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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's national police say in November they received information about a warning from the Islamic State group that there would be "a concert" in Indonesia, meaning an attack. Today, assailants attacked downtown Jakarta with bombs and guns. Police say five of the attackers and two other people are dead.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The winners haven't come forward yet, and they may not even know that they'll be sharing in a $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot. Lottery officials say there are three winning tickets in last night's drawing. The tickets were purchased in Florida, Tennessee and in Chino Hills, California, at a 7-Eleven.
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — A British man is going on trial today for his failed attempt to take a 4-year-old Afghan girl out of a squalid migrant camp in northern France to safety with family in Britain. Forty-nine-year-old Rob Lawrie could get up to five years in prison if convicted of aiding and abetting illegal immigration. He was caught in October on the French side of the English Channel with Bahar Ahmadi, after the girl's father pleaded with Lawrie, a former soldier, to get her out of the Calais camp.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Prosecutors say an American woman killed in Florence, Italy, suffered two fractures to her skull before she was strangled. Prosecutors say they're holding the prime suspect following analysis of DNA found on a condom, a cigarette and under the victim's fingernails. They say a 25-year-old Senegalese man who arrived in Italy a few months ago illegally is the suspect in Ashley Olsen's death. Witnesses reported seeing the two leave a disco last Friday and go into her apartment.
PARIS (AP) — A French official says some of the high school students swept away by a deadly avalanche in the Alps Wednesday may have skied ahead of their teacher. An official in the region says skiers were warned about possible avalanches before three people were killed at a ski resort. Two were among a group of 10 French high school students skiing with their teacher.
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