SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — NFL opening day excitement was tarnished with the death of one fan who fell from a pedestrian overpass outside the big game in San Francisco, and injuries to two others from falls inside the Indianapolis stadium. Early indications suggest 32-year-old Kevin Hayes of Hayward fell accidentally, San Francisco Police Chief Greg […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A severely disabled 3-year-old girl weighed just 11 pounds when she died Monday, and police in Philadelphia called her death a homicide. Nathalyz Rivera was found unresponsive inside the family’s bug-infested home by her father around midnight, Homicide Capt. James Clark. The girl was driven to a hospital where she was pronounced […]

MILTON, W.Va. (AP) — Who says superheroes aren’t real? When a West Virginia home caught fire, trapping a kitten, it was Batman and Captain America to the rescue. John Buckland, dressed as Batman, and Troy Marcum, dressed as Captain America, saw smoke at a house nearby when they were entertaining children as part of their […]

MOSCOW Syria said today it has accepted Russia’s proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said today after meeting with Russian parliament speaker that his government quickly “agreed to the Russian initiative.” Al-Moallem added that Syria did so to “uproot U.S. aggression.” His statement sounded […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court convicted four men today in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, an attack that set off waves of protests and gave voice to years of anger over the treatment of women. The men were convicted on all the counts against […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a bus that took a detour to avoid one roadside bomb instead hit another in a central province, killing seven people, including three children. Assadullah Ensafi says the explosion occurred today in the Muqur district of Ghazni province. He says 17 people were injured in the explosion. […]

BEIJING (AP) — A 6-yearold Chinese boy whose eyes were gouged out was receiving implants at a hospital today in southern China from a Hong Kong surgeon who volunteered his services after learning about the brutal attack. The implants are a precursor to fitting Guo Bin — known as Bin Bin — with prosthetic eyes […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president plans to use this month’s U.N. General Assembly in New York to reach out to world leaders about possibly restarting nuclear talks, the official IRNA news agency reported today. IRNA quoted President Hasan Rouhani as saying that he could seek dialogue to try to get the negotiations back on […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Militants beheaded three members of an anti-Taliban militia in northwestern Pakistan and kidnapped three others, a government official said today. Dozens of militants took part in the attack Monday in the Khyber tribal area, said Iqbal Khan, a government administrator in the nearby city of Peshawar. Authorities are investigating which militant […]