LITTLE ROCK — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s first black Anglican archbishop who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to apartheid, announced in a statement that he will withdraw from public life after his 79th birthday on Oct. 7, saying, “The time has now come to slow down.”
John Ging, the top U.N. aid official in the Gaza Strip, said more than 7,000 Palestinian children simultaneously dribbled basketballs for five minutes in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records, adding that he expected to know in a few days whether the children had beaten a record set in 2007 in Indiana.
William Rapetti, a crane rigger, has been acquitted of manslaughter charges stemming from the collapse of a New York City crane in 2008, an accident that killed six construction workers and a tourist and injured two dozen others.
Rick Warren, 56, author of the multimillion-selling book The Purpose Driven Life and founder of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., was briefly hospitalized after he suffered an eye injury while gardening at his home, his spokesman said, adding that he is expected to fully recover.
Bryan Abrams, 40, a singer with the 1990s R&B band Color Me Badd, has been charged in Honolulu with harassment after police say he got into an argument with his wife and threw her across the room.
Robert John Burck, the singing Times Square entertainer who wears a pair of white briefs, cowboy boots and hat and is known as the “Naked Cowboy,” has filed suit in federal court in Manhattan against Sandra Brodsky, who calls herself the “Naked Cowgirl,” accusing her of infringing on his trademarked image.
David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, returned to London from the United States on board a scheduled British Airways flight as part of his efforts to cut government spending and the country’s deficit.
Sandra Bechthold, a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, thrift store manager whose laptop was accidentally sold for $5 last week, has the computer back after a customer returned the item to the store after hearing about the mistake through the news.
Saiqa Akhter, who is accused of killing her two children, has been charged in Dallas with capital murder in one of the deaths after police say she told a 911 operator that she tried to poison the pair and then choked them with a wire because they were autistic and she wanted “normal kids.”
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