USA: A Massachusetts man reading a book at the beach found a box containing human ashes. George Silva told The Standard-Times he found the box wedged in the rocks, in New Bedford, on Tuesday. Inside was a bag that had the name and number of a New Jersey crematorium.

The killing of 295 people aboard a Malaysian airliner brought down over eastern Ukraine sharply raised the stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides.

Conditions on the Roodee should be perfect for Wednesday’s totesport Chester Cup, for which a maximum field of 18 has been declared for what is the showpiece of the three-day meeting.

Amy Lee and her band, Evanescence, are surviving without guitarist and songwriter Ben Moody.