Tornadoes damaged buildings, cut power and injured more than a dozen people in the two states as severe weather swept across the central United States.

China is learning lessons from the war in Iran. Chief among them, the United States may pose an even greater threat than Beijing thought.

For decades, enthusiasts rode the cresting Eisbach creek in the southern German city, some 200 miles from the nearest coast. But the wave has vanished, prompting arguments about how to restore it.