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After Violence, Security Upped At European Soccer Championship Matches

Authorities in France have banned the sale of alcohol in the cities of Lille and Lens, in advance of soccer matches involving Russian and English teams. Fans from those teams clashed over the weekend.

A waxing crescent moon is seen behind a streetlight with a newly installed LED fixture in 2011 in Las Vegas. The city was replacing 6,600 existing lights with the energy-efficient LEDs. It has since replaced tens of thousands more.

Bright, Bluish-White LED Streetlamps Disrupt Sleep Cycles, AMA Says

The American Medical Association says some energy-efficient streetlamps interfere with circadian rhythms and also cause glare. It recommends that towns choose less intense, warmer-colored lights.

Workers stand next to a collapsed crane that was blamed for 107 deaths at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Mecca last week.

Bin Laden Company Banned From Work In Mecca After Crane Disaster

A Saudi royal court says the Saudi Binladin Group, which has operated in the kingdom since the 1930s, can't pursue new projects until an inquiry is closed.

People gather to look at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Orlando nightclub shootings in front of the historic Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the West Village, on June 13, in New York.

Obama Names LGBT Landmark As National Monument

The Stonewall National Monument in New York City will be the first addition to the National Park System specifically highlighting the history of the LGBT community.

As fast-moving Typhoon Nepartak makes its way across the Philippines Sea, large waves crash against the breakwaters Thursday in Ilan on the eastern coast of Taiwan.

Taiwan Braces For Super Typhoon Nepartak

The storm bearing down on the island is expected to make landfall early Friday. Nepartak could batter Taiwan's coastline, and thousands have been evacuated from islands off Taiwan's coast.

Pakistani security officials inspect the site of an explosion in Quetta on Friday. All told, dozens of people were killed Friday in several cities across Pakistan.

Dozens Of People Killed In A Bloody Day Of Attacks Across Pakistan

Between twin bombings at a Parachinar market, a car bombing near a police office in Quetta and a shooting in Karachi, Pakistan is reeling from attacks claimed by several extremist groups.

Archaeologists working at the Templo Mayor site of Aztec ruins in Mexico City, in August 2015. Scientists say the remains of women and children are among those found at a main trophy rack of human skulls, known as "tzompantli."

Aztec 'Tower Of Skulls' Reveals Women, Children Were Sacrificed

Some 650 skulls unearthed in Mexico City are believed to be the legendary Huey Tzompantli, a site for victims of human sacrifice first mentioned by Spanish conquistadors.

The Gotham of the "grammar vigilante": Bristol, U.K.

The 'Grammar Vigilante': Defender Of Truth, Justice And The Grammarian Way

Wielding his handy "apostrophiser," this "Banksy of punctuation" stalks the streets of Bristol at night, reclaiming the British city's street signs for good — one corrected apostrophe at a time.

Fox Creek Speed Limit Lowered, Bloomington Budget Approved

Residents on the southwest side of Bloomington will have to drive slower on a section of Fox Creek Road.The City Council has approved lowering the speed…

Vice President Pence addressed the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday. He said a new U.S. Embassy would open in the city by the end of next year.

U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem Will Open By End Of 2019, Pence Says In Israel

Vice President Pence announces a faster timeline for opening the embassy than had been previously reported and calls Jerusalem "Israel's capital" in a speech to the Knesset.

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