Cleveland / AFP Donald Trump faced an embarrassing plagiarism scandal on Tuesday that tarnished his wife Melania’s prime-time speech to a Republican National Convention already roiled by an opening day rank-and-file revolt. It was a rough start to the four-day political jamboree, which was designed to crown Trump as the presidential nominee and catapult the party toward November’s elections. …

  Wuerzburg/ AFP A 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked four people with an axe on a German train had an Islamic State flag at his house, police said on Tuesday shortly before the extremist group claimed him as one of its fighters. German authorities said they had found the hand-painted IS flag among the belongings of the asylum-seeker, who seriously …

  WASHINGTON Let’s salute an unlikely champion of saving energy and switching to alternative fuels — the US Navy. Once a supreme fuel-guzzler whose energy needs sometimes dictated foreign policy, the Navy has become a model for how the country can curb its appetite for fossil fuels. The Navy’s energy diet began seven years ago with an edict from newly …