CAIRO — An investigating judge has ordered the detention of Egypt's ousted president over alleged contacts with Hamas to help in his escape from prison in 2011, the official state news agency reported today in the first official word on Mohammed Morsi's status since he was overthrown by the military on July 3.

The announcement came hours before mass protests were set to take place across the nation in response to a call by military chief Gen. Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi for a show of popular support for his anticipated crackdown on Morsi's supporters and radical Islamists loyal to the ousted leader who have been attacking security forces in the strategic Sinai Peninsula.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which Morsi hails, also called for mass protests on Friday.

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled.The derailment sent pieces of the sleek train plowing across the ground in a ghastly jumble of smashed metal, dirt and smoke.But two days after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades — which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others — one question surpassed all others: Why was the train moving so fast?An American passenger on the train told The Associated Press he saw a monitor screen inside his car clocking the speed at 194 kph (121 mph) just before the crash — more than double the 80 kph (50 mph) speed limit on the curve where it derailed.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis, dubbed the “slum pope” for his work with the poor, received a rapturous welcome Thursday from one of Rio's most violent shantytowns and demanded the world's wealthy end the injustices that have left the poor on the margins of society. He received an even more frenzied welcome as he opened World Youth Day in a far different setting: Rio's upscale Copacabana Beach.Amid the stench of raw sewage and the shrieks of residents, Francis made his way through the Varginha shantytown, part of a region so violent it's known as the Gaza Strip. The 76-year-old Argentine seemed entirely at home, wading into the cheering crowds, kissing residents young and old and telling them the Roman Catholic Church was on their side.It was a message aimed at reversing the decline in the numbers of Catholics in most of Latin America, with many poor worshippers leaving the church for Pentecostal and evangelical churches that have taken up a huge presence in shantytowns like Varginha.“No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world!” Francis told a crowd of thousands who braved a cold rain and stood in a muddy soccer field to welcome him.

LONDON — The archbishop of Canterbury acknowledged today that he was embarrassed by revelations that the Church of England indirectly invested in a payday loan firm he had pledged to put out of business.Archbishop Justin Welby, leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, told the BBC he would urgently review the church's investment after a report by the Financial Times that the church's pension fund had invested in Accel Partners, an American venture capital firm that led the 2009 fundraising for payday lender Wonga.The amount of church money indirectly invested in Wonga was 75,000 pounds ($115,000), out of investments totaling 5.2 billion pounds. But the revelation is still awkward for Welby, who told Total Politics magazine earlier this week that he was ready to compete with payday lenders in hopes of putting them out of business.He claims the firms, which offer small, short-term loans at sky-high interest rates, prey on the most vulnerable in society.