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QUETTA, Pakistan – Pakistani police say gunmen opened fire on a police convoy, killing two officers and a woman passer-by in the southwestern city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Abdur Razzaq Cheema, the Quetta police chief, says police fired back and killed one of the attackers in Monday’s …

PHILADELPHIA – The accuser in the only sex assault case that Bill Cosby has settled is questioning his self-proclaimed ability to “read” women’s cues in sexual situations. Andrea Constand’s lawyer notes in a court filing Tuesday that Cosby didn’t recognize the Temple University employee he befriended was gay. Constand testified …

LONDON – One of Britain’s biggest unions has backed left-wing contender Jeremy Corbyn to lead Britain’s opposition Labour Party, and a major bookmaker has made the former outsider odds-on favorite to win the contest. General secretary Dave Prentis of Unison, which represents more than 1 million public-sector workers, said the …