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Hurricane Kiko and Tropical Storm Lorena gain strength over the eastern Pacific Ocean

MIAMI (AP) — Two tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific Ocean gained strength Tuesday as they churned at sea, with one expected to bring heavy rain to Baja California, forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Lorena was expected to be a hurricane off the western coast of Mexico, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Lorena was centered Tuesday about 155 miles (250 kilometers) south of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The tropical storm had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) and was moving northwest at 14 mph (22 kph), forecasters said.

Sudan landslide kills more than 1,000 people after wiping out village in Darfur

CAIRO (AP) — A landslide wiped has out an entire village in Sudan ’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday.

The village was “completely leveled to the ground,” the Sudan Liberation Movement-Army said as it appealed to the U.N. and international aid groups for help to recover the bodies.

Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash, his spokesperson says

Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire in which he was a passenger, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday.

Giuliani was being driven in a rented Ford Bronco by his spokesperson Ted Goodman when their vehicle was struck from behind by a Honda HR-V driven by a 19-year-old woman late Saturday evening, New Hampshire State Police said in a statement.

Drones blasting AC/DC and Scarlett Johansson are helping biologists protect cattle from wolves

For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.

But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they're using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.

Handmade cards from classmates comfort a girl wounded in Minneapolis church shooting, aunt says

Lying in an intensive care unit hospital bed, 11-year-old Genevieve Bisek is comforted by the many handmade cards she has received from fellow classmates after Wednesday's shooting at a Minneapolis church.

Some are decorated with beads, some with sparkling stars. All of them are taped to the walls of her room at the Hennepin County Medical Center, where she has been recovering. Her condition has been upgraded from critical to satisfactory.

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