rhino enters Nepal city, killing 1 and injuring several

A wild rhino has entered a city in southern Nepal, killing a woman and injuring several other people. Government administrator Ram Prasad Thapaliya says the rhino entered Hetauda yesterday, terrorizing

Media | Killing of journalists should be a war crime

The president and CEO of The Associated Press called yesterday for changes to international laws that would make it a war crime to kill journalists or take them hostage. Gary Pruitt

World Briefs

CHINA The U.S. stood firm on rejecting membership in a new China-led infrastructure bank, citing concerns it will fall short of international standards even as the rest of the world’s

Germanwings Tragedy | Prosecutors: Co-pilot treated for suicidal tendencies

  The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed into the French Alps last week had received treatment for suicidal tendencies several years ago, prosecutors said yesterday. Duesseldorf prosecutors say co-pilot Andreas

3 generations, all named Emma, die in France crash

From a lush suburban valley near bustling Barcelona, three generations of a well-heeled family set off last week for a fun trip to Manchester, England: 12-year-­old Emma Solera Pardo, her

Nigeria | US, UK: Signs of political interference in election

The United States and Britain said yesterday here are signs that the vote counting for Nigeria's presidential election may be subverted by "deliberate political interference." A joint statement says the countries

This Day in History: 1953 Queen Mary laid to rest in Windsor

The former Queen’s body was brought by car from London to Windsor in the early hours of this morning. It had lain-in-state at Westminster Hall from 29 to 30 March

Offbeat: Grandma is a centerfold: Rest home bares all for calendar

Miss March, who’s 88, wears a green top hat and not much else in the calendar from Pleasant Pointe Assisted Living, and the centerfolds are two women in their 90s

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CHINA A flood in a shale mine in central China has left six miners dead, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua said the shale mine flooded Monday night, but the weekend report

Iran | Officials: nuke talks solving some issues, not others 

Iran may accept new constraints to its uranium enrichment program at nuclear talks but is pushing back on how long it must accept limits on technology it could use to

Tunisia | Leading suspect in museum attack killed 

  Tunisia’s prime minister said yesterday a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, as tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital to denounce extremist

Germanwings tragedy | Struggle to explain what motivated co-pilot in doomed flight 

A disgruntled worker shoots up a workplace. A student opens fire at a high school. A pilot crashes a planeload of people into a mountainside. There may never be a convincing

This Day in History: 1981 President Reagan is shot

Five to six shots were fired as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel where he had been addressing a union convention, about one mile from the White House. A man,

OFFBEAT: Airbnb becomes sponsor of 2016 Olympics in Rio

Rio de Janeiro’s hotel bed shortage was eased on Friday, as online home share startup Airbnb inked a deal to be the official “alternative accommodations” sponsor of the 2016 Olympic

Mexico sets 25 pct pollution cut by 2030 for climate talks

Mexico has become the first developing nation to submit pollutant reduction goals for next fall’s Paris climate change talks, pledging Friday to cut greenhouse gas and short-lived climate pollutants 25

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VIETNAM’s prime minister orders a swift investigation into a scaffolding collapse that killed 13 workers and injured dozens, while a unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group involved in the construction

The Buzz: Kenya’s president apologizes for government’s past wrongs

Kenya’s president has apologized to the Kenyan people for past wrongs committed both by his government and past regimes. President Uhuru Kenyatta told parliament during his state of the nation address

Illegal logging, fear haunt remote Peru village

Illegal logging persists unabated in this remote Amazon community where four indigenous leaders who resisted it were slain in September, and the fear remains palpable. Even a police post the government

Germanwings tragedy | French prosecutor: Co-pilot wanted to ‘destroy’ the plane 

As a frantic pilot pounded on the cockpit door and passengers screamed in panic, the Germanwings co-pilot “intentionally” sent Flight 9525 straight into the side of a mountain in the

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