THAILAND-EXPLOSION
BANGKOK — Thai authorities unveiled the restored centerpiece Friday of the Erawan Shrine, in the latest bid to boost confidence among Bangkok's tourism and business communities almost three weeks after a deadly bombing that left 20 dead.
CHINA-MARKET COLLAPSE-ECONOMY
BEIJING — Beijing's scramble to put a floor under free-falling share prices came at a cost China has yet to tally. The boom and bust passed so fast it had little short-term impact on consumer spending. But on top of the public money plowed into buying shares, the intervention disrupted fundraising for small companies and set back efforts to make the stock market a tool for economic reform.
INDIA-POOR BEHIND BARS
LUCKNOW, India — Thousands of poor Indians charged with crimes languish in jail, sometimes for more than a decade. They are trapped between a notoriously slow legal system and poverty so extreme that even bail of a few hundred dollars is out of reach.
AUSTRALIA-SHARK ATTACK
SYDNEY — A 65-year-old man was mauled by a shark off Australia's most populous state on Friday, but managed to get back on his surf ski and get help on shore.
US & INTERNATIONAL
GAY MARRIAGE-KENTUCKY — A defiant county clerk goes to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, but five of her deputies agree to comply with the law, ending a two-month church-state standoff in Rowan County, Kentucky.
EUROPE-MIGRANTS — Thousands of people desperate to reach Western Europe rush into the main Budapest train station after police ended a two-day blockade, setting off a wave of anger and confusion as hundreds shoved their way onto a waiting train. But when it tries to drop them off at a Hungarian camp for asylum seekers, a bitter showdown begins.
GUATEMALA-POLITICAL CRISIS — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigns amid a corruption scandal that brought together people from all walks of life demanding that he step aside.
MIGRANTS-FAMILY DROWNS — He is one among many, far too many. But the plight of one boy, washed up like a piece of debris on a Turkish beach, has focused the world's attention on a wave of war-and-deprivation-fueled migration unmatched since World War II.
MILLENNIALS-TRAITS — Even millennials don't think much of their generation, according to a new poll. More than half of millennials describe their generation as "self-absorbed," while notable percentages say they are "wasteful" and "greedy."
CHARLESTON SHOOTING — The white man accused of killing nine black churchgoers in what authorities said was a racially motivated crime during Bible study will face a death penalty trial, even though not all the victims' families agree with capital punishment, a prosecutor says.
CLINTON-BENGHAZI — Aides to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton urged a former State Department employee who helped set up her private email server to appear before a House investigative panel, but the staffer says he will assert his constitutional right not to testify.