FRANKFURT, Germany – Swiss bank UBS Group AG says net profit almost doubled in the first quarter as money from rich clients flowed into its wealth management businesses. The company said Tuesday that its net profit rose to 1.977 billion Swiss francs ($2.12 billion) in the January to March quarter …

PARIS – French authorities have opened a formal judicial inquiry into alleged sexual abuse of children by French troops in the Central African Republic. The move hands the investigation to independent judges instead of the Paris prosecutor’s office, in an acknowledgment of the seriousness and complexity of the accusations, amid …

SEOUL, South Korea – The North Korean military general believed behind two attacks on South Korea that killed 50 people in 2010 has died. He was 77. The North’s main Rodong sinmun newspaper said Monday that Kim Kyok Sik died of an acute respiratory failure on Sunday. Kim is the …

PARIS – A French court has said it’s unclear what caused a French trawler to sink over a decade ago off the British coast, killing five people. The entire crew of the Bugaled Breizh drowned when it capsized and sank 14 miles off the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on January …

JERUSALEM – Israeli police say an American tourist has died while hiking during a heatwave in Israel on a trial leading to the ancient Jewish desert fortress of Masada. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the 20-year-old woman from Florida fell about 5 meters (about 16 feet) at the site of …

LANCASTER, Pa. – A Pennsylvania man accused of killing his wife with an ax on Christmas Eve was pronounced dead after a suicide attempt left him brain-dead, authorities said. Dustin Lee Klopp, 36, was rushed to a hospital Wednesday night after hanging himself in his county prison cell, according to …

ATLANTA – A Spanish dolphin trainer who was set to become a senior vice president at the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta was found dead inside his vehicle at an airport in Spain, The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting. Authorities say Jose Luis Barbero’s death is being treated as a …

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and American Press Institute poll of young adults and their news habits was conducted Jan. 5-Feb. 2 as part of the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the two groups. It is based on online interviews with a nationally representative random sample …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace are joining to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. Bernice King will read a speech by her father as a re-enactment of the more than 50-mile march …

BAD AXE, Mich. – A couple accused of keeping their 19-year-old adopted son in a cage at their home in rural eastern Michigan have made a plea deal and face sentencing in March. Karen and Timothy Tolin each pleaded no contest to a charge of vulnerable adult abuse Thursday in …