CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

PARIS (AP) – Deaths surged by nearly a third in France during the hottest week of a record heat wave last month, the country’s public health authority said Friday, reporting at least 2,000 more deaths than in the previous week when temperatures were already climbing and filling emergency wards with heat victims.

FRIA, Guinea (AP) – Kazaliou Balde’s parents started worrying about him when as a small child he avoided eye contact and had difficulty communicating.

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) – Three children who died when a boat capsized in Geneva Lake during a Wisconsin storm were wearing life vests, authorities said as the nation assessed damage from storms and a heat wave that marred the July Fourth holiday, leaving hundreds of thousands of utility customers without power.

ORSAY, France (AP) – Ice. Urgently and in large quantities. At a Paris-region hospital, emergency medics needed it to plunge patients into cold-water baths to speedily bring down their temperatures so they wouldn’t join the growing tally of dead.

NEW YORK (AP) – Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease.

Spectacular orange lava flows stream from Mount Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses – one after another.