NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks drifted higher on Monday following big rallies for markets in Asia earlier in the day. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% and pulled closer to its all-time high. The Dow Jones added 20 points, or less than 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.9%. The relatively modest moves followed a 3.9% burst higher for Japan's Nikkei 225 to a record.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – At least 30 people have been killed and an unspecified number of people injured in a road accident in northwest Nigeria, authorities said. The accident occurred Sunday in Kwanar Barde in the Gezawa area of Kano state and was caused by “reckless driving” by the driver of a truck-trailer, Gov. Abba Yusuf said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (AP) – House lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be self-incriminating. The House Oversight Committee wanted Maxwell to answer questions during a video call to the federal prison where she’s serving a 20-year sentence.

LONDON (AP) – Nigeria’s president is set to make a state visit to the U.K. in March, the first such trip by a Nigerian leader in almost four decades, Britain’s Buckingham Palace said Sunday. Officials said President Bola Tinubu and first lady Oluremi Tinubu will travel to the U.K. on March 18 and 19.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) – Olympic fans came to Cortina with heavy winter coats and gloves. Those coats were unzipped Sunday and gloves pocketed as snow melted from rooftops – signs of a warming world. “I definitely thought we’d be wearing all the layers,” said Jay Tucker, who came from Virginia to cheer on Team USA.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) – Flash floods caused by a storm in northern Morocco killed at least four people as the country struggled with days of heavy rain and water releases from overfilled dams that forced mass evacuations, local authorities said Sunday.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – In a city long defined by conflict, Somalia ‘s capital of Mogadishu now echoes with the crash of pins at the country’s first modern bowling alley. It’s the latest sign of revival in the once-thriving Indian Ocean port shaped by 35 years of civil war and militant bombings.