JOS, Nigeria (AP) — Many schools around Nigeria closed today to protest the abductions of schoolgirls by Boko Haram, the government’s failure to rescue them and the killings of scores of teachers by the Islamic extremists, as family and friends searched mortuaries and hospitals for people missing since two huge bombs blew up two days […]

URUMQI, China (AP) — Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives at a busy street market in China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang today, killing 31 people and injuring more than 90, local officials said. The attack in the city of Urumqi was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents […]

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An American climber said he fell into a crevasse on a Himalayan mountain in Nepal but managed to crawl to his tent despite broken ribs and an arm before being rescued the next morning. John All of Western Kentucky University said today he thought he was going to die after falling […]