LAREDO / AP A charter bus headed to a casino crashed in far South Texas, killing eight people and injuring about 40 in a one-vehicle rollover, officials said. Webb County spokesman Larry Sanchez said seven people died at the scene on US Highway 83 north of Laredo, the Laredo Morning Times reported. An eighth person died later at a …

  Proschim / AP German police said on Sunday they arrested 120 people following violent clashes between environmental activists and security personnel at anti-coal demonstrations in the east of the country. A police spokeswoman said the clashes occurred on Saturday in Lausitz when around 300 demonstrators forced their way into the Schwarze Pumpe coal-fired power station belonging to Swedish state-owned …

Sydney / AFP Five young men face life behind bars after they were charged with terrorism offences over a plan to sail to Indonesia to join extremist groups in Syria, Australian police said. The men, aged in their twenties and early thirties and whose passports had been cancelled, included notorious Australian Islamic preacher Musa Cerantonio, who was detained in the …