HONOLULU – The University of Hawaii sophomore who lived in a 14th-floor campus apartment where a man fell to his death from a window ledge says he watched him and another man plummet to the ground. Twenty-four-year-old Thomas Bennett was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police say he tried to …

RALEIGH, N.C. – The deaths of four people killed on zip lines and other challenge courses this summer has drawn attention to a regulatory safety net full of holes. After the death of 12-year-old Bonnie Sanders Burney, the North Carolina General Assembly swiftly passed a law requiring the state to …

STOCKHOLM – A Swedish prosecutor says an Uzbekistan national suspected of the 2012 attempted murder of an imam who was critical of the Uzbek regime has been extradited to the Scandinavian country. Prosecutor Krister Petersson says the man was arrested in Moscow in January on an international arrest warrant. Petersson …

PERTH, Australia – Paul Royle, an Australian pilot who took part in a mass breakout from a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that is remembered as The Great Escape, has died in his hometown of Perth, his son said Friday. He was 101. The escape was …

BAGHDAD – Security officials say a roadside bomb targeting a border guard convoy has killed five officers. The officials say Saturday’s blast hit the convoy, headed to the border with Jordan in western Iraq, near the border post of Trebil. Officials also say a pair of roadside bombs killed five …

UNITED NATIONS – The global parliamentary organization says the speaker of the Russian Parliament’s upper house will address its world conference Monday afternoon by video — and not in person because the U.S. barred her from attending. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko is under U.S. sanctions in connection with …

Seventy years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of Allied powers in the Pacific, stood on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and formally accepted the surrender of Imperial Japan. It marked the end of World War II, history’s bloodiest war, …

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. – Fort Carson says two soldiers injured when their Black Hawk helicopter landed hard in a suburban Denver forest in Douglas County remain hospitalized and in stable condition. The military installation in Colorado Springs says investigators from the U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center in Alabama’s Fort Rucker …

ANKARA, Turkey – A Dutch journalist says she has been detained by police while covering clashes in a town in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region. Frederike Geerdink said on her Twitter account Sunday that she was detained in the town of Yusekova and would be questioned by a prosecutor. It …

PARIS – French officials say two French jets have made their first reconnaissance forays over Syria. Tuesday’s confirmation from Laurent Fabius and a French military official comes as Britain defended a drone strike in Syria that left two Britons dead. France’s president, announcing plans for the reconnaissance flights, said they …