British meteorologists says up to 20,000 lightning strikes hit the U.K. during a powerful overnight thunderstorm, and a London-area airport is reporting flight disruptions after an aircraft refueling system was damaged.
Danny Jordaan, the chief organizer of the 2010 World Cup, has been re-elected as president of the South African Football Association for a second term despite allegations made by a singer that he raped her 25 years ago.
The city of Jacksonville moved to seize possession of a mall on the downtown riverfront that opened to great fanfare but has lost tenants and faced harsh criticism by city lawyers for shortcomings ranging from excessive vacancies to "unpleasant smells.".
A flood of lawsuits over LGBT rights is making its way through courts and that'll continue, no matter what the Supreme Court decides in the case of a baker who wouldn't create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Officials at the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock are considering $450 million in capital improvement projects over the next 20 years.
Irish voters _ young and old, male and female, farming types and city-bred folk _ endorse expunging abortion ban from their largely Catholic country's constitution by a two-to-one margin.
The family of a 22-year-old train passenger found severely injured next to railroad tracks in Truckee, California, suspects the gay man may have been the victim of a hate crime but Amtrak says police have found no evidence of foul play.
The city that houses Western State Hospital, Washington's main psychiatric facility, is fighting to keep patients from being released into its boundaries.
