Record-setting teen climber says Sherpas should be leading climbs

  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa teenager who’s won mountaineering celebrity as the youngest person ever to summit the world’s 14 highest peaks called for Sherpas to be recognized as athletes and expedition leaders as well as porters and guides. “It’s always been...

Middle East latest: 3 media staffers are killed in Lebanon

  Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing journalists in southeast Lebanon, killing three media staffers from two different news agencies. Several journalists have been killed since a near-daily exchange of fire began...