A gasoline truck overturns and explodes near Uganda's capital, killing 11

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — At least 11 people were killed Tuesday after a fuel truck exploded next to a highway in Uganda, police said. Two children were among the dead. The truck overturned after an accident and later exploded in a town just outside Kampala, the capital, police...

Susan Smith is up for parole 30 years after drowning her kids in a South Carolina lake

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Susan Smith will be up for parole next month, nearly 30 years after she was convicted of rolling her car into a South Carolina lake and drowning her two sons who were strapped in their car seats. Smith, 53, is serving life in prison after a jury decided not to...

A journalist arrested while filming a crime scene sues Cincinnati and the officer

CINCINNATI (AP) — A freelance journalist who was handcuffed and arrested after refusing to stop filming the scene of a deadly car crash has sued the city of Cincinnati and the officer. Calvin Andrus, a journalist and videographer for nearly 30 years, said he was standing behind...

European Union observers flag irregularities and 'alteration of results' in Mozambique election

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — European Union election observers have flagged irregularities in Mozambique's election as the country awaits the announcement of official results this week amid protests by opposition supporters and the recent killing of two prominent opposition figures. The EU...

Mozambique rocked by the killings of 2 prominent opposition figures soon after disputed election

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Gunmen in two vehicles ambushed the lawyer for Mozambique's leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official, shooting them dead in their SUV late at night on a main avenue in the capital, their party said Saturday. The brutal burst of violence rocked a...

US opens probe into Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' system after crash reports in low visibility and a pedestrian death

Another study points to correlation between helmet use on motorcycles and odds of survival

A new study compiling decades of fatal motorcycle crashes is being released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which is pushing for stricter state road safety laws. The study suggests that 20,000 motorcyclists who died in crashes in the U.S. since the mid-1970s would...

An inmate convicted of the 1994 killing of a Japanese psychic was found dead in a Hawaii prison cell

HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii inmate convicted of the 1994 murder of a Japanese psychic and her son was killed in prison, authorities said. Staff at the Halawa Correctional Facility in Aiea, outside Honolulu, found Raita Fukusaku, 59, bleeding on the floor of his cell with head and neck...

A bus carrying university students crashes, killing 12 and injuring 33 in Egypt's northeast

CAIRO (AP) — A bus carrying university students crashed and overturned on a highway in northeastern Egypt Monday, killing 12 people and injuring 33 others, the health ministry said in a statement. Students from the Suez-based Galala University were on board. Local media reported...

A bus carrying university students crashes, killing 12 and injuring 33 in Egypt's northeast