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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — As many as six people have been killed in an early morning charter bus crash along Interstate 40 in North Little Rock, Arkansas. State police say multiple people with injuries have been taken to hospitals. Troopers say the bus was traveling westbound when it left the roadway and collided with an overpass abutment.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of British tourists are still stranded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the doomed Russian plane took off last weekend. The British budget airline EasyJet had planned to operate 10 flights from the Red Sea resort today, but it says eight flights won't be operating because Egypt has suspended planes from flying into the airport. Monarch airlines and British Airways say they still plan to operate flights today.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police are detaining some 20 people suspected of links to the Islamic State group ahead of a G-20 summit near the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya later this month. The state-run Anadolu Agency reports that the suspects were taken into custody in simultaneous raids. Massive suicide bombings in a Syrian border town and in the capital Ankara that are blamed on a local cell of the Islamic State group have killed some 130 people since July. Police have carried out several raids across Turkey in the past weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyer for the man who landed a gyrocopter outside the U.S. Capitol in April says his client has agreed to plead guilty to a felony when he's scheduled to appear in federal court on November 20. Douglas Hughes has said repeatedly that he objects to doing "significant hard jail time" for an act of civil disobedience that was meant to call attention to campaign finance reform. Hughes' attorney says he could get three years in prison for admitting to operating a gyrocopter without a license.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Prosecutors in Romania have questioned one of the three owners of the nightclub where a fire killed more than 30 people and injured 180. Last Friday's blaze at the Colective nightclub was the deadliest of its kind in Romania. The co-owner questioned was responsible for securing permits for the club. The other two club owners also were detained Tuesday for "grave negligence and irresponsibility" and a "high level of social danger."
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