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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Some people in Ferguson, Missouri say the mood in the town is "totally different," now that the state Highway Patrol has been put in control, stripping local police of their authority. Protests had been violent following last weekend's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by a white Ferguson police officer. In the first few days after the shooting, people looted businesses and tossed Molotov cocktails, and county police in armored tanks responded with tear gas, smoke bombs and police dogs. Now some state police are walking with the crowd and getting handshakes.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Health Organization says beds in Ebola treatment centers in West Africa are filling up faster than they can be provided. A WHO spokesman in Geneva says the flood of patients to newly opened treatment centers shows that the outbreak's size is far larger than official counts show. According to WHO figures, the outbreak, which began in Guinea and has spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, has killed more than 1,060 people and sickened nearly 2,000.
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida is urging the family of an American aid worker it abducted in Pakistan three years ago to demand that the U.S. government negotiate for his release. Warren Weinstein (WYN'-steen) was taken hostage in August 2011, four days before his seven-year stint as a business development expert with the USAID was to end. He turned 73 in July. Al-Qaida says it's "not interested in keeping" Weinstein but wants to exchange him for prisoners in U.S. custody.
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — The Red Cross will be allowed to distribute to the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk emergency aid carried by a convoy of some 200 trucks from Russia. Russia today let Ukrainian officials inspect the trucks at a border crossing. Earlier, Russia had sent the convoy to a border crossing under the control of pro-Russia separatists, raising concerns that the operation was a ruse to get military help to the rebels.
LONDON (AP) — Asian markets have capped one of their best weeks in months with further gains across most of the main indexes. Hong Kong's Hang Seng and China's Shanghai Composite both ended up. Japan's Nikkei was little changed today, but still ended up higher over the week. European stocks are advancing. And Wall Street is poised for gains.
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