Surviving

Anthony Joshua has been discharged from a Lagos hospital after surviving a car crash in southwest Nigeria that killed two of his close friends, state officials said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, 36, was traveling Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on the highway linking Lagos and Ibadan when their SUV slammed into a stationary truck, authorities said. The accident occurred in Ogun state. Preliminary findings by the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) in Ogun indicated the vehicle…

Twenty freed after two years: faces and small artifacts of a long national grief When word reached Tel Aviv that 20 living hostages had been released from Gaza under a ceasefire deal, the city's already taut air broke into song, sobs and the kind of relieved, stunned silence that follows long waits for a miracle. Families who had camped for months outside government offices embraced strangers. At a central square, a woman who had been at almost every protest sat down and laughed with disbelief. A radio blared an old pop…