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TOKYO (AP) — Wall Street investors are hoping that yesterday's day off will help stocks recover from Friday's slide which saw the Dow drop 391 points and the Nasdaq lose 127 points. Dow and S&P 500 futures are up 1.6 percent today. And European and Asian stocks have rallied after China's quarterly economic growth met expectations, calming intense jitters about the global outlook that have battered markets since the beginning of the year.
BAGHDAD (AP) — The battle between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group is taking its toll on civilians. A U.N. report says between the start of 2014 and the end of October 2015, at least 18,802 civilians were killed and another 36,245 were wounded in Iraq. And the report documents a wide range of human rights abuses, including forced sexual slavery of mainly women and children from the Yazidi religious minority. The U.N. calls the civilian death toll "staggering."
EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in central Georgia say a 74-year-old woman froze to death while trying to help her husband, who's in a wheelchair. The sheriff in Putnam County says 86-year-old Roy Riffe was in a motorized wheelchair going down the concrete walkway at their home in Eatonton last Thursday when he ran off the walkway and fell out of the wheelchair. His wife Maria, who relied on a walker, tried to help him, but she fell, leaving both of them helpless. Investigators say Riffe likely survived because he was wearing fleece and his wife was only wearing a dress.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Today, workers in Miami Beach, Florida will be tearing down a mansion once owned by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The U.S. government seized the pink waterfront mansion in 1987, and it's changed ownership twice since then. The current owner wants to build a more modern home on the site, but first he hired professional treasure hunters to see if Escobar had left anything valuable behind.
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds say they will induct Pete Rose into the team's hall of fame. The Reds' announcement today comes barely a month after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred rejected Rose's application for reinstatement. Manfred had said that baseball's career hits leader continued to gamble even while seeking to end the lifetime ban imposed in 1989 for betting on games. The team induction is planned for June.
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