A death-row inmate scheduled to die today for a triple murder is waiting to see if he will be handed an 11th-hour stay of execution.

Wildfires that have scorched nearly 1 million acres of the bone-dry Texas Panhandle spread even more, fanned by strong wind gusts that reached as high as 52 mph.

At least 40 people were killed and 18 injured when a bus plunged off a mountain road in Peru’s remote northern Andes today.