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LANDSTUHL, Germany (AP) — Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati (ah-MEER' hehk-MAH'-tee) says he feels humbled and lucky to be free again. He was one of four Americans released by Iran as part of a prisoner swap. Hekmati told reporters today outside a U.S. military hospital in Germany that news of his impending release came as a surprise. He says he and his fellow prisoners weren't able to relax until the Swiss government plane they were flown out in had left Iranian airspace, after which "champagne corks were popped."
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California are trying to determine why a Greyhound bus rolled onto its side this morning, killing two people and sending five others to the hospital. It happened during a rainy morning rush hour in San Jose. No other vehicles were involved.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have been mostly higher today after sharp sell-offs last week. Financial stocks have been given a boost by strong results from investment bank Morgan Stanley. But energy and mining stocks continue to slump on concerns about reduced worldwide demand.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Lawyers for Ethan Couch say they're investigating whether the 18-year-old fled to Mexico, or was taken there against his will. Authorities allege that Couch and his mother fled to Mexico as Texas prosecutors investigated whether he may have violated his probation stemming from a drunken-driving wreck that killed four people. His mother has been returned to Texas to face charges, but the teen is still being held in Mexico. A court hearing today in Texas was postponed after attorneys for Couch said his parents hadn't been notified of it.
LONDON (AP) — Stephen Hawking is warning that new technologies will probably bring "new ways things can go wrong" for human survival. As he recorded part of a BBC lecture series, the physicist was asked how the world will end -- and he said that increasingly, the threats to humanity come from progress in science and technology. He says they include nuclear war, global warming and genetically-engineered viruses. Hawking says a disaster on earth is a "near certainty" in the next 1,000 to 10,000 years -- but by that time, humans are likely to have spread out into space.
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