CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: Hundreds of students and other people affiliated with Harvard University who got a threatening email have received a second message with an apology that apparently came from the same email account.

BEIJING: Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters cancelled planned talks with the government on electoral reforms on Friday after violent scuffles broke out in the city's Mong Kok district after a large group of people challenged the demonstrators who were into the fifth day of their agitation.

INDIANAPOLIS: Peter Kassig first visited Beirut on a college spring break trip. What the former army ranger saw there prompted him to return, the next time as a medical assistant and humanitarian worker hoping to offer blankets, food and medical care to victims of the region's conflicts.

SEOUL: North Korea's presumptive No. 2 and other members of Pyongyang's inner circle made a surprise trip on Saturday to South Korea for the close of the Asian Games, a visit that will include the rivals' highest level face-to-face talks in five years.

The Australian parliament has announced a set of security rules including one that means people wearing the Niqab, which covers part of the face, or the burqa, will need to sit in a closed part of the parliament behind glass when visiting.

FREETOWN/DAKAR: The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and creates food shortages.

CAIRO: The Egyptian judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases against Islamist supporters of the country's ousted president, drawing world criticism, has been removed from his criminal court, officials and the judge himself told The Associated Press on Thursday.

WASHINGTON: Secret Service director Julia Pierson resigned on Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.

WASHINGTON: The top US and Chinese diplomats publicly aired differences on Wednesday over the protests in Hong Kong, where students want democratic changes to the electoral system.

MIAMI: A Florida man faces life in prison after being convicted of first degree murder at his retrial for the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager during an argument over loud music in 2012.