A barrage of deadly suicide attacks killed at least 40 people and wounded hundreds more in Kabul on Friday, ending a two-month-long lull in major terrorist strikes in the capital, according to Afghan officials. It was the deadliest day in Kabul so far this year. … [Read more...]

New York City officials say 10 people have died in the outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease centered in the South Bronx, and a total of 100 cases have been diagnosed. The disease is caused by breathing in mist contaminated by a certain bacteria. … [Read more...]

A French woman who was abducted in Yemen in February along with her translator has been freed and was on her way home on Friday. Isabelle Prime, 31, had been working in Yemen for the World Bank for about a year when she was kidnapped. … [Read more...]

Coal billionaire Chris Cline claims to control “more than three billion tons of coal reserves in Illinois and Central Appalachia.” On Thursday, his lawyer told Bloomberg News that he also controls Jasper Reserves LLC, a shell company that gave at least $1 million to Right to Rise USA, the super PAC working to elect former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) president in 2016. … [Read more...]

A gang armed with machetes has hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the start of the year, an activist group and police have said. … [Read more...]

A plume of orange-ish muck from million-gallon mine waste spill in Colorado was headed down river to New Mexico, prompting communities along the water route to take precautions until the sludge passes. … [Read more...]

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a woman died after being struck by a freight train early Friday west of Sand Springs. It happened at about 1:40 a.m. just east of the intersection of Maple Drive and Highway 51. … [Read more...]

An Afghan military helicopter crashed in a remote region of the southern Zabul province on Thursday, killing 17 people on board — 12 soldiers and five crew members, officials said. President Ashraf Ghani offered his condolences to the families of those killed, while the Taliban claimed they had shot down the aircraft. … [Read more...]

Eighty-eight feet is a long way down and, yet, some extreme divers take the plunge. Gary Hunt, 31, of Great Britain, took the top title at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, diving off the equivalent height of a nine-story building into the Kazanka River below. … [Read more...]

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed concern Thursday that massive flooding in much of the country might be used as a pretext to undermine November's general election. … [Read more...]