Dry summers put Dutch dikes at risk and threaten German river trade

WADDINXVEEN, Netherlands (AP) – Jeroen Wouda and Dirk Boom walk slowly along a Dutch dike, prodding at the bone dry surface with metal rods and scanning the parched grass for patches of green that could give away the location of a leak.

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' nets second best opening ever with $355 million

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second-biggest North American opening ever with an astonishing $355 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was just a few million shy of “Avengers: Endgame,” which debuted to $357 million in 2019.

Hundreds of thousands line Amsterdam canals for annual Pride boat parade

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of people lined Amsterdam’s canals on Saturday to watch the city’s canal boat parade, the highlight of an annual Pride festival that this year comes just a week after a deadly attack on a Pride event in Berlin.

Body of famed international climber Nirmal Purja found after Pakistan avalanche

ISLAMABAD (AP) – The remains of renowned British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and three other climbers have been found by a ground team on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains, where a 10-member international expedition was swept away by an avalanche, officials said Sunday.

Moscow mayor calls deadly bomb attack on a restaurant a 'terrorist act'

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called on Sunday a bomb attack on a restaurant in the capital the day before a “brutal terrorist act,” but did not say who was responsible. The blast on Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establishment in central Moscow, killed three people, including the woman bomber.

In-N-Out Burger employee among 3 dead in shooting at Idaho fast-food restaurant

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) – An employee was among three people killed in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho, the fast-food chain’s owner said.

A blaze on an Indonesian passenger ferry leaves at least 5 dead

SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) – An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said.

Surf's Pup! Making a splash at the Dog Surfing Championship

Surf’s Pup! Making a splash at the Dog Surfing Championship

Suicide bomber strikes in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 14

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said.