COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio driver who made an online video confessing to causing a fatal wrong-way crash after drinking heavily is expected back in court today ahead of a possible guilty plea. A judge didn’t allow Matthew Cordle to go ahead with a plea Tuesday, saying his lawyers didn’t follow court procedures for […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed today to restart operations at a jointly run factory park that Pyongyang shut down in April during a torrent of threats, the latest sign of easing animosity between the rivals. Wariness, however, still lingers in Seoul and Washington over Pyongyang’s springtime provocations, which included warnings […]

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts touched down to Earth early today after undocking from the International Space Station following 166 days in space. American Chris Cassidy and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin emerged from the capsule in smiles on an unusually sunny day in Kazakhstan. Live coverage from NASA, the […]

LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that unemployment in the U.K. fell by 24,000 people between May and July to 2.49 million, providing further evidence that Europe’s third-largest economy is gaining traction. The Office for National Statistics also said today that the country’s unemployment rate declined to 7.7 percent from 7.8 percent, and nearer to […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Security officials say a powerful explosion has caused serious damage to Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the coastal city of Benghazi. Today’s blast also damaged the building next door housing the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank. The officials said several passers-by were slightly injured by the […]

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — A suicide bomber today rammed his explosives-laden car into the military intelligence headquarters in a border town in Egypt’s volatile Sinai, killing at least three soldiers and wounding 20 people, security officials said. The attack in the town of Rafah nudged the violence in the strategic Sinai Peninsula closer to a […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — Saying their crime shocked the conscience of India, the prosecutor in the fatal New Delhi gang rape called today for all four convicted rapists to be hanged, while one of the defendants shouted out his innocence as police drove him into the courthouse. It was not clear which of the four […]

DENVER (AP) — Colorado has become the first state in the country to adopt final rules for recreational marijuana businesses. The rules released Monday cover licensing, tracking, packaging and advertising. According to the Denver Post, the first stores are expected to open around Jan. 1.