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People in Nice, France are dumping garbage at the spot where the terrorist who killed dozens of people last week died in a police shootout. According to The Local, the pile of trash, rocks, and messages lies at the site where Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot dead by police after he killed 84 people using a 25-ton truck as his weapon. More than 300 people were injured in the attack.

WASHINGTON – A Delta Air Lines jetliner with 130 passengers on board landed at the wrong airport in South Dakota Thursday evening, said a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident. The Delta A320 landed at Ellsworth Air Force Base at 8:42 p.m. Central Time Thursday, when its destination was an airport in Rapid City, board spokesman Peter Knudson said Friday.

“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have not confirmed they are a couple, but they are certainly spending a lot of their free time together. On Friday, the MSNBC hosts were spotted getting a Delta flight from JFK Airport to Nantucket, Mass.

A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe. David Phyall’s severed head was found beside the power tool inside his housing association flat shortly after receiving his eviction notice. Detectives were today investigating the possibility that the 58-year-old killed himself rather than leave his home of eight years.

LONDON — A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly. The Times newspaper on Monday quoted examiner Peter Buckroyd as saying he gave the student — who wrote an expletive starting with f, followed by the word "off" — two points out of a possible 27 for the English paper. "It would be wicked to give it zero because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling," Buckroyd was quoted as...

The Government yesterday announced what it described as a 'comprehensive shakeup' of local government priorities for the next three years. At least one council has decided to take the guidance literally. Officials in Gateshead have been touring chip shops confiscating salt shakers with more than five holes in them. They have spent £2,000 on replacements, which are being given away free.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) With all the jokes about cops and donut shops, it might not seem like an easy proposition, but Philadelphia police union leaders pledged to support striking Dunkin' Donuts drivers and warehouse workers with a boycott. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1360 have been on strike at the Dunkin' Donuts Mid-Atlantic Distribution Center in Logan Township, N.J., since June. Police Union president Rich Costello said the police union agrees with the workers. ''We don't believe anyone is above the rule of the law,'' he said. The union wants the owner of the warehouse to abide ...

ENID, Okla. (AP) An inmate armed with a 3-foot potato masher threatened to give jailers a few lumps during an escape, authorities say. Rocky Robertson ordered jailers and dispatchers onto the roof of the Garfield County jail early Wednesday, then used an extension cord from the kitchen to climb down the side, said Undersheriff Jerry Niles said. Police caught him less than a half-hour later. Robertson had been serving 20 years on drug and child abuse charges.

NEW YORK (AP) Jason Black and Frances Schroeder don't know what they will name the baby boy they're expecting. But they aren't leafing through any ''Name Your Baby'' books. Instead, the couple are looking for a corporate sponsor to pay half a million dollars for their son's name. Only time and money will tell whether the child will get a name like ''Heinz'' or ''Microsoft,'' ''Coke'' or ''Kraft.'' ''It's the opportunity to have this media moment when the name would be unveiled,'' said Black. ''The exposure that it could bring to a business is potentially huge, and we think it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly six decades after they went to war, 29 Navajo Indians were honored Thursday for creating the uncrackable code used by the Marines during World War II's fiercest battles. President Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award Congress can bestow, to four of the surviving Navajo Code Talkers. The other 25 Code Talkers were represented by family members, who accepted the medals. ''Today, we honor 29 Native Americans who, in a desperate hour, gave their country a service only they could give,'' Bush said in a ceremony held in the packed rotunda of the Capitol. ...

Fund raising by state Democratic and Republican party committees in the 1999-2000 election cycle, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity, Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute on Money in State Politics: State Amount New York $ 91,708,388 Florida $ 53,692,769 California $ 42,930,347 Pennsylvania $ 38,212,070 Illinois $ 35,578,243 Michigan $ 34,423,468 Ohio $ 33,448,476 Missouri $ 25,841,325 New Jersey $ 23,066,643 Minnesota $ 22,733,774 Washington $ 20,675,050 Virginia $ 20,187,544 Indiana $ 18,565,705 Iowa $ 15,892,304 Texas $ 13,938,094 Oregon $ 12,281,905 Kentucky $ 10,095,738 Colorado $ 9,608,104 Louisiana $ 9,449,103 Montana $ ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Three genetically modified pigs were turned into sausages after being stolen from a U.S. university, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. The pigs, which had been modified to carry a copy of a gene involved in eye function, had already been killed and were meant to be destroyed. But they were stolen by an employee at the University of Florida and turned into sausages by an unsuspecting butcher. ``This is the only case of its kind we know of,'' Donald Ralbovsky, of the National Institutes of Health (news - web sites), told New Scientist weekly magazine. None ...

President George Bush's first political expedition to Europe was strong on charm and short on substance. The president politely restated his positions on contentious issues like global warming and missile defence. And the Europeans, in turn, expressed their reservations. Nonetheless President Bush seems to have gone down well, not least because of his tone. He stressed a willingness to listen and consult. He set out the arguments behind policies which make the Europeans uncomfortable. And he did so in a way that suggested he has a better command of the facts than many people expected. Mood music His European trip ...

Bulgaria's former king Simeon II is set to become the first monarch to return to power in East Europe since the collapse of communism, after his election victory on Sunday. Other former monarchs have returned to their homelands, but none has regained political power. Here is what happened to some of them. Bulgaria's Simeon II Born in June 1937, he took the throne at the age of six, but was forced into exile when communists took power in 1946. He first returned to his homeland in 1996 after half a century in exile, mostly in Spain. His family's property was ...

Authorities at the prison where Timothy McVeigh was executed say they used a decoy hearse as a security measure. A spokeswoman for the Terre Haute penitentiary in Indiana says they wanted to avoid a potential ambush of the motorcade. Kathy Pierce says the decoy was sent out as the real hearse took McVeigh's body to a funeral home before his cremation. "Security was the main thing. We just never know. It was used mainly to protect McVeigh's body," she said. After the cremation, the Oklahoma bomber's ashes were handed over to a member of his legal team. Workers at a ...

The Indian Supreme Court has decided against using the electric chair to execute people because of the country's frequent power cuts. It has also rejected lethal injection because they think it's an affront to medical ethics. The court's judges have decided instead to retain hanging - and say it is the most civilised way to execute Death Row criminals. During the court debate, one lawyer argued the death penalty should be replaced completely, The Times of India reports. But he added offenders should be blinded until they are reformed, then "given their sight back by transplantation." In its conclusions over ...

A German woman called Lewinski who works at a company called Clinton says customers constantly make cigar jokes. Yvonne Lewinski says despite the jokes, she enjoys working for the Berlin jeans manufacturer. The company has a male fashion label called Camp David, a women's line named after Hillary and shops called Chelsea. She said of the customers: "Some laugh straight away, others start making jokes about cigars or even think I am taking the mickey and say, 'Yeah, yeah, and I'm the President of the United States'," she said. Her surname is pronounced in exactly the same way as Bill ...