LONDON (AP) — About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women. In a series of papers released on Thursday by the World Health Organization and others, experts estimated nearly 40 percent of women killed worldwide […]

GROZNY, Russia (AP) — The body of a man killed while being questioned in the U.S. about ties to a Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been buried in his native Chechnya nearly a month after his death. Ibragim Todashev was fatally shot May 22 in Florida while being questioned by an FBI agent and two […]

MONTREAL, Quebec (AP) — Quebec provincial police said Thursday that two people were killed in a massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse that rocked an area west of Montreal, leaving a huge cloud of smoke visible for miles. A series of explosions subsequently leapt from the charred building after the initial blast at B.E.M. Fireworks […]

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. In his 40 years behind the wheel of the Geneva Lake mailboat, Capt. Neill Frame has seen some dirty tricks played on the mailboat jumpers — the young employees who jump from boat to dock to deliver summer mail. One resident ran a garden hose from the house, down to the pier […]

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Starting in the 1970s, Washington state bridge inspectors made note of evidence that large loads were clipping the Interstate 5 span that recently collapsed into the Skagit River. By the middle of last year, an inspector identified eight different points on the bridge that had high-load damage, including some portions in […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi- UFJ Ltd. will pay $250 million to the state of New York for laundering billions of dollars in transactions that violated economic sanctions against countries including Iran, Sudan, and Myanmar, New York financial regulators said Thursday. The state’s Department of Financial Services said the bank agreed […]