Stocks open higher...New threat from bomber...Fans mourn Bowie

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NEW YORK (AP) — After a dismal opening week to 2016, the stock market is trying to get on better footing. Stocks have opened higher as the market shakes off the latest drop in China. European markets were also broadly higher. In China, the Shanghai composite fell 5.3 percent.

CAIRO (AP) —There's a new threat today against the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, from the expert bomb-maker for the Yemeni branch of al-Qaida. In an audio recording, he's vowing revenge for Saudi Arabia's execution of several militants earlier this month. They were among 47 people executed by the Saudis in the country's largest mass execution in 35 years.

LONDON (AP) — Fans have gathered to lay flowers beside a mural of rock singer David Bowie in Brixton, the south London neighborhood where he was born in 1947. Bowie died of cancer yesterday at the age of 69. One man who says he first heard Bowie nearly 45 years ago says the singer will be remembered for "the way he influenced people to just get up in the morning and put on what you want to put on and be who you want to be."

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Actor Sean Penn has said he worried that officials were monitoring his trip to Mexico to interview fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It turns out he was right -- he just didn't know how closely. A Mexican newspaper (El Universal) has published 10 photographs that appear to show Penn and a Mexican actress arriving at an airport in October and greeting the men who apparently took them to a small airstrip, from where they flew to the jungle camp to meet Guzman. The photos appear to have been taken with a telephoto lens from long distance. The newspaper says they come from a government intelligence file.

NEW YORK (AP) — Another coal company is filing for bankruptcy protection, as the industry struggles amid a shift by power companies to natural gas. Arch Coal says its mines will stay open, and that its employees shouldn't be affected immediately by the bankruptcy process. It says it's reached a deal with lenders to reduce its debt by more than $4.5 billion.