Police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that had left Simon Levy free. Today's sentence means he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in more than a year prove to be an insurmountable hurdle for many prospective homebuyers.

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education.