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BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) — The government of a Nigerian state besieged by Islamic militants has identified 53 girls who escaped the group Boko Haram (BOH'-koh hah-RAHM') after being abducted last month. More than 300 girls were taken from their school in Chibok, and 276 remain missing. U.S. officials and agents are arriving in Nigeria to help the government rescue them. Meanwhile, Chibok residents are staging a street protest today to press the state government to do more to find the missing girls.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is showing off its military muscle today at the annual Red Square parade. About 11,000 Russian troops marched across the square to patriotic songs followed by combat aircraft roaring overhead. President Vladimir Putin spoke before the parade, making no reference to the situation in Ukraine. Meanwhile in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia insurgents are defying Putin's call to delay a referendum on independence in eastern Ukraine and are holding it this weekend.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has resumed in Hartford, Connecticut following Sunday's accident in which eight acrobats dangling by their hair were seriously injured in a fall. The crowd gave the injured performers a rousing ovation, and ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson expressed thanks to first responders and fans. Seven acrobats are still in the hospital and two are in serious condition.
CESANO BOSCONE, Italy (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has arrived at a facility for Alzheimer's patients to begin his first four-hour community service stint as part of a tax fraud sentence. The three-time former premier was ordered to perform four hours of community service a week for a year, after his four-year prison sentence was reduced to one by a general amnesty. Berlusconi says he has been studying treatments for the disease in order to better assist patients.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A northeast Florida woman is facing charges for allegedly having her neighbor's trailer home bulldozed. Ana Maria Moreta Folch of St. Augustine allegedly told a heavy equipment operator that she owned the trailer and wanted it and its septic tank destroyed. Police say Folch wanted the trailer bulldozed because she thought her neighbors were unsavory and she suspected they had broken into her car.
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