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Pez Owen was joyriding in a Cessna airplane when she spotted one down below. A landmark that big would show up on any flight chart — but it wasn't logged. Then she spotted more X's in the distance.

A woman went into labor at the store in Payson, Utah. The Provo Daily Herald reports she had been buying groceries. The baby came swiftly — maybe it was because she didn't want to hold up the line.

After a nationwide manhunt, Germans are relieved that a Syrian refugee suspected of preparing a bomb attack has been captured and arrested. He was seized and handed over to police by other refugees.

They are haunting images: rubble-filled streets and entire blocks of ghostly facades. The United Nations says about 250,000 civilians are trapped in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

The classroom writing implement has roots in exploding stars, the French Revolution, the British crown jewels and Walden Pond.

In an op-ed for CNN, the president wrote that he hopes to one day look at the night sky with his grandchildren and tell them that humans are living on Mars.

And for one Peace Corps volunteer, it's a chance to join in the local culture — and to try to learn to ululate.

Brit Bennett's debut novel centers on three African-American friends dealing with their community's expectations and their own mistakes. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it is full of "mini epiphanies."

Safran Foer's new novel, Here I Am, is told from the points of view of different members of a Jewish family. He says it's about things falling apart — but also about "people trying to mend things."

There's a debate about who should control the assistance: politicians, aid groups, church groups.