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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say at least two people were shot and 31 were arrested in clashes last night in Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a white police officer ten days ago. Protesters filled the streets after nightfall Monday, and police say bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown from the crowd and that some officers had come under heavy gunfire. Officers fired tear gas and flash grenades.
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now killed more than 1,200 people. The U.N. health agency says the death toll has risen to 1,229 from among the 2,240 reported cases in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. But agency officials warn that measures to restrict travel in heavily infected areas, including quarantines of whole villages and counties, are limiting access to food in many cases.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The remains of at least 15 Malaysians killed when a jetliner was shot down over a pro-Russia separatist-controlled area in Ukraine will be returned to their home country this week. Malaysia's defense minister says they're the first Malaysian victims of the disaster to be flown home. All 298 people on board died when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17 while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The victims included 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch nationals.
BEIJING (AP) — An explosion in a coal mine in eastern China has left 27 workers trapped underground. State media reports 12 other miners were lifted out of the privately owned mine in Anhui province. One suffered burns. Rescuers are having a tough time reaching the trapped miners because the blast caused part of a tunnel to collapse.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition in Tampa, Florida after his grandmother mistook him for an intruder and shot him. Sixty-three-year-old Linda Maddox told sheriff's deputies that she had placed a chair against her bedroom door handle for extra protection early this morning. When she heard the chair sliding against the floor, she assumed it was someone breaking in and she grabbed a loaded .22-caliber revolver. Instead, she shot one of her twin grandsons.
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