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TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — A tropical storm has cut short the pope's visit to a Philippine city devastated by a typhoon in 2013. Pope Francis wore a yellow rain poncho over his vestments as he celebrated Mass before 150,000 drenched people in a muddy field in Tacloban (tahk-LOH'-bahn). After the Mass, a 27-year-old church volunteer died after she was hit by scaffolding that reportedly blew over in a gust of wind.
PARIS (AP) — Officials in a city east of Paris say one of the brothers who carried out the massacre at the office of a satirical weekly has been buried in their town (Reims) over their objections. The mayor tells French television that Said Kouachi (sah-EED' koo-AH'-shee) was buried quietly last night after the French government enforced a law that grants a right to be buried in the town of last residence. Kouachi lived in the city before police killed him and his brother on Jan. 9.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan security services have arrested five men in connection with the massacre at a Pakistan military school last month that killed 150 people, most of them children. Three Afghan officials tell The Associated Press that the suspects, all non-Afghans, helped support the Dec. 16 assault by the Taliban at the Army Public School and College in the city of Peshawar (puh-SHAH'-wuhr). The officials say the men were arrested in recent weeks near Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan.
MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) — Police are reporting that a "shooter is contained" at a central Florida mall. The Melbourne Police Department tweeted that officers responding to a shooting this morning at the Melbourne Square Mall had control of the situation and officers were clearing the mall store by store. There is no further information.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Pea-sized bugs that feed on kudzu are spreading from the South, and scientists don't know how to stop them. In the 5 1/2 years since kudzu bugs were first spotted in Georgia, they have spread 400 to 500 miles west and north. They've been found in Louisiana, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, and in southern Delaware. While the pesky kudzu vine is their favorite food, the bugs can suck one-fifth of the yield out of a soybean field, and they can travel by highway.
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