World News Update, what you need to know

KABUL - US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has defended the prisoner exchange with the Taliban that led to the release of a US soldier held captive for five years, saying Bowe Bergdahl's life was in danger.

ELSEWHERE:

KANO, Nigeria - A bomb attack targeting fans at a football match in Nigeria's restive northeast has killed at least 40 people, a police officer says.

NEW YORK - An owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and six other people have been killed in a fiery plane crash just outside Boston.

MOSCOW - Russian divers have recovered five bodies from the wreckage of a helicopter carrying 18 people, including regional officials and businessmen, that crashed into a lake.

PARIS - A Frenchman arrested over killings at a Belgian Jewish museum had travelled to Syria and claimed responsibility for the shootings in a video, prosecutors say.

KHARTOUM - Sudan has denied a woman sentenced to hang for refusing to renounce her Christian faith will be freed soon, saying quotes attributed to a foreign ministry official have been taken out of context.