Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, was given a mandatory term after he admitted attempting to blow up the plane on Christmas Day 2009 as a would-be suicide mission for al-Qaeda.

Thanks to changed regulations Braille is spreading but do most blind people actually use the language of dots?

Her death came as the music industry descended on Los Angeles for the annual celebration of the Grammy Awards, and Ms. Houston was — for all her difficulties over the...