1 Off the bucket list
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet can check mountaineering off her bucket list. The professional ballroom dancer lost a leg in the 2013 finish line attacks and ran the entire 42km race last spring. Over the weekend, she scaled Ecuador's third-highest mountain. Haslet reached the summit
of 5790m Volcan Cayambe with a team of climbers from the Range of Motion Project. The nonprofit group helps provide prosthetic limbs to people around the world who don't have access to them. The expedition summited the snow-capped mountain on Monday. Haslet tweeted: "I can hardly put it into words". She was cheering for the runners in 2013 when she was injured by the second of two bombs planted among the crowds. Three people were killed and more than 260 others wounded.
2 Flooding toll nears 300
Torrential rain lashing northern China in the past week has left nearly 300 people dead or missing and displaced hundreds of thousands. More than half a million people in the hardest-hit provinces of Henan and Hebei had been displaced, with 125,000 people in urgent need of basic assistance, said Xinhua news agency, citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The storms have left 164 dead and 125 missing, it added. Flooding is not uncommon during the monsoon season in northern China, but rain has been unusually heavy across the country.
3 Zika baby in Spain
A woman infected with the Zika virus gave birth in Spain to a baby with the brain-damaging disorder microcephaly, her hospital said, the first case of its kind in Europe. The mother, who has not been identified, caught the virus on a trip abroad but authorities have declined to say where. A hospital source said she was infected in Latin America, where the virus is prevalent. Authorities in Colombia have declared an end to the Zika epidemic, the second-hardest hit in the region. The Health Ministry said the number of cases of the virus have been falling steadily to as few as 600 per week compared to more than 10 times that amount at the outbreak's peak in February.
4 Defendant has to cover up
A Las Vegas judge has ordered a cosmetologist to cover up a defendant's neck and facial tattoos that include a swastika and the words "Most Wanted" on each day of his robbery trial. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that District Judge Richard Scotti decided that Bayzle Morgan's tattoos should be concealed in an effort to get him a fair trial. Morgan has tattoos including a swastika inside a clover under his eye, the words "Skin Head" on his eyebrows and "Baby Nazi" written across his neck. It comes after an entire group of potential jurors said last month that they couldn't be impartial after seeing Morgan's tattoos. A new group will see him in makeup starting today.
5 Findings at Mayan ruin
Archaeologists at the Mayan ruin site of Palenque said they have discovered an underground water tunnel built under the Temple of Inscriptions, which houses the tomb of an ancient ruler named Pakal. Archaeologist Arnoldo Gonzalez says researchers believe the tomb and pyramid were purposely built atop a spring between 683 and 702 AD. The tunnels led water from under the funeral chamber out into the broad esplanade in front of the temple, thus giving Pakal's spirit a path to the underworld.
