GUATEMALA CITY – Government-backed experts say former Guatemalan dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt is mentally incompetent, potentially derailing a trial on human rights charges. The July 1 opinion by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences determined the 89-year-old is incapable of understanding the charges against him and of participating in …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official news agency says that an explosion at a steel mill in the central Iranian city of Isfahan has killed three workers and injured four. IRNA says the explosion happened on Thursday morning when workers were melting scrap metal. The casualties were taken to local hospitals. …

N’DJAMENA, Chad – Witnesses say an explosion has occurred at the central market in Chad’s capital. The blast Saturday morning came less than a month after suicide bombers on motorcycles attacked two buildings in N’Djamena, killing nearly 40 people in the first assault of its kind since Islamic militants threatened …

SEATTLE – The Coast Guard is searching an area in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca near Seattle for a passenger reported missing from a Holland America cruise ship. The cruise line says the 64-year-old man was aboard the ship Statendam when it sailed from Victoria, British Columbia, Sunday …

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The latest on a Texas inmate scheduled to be executed for the killing of a 93-year-old woman (all times CDT): 12:15 a.m. A Texas inmate set to be executed for the slaying of a 93-year-old woman during a robbery a decade ago is seeking a delay. An …

LONDON – The British government says a rising number of deaths in custody risks undermining public confidence in the police. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Thursday that 17 people died in or after police detention in the year to March 31, six more than in 2013-14 and the highest …

The shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white policeman rightly set off alarms. But much less media attention — especially from the black civil rights leadership — has gone to the deadly assault on a white man by three black teenage boys in St. Louis, …

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – An active underwater volcano off Grenada’s northern coast called Kick ’em Jenny was rumbling Thursday and regional disaster authorities were put on alert, though they said it posed no threat of triggering a destructive tsunami. Since its discovery in the 1930s, Kick ’em Jenny has erupted …

LONDON – An Italian investment group owned by the Agnelli family has confirmed it is in talks with Pearson PLC to increase its stake in the Economist Group. Exor S.p.A., which has been a shareholder in the business since 2009, said the discussions also include the Economist Group’s trustees, who …

BERLIN – Prosecutors in Germany have charged a doctor with negligent bodily harm for declaring a 92-year-old woman dead, only for her to awaken again in a refrigerated room at a funeral home. Essen prosecutor Birgit Juergens said Tuesday the 53-year-old doctor, whose name wasn’t released in line with privacy …