- Pope Francis will meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kyril, marking the first time leaders of these two churches have met in history.
- Senate Democrats, along with several Republicans, have blocked energy legislation as GOP leaders have refused to add aid to deal with Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated water systems.
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency says that ISIS has sent fighters into the country passing as refugees, a day after the agency stopped a potential Paris-style attack in Berlin.
- Brazil's annual Carnival is facing the realities of the country's historic recession and resources diverted to the 2016 Rio Summer Games as funding and sponsorship is drying up.
- Scientists at the LIGO observatory in Louisiana are looking for gravity waves as the race to find what Einstein theorized a century ago heats up.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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