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LONDON - President Barack Obama has a royal dinner date.

FAIRFAX, Virginia - Authorities are searching for a paramedic-firefighter whose car was found in a parking lot in the Shenandoah National Park.

OMAHA, Nebraska - Syracuse's Kaleb Joseph is transferring to Creighton, where he will sit out next season and then have two years of eligibility.

SKOPJE, Macedonia - European Union mediators have invited Macedonia's squabbling politicians to talks Friday in Vienna in a bid to defuse a new political crisis.

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado - The Denver Broncos bolstered their defensive backfield Monday by signing free agent safeties Shiloh Keo and Brandian Ross to one-year contracts.

BIRMINGHAM, England - Aston Villa's turmoil has mounted with the sudden resignation of two directors after the club's relegation from the Premier League was confirmed.

NEW YORK - Pianist Vijay Iyer has an unlikely backstory for a musician who's been voted jazz artist of the year in Downbeat magazine's critics' poll, received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, and is a professor in Harvard's music department.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - The State Bureau of Investigation said a man found dead in his North Carolina home after a shootout with police last month did not kill himself.

BOCA RATON, Florida - A 14-year-old Florida girl's science project caught the eye of President Obama during the White House Science Fair.

NEW YORK - "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," a play about power and seduction in 18th century France, will return to Broadway's embrace this fall, starring Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber.

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Nebraska is desperate to stop the runaway growth of its prison population, but doing so depends a lot on people like Ronald Tillman. Tillman, 54, a paroled drug dealer who suffers from bipolar disease and a debilitating back injury, has lived since his 2013 release solely on his monthly $733 disability check. When his food runs short, he faces a choice that has costly implications for the state- if he gets caught.

BERLIN - The Latest on European efforts to deal with the influx of migrants (all times local):

ANKARA, Turkey - Four rocket projectiles fired from Syria struck a Turkish border town on Monday, killing three Syrian children and a Syrian man, officials and reports said.

DECATUR, Alabama - An Alabama shoplifting suspect who was in police custody following his arrest at a Wal-Mart store died during a two-hour wait in a hospital emergency room, police said Monday.

MILAN - An alleged mafia chief's appetite for pizza has cost him his freedom.

DES MOINES, Iowa - One of the nation's largest egg producers says it plans to build a new cage-free farm in eastern South Dakota that will house 3 million egg-laying hens.

LONDON - A collision between a British Airways passenger jet and a drone over London has left the plane undamaged but the aviation industry deeply shaken.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Discount airline FlyDubai is marking one month since its deadly crash in Russia by launching a website where users can express their condolences.

MIAMI - Faced with protests, political pressure and a lawsuit, Carnival Corp. announced Monday it will allow Cuban-born passengers to book cruises to the island but will delay the trips if Cuba does not change its policy barring nationals from returning by sea.

BERLIN - Indonesia's president is defending his country's use of the death penalty for drug offenses, arguing that drug abuse constitutes an emergency.

MADRID - Not even the most avid fans in Madrid could see this one coming.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rain-triggered floods and landslides left six villagers missing in eastern Indonesia, an official said Monday.

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland - The family of a Prince George's County student has sued the county school system, saying it failed to conduct a proper background check on a teaching assistant who was later convicted of sexually abusing a student.

In this photo by Eranga Jayawardena, a fisherman brings in part of his catch after returning from an overnight fishing trip in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He carried his catch to a fishmonger, while the remainder of the catch remained on the boat to be auctioned later in the fisheries harbor. Area fishermen like him can earn $100 to $200 from a trip that happens about once a week. The fisheries sector is a key part of Sri Lanka's social and economic life and fish products are an important source of protein... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK - The premise of "The Night Manager" is simple. Or might seem so.