Russia is observing a day of mourning and has grounded the airline whose airbus 321 crashed in Egypt Sinai Peninsula yesterday, killing everyone on board. A top Russian aviation official says the aircraft broke up in midair but the cause of the crash is still unknown. NPR's AF reports European investigators have joined teams from Russia and Egypt at the crash site. Egypt's minister of civil aviation says French and German experts from the company that built the plane arrived this mooring. Egyptian authorities are examining two black box flight recorders. More than 200 people were killed when the plane headed for Russia crashed about 20 minutes after taking off from a resort city. An ISIS affiliate operating nearby claimed responsibility for downing the plane but they offered no evidence. And experts and officials are skeptical the militants have capacity for such an attack. AF, NPR news.

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is declaring victory in today's parliamentary election. His AK Party regained the majority that's lost in elections last June, returning the country to single party rule. This despite the divisions in the country between who support Erdogan's crackdown on opposition and on the media and secularists. Turkey is an important US and NATO ally. Islamist Al Shabaab militants are taking responsibility for today's attack on hotel in Somalia's capital. At least 10 people are dead including a member of parliament and a general who led the 2011 offensive that drove Al Shabaab from Mogadishu. BBC's TA reports the attack began with a car bombing. The bomb went off at dawn with some Mogadishu residents saying it was the loudest that they heard in a long time. It was followed by gun fire. A security forces fought suspected Al Shabaab militants who intended to take the building. The high-profile client of the hotel is likely to have been the target of the attack. This comes a day after deadly clashes between jihadist fighters and troops from the regional coalition in Somalia's Bakool region.  BBC's TA.

Police in North Carolina are still looking for a suspect who shot and killed a student at Winston-Salem State University this mooring. Another student was injured. The campus was locked down for serval hours. Some areas are still restricted. This is NPR.

Game 5 of the World's Series is tonight in New York and it's maker of break for the Mets. As MM of member station WUFV reports the Kansas city's Royals are on the brink of the championship. As Kansas city moves within one game of winning the world's series, first basement Eric Hosmer so are the same winning formula in the teams 53, Game 4 winning over Mets that he's seen around the playoffs. Taking advantage of common mistakes along our side and that's what we've been doing at season already and we're just putting together big innings and the time they make mistakes, we capitalize on it and that's what championship teams doing. Manager N would love to close out series in Game 5 but won't call the game a must-win. It's gonna be important but it's not gonna be the end of war if we don't. But you know I think everybody is you know is gonna to the park ready to go.A Game 5 winning in New York would means the Royal's first championship in 30 years. For NPR news, I'm MM in Queens. At today's New York city marathon, Kenyan MK won the women's race finishing in 2 hours 24 minutes and 25 seconds. SB also of Kenya took the Men's title after 2 hours 10 minutes and 34 seconds. The man who is said to be responsible for the rapid fall of the Berlin Wall has died. In 1998, East Germany had planned to lift travel restrictions in phases but when Guenter Schabowski mistakenly announced they would be lifted immediately, tens of thousands of people converged at the wall and guards couldn't hold them back. Schabowski  was 86. I'm BK, NPR news in Washington.