LITTLE ROCK — King Juan Carlos of Spain promised to “take things very easy” during his recuperation after he was discharged from a hospital in Madrid nine days after entering to undergo reconstructive surgery on his left hip joint.
Mahamadou Issoufou, the president of Niger, said after meeting with Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore that his country is ready to help the torn state regain its northern region, which was taken over by Islamist rebels during a March coup.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said her country would revisit the possibility of forgiving Greece some of its debt after the current bailout program is successfully concluded and the government in Athens no longer takes on new debt, but added that it wouldn’t be “before 2014-2015.”
Darcy Morse said nearly 300 skiers and snowboarders took to the slopes of a Maine ski resort decked out in red-and-white Santa Claus outfits for the annual “Santa Sunday” fundraiser, which supports the Bethel Rotary Club’s annual Christmas toy drive.
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, has yet to kick a lingering cough related to bronchitis, so the 88-year-old has remained at Methodist Hospital in Houston, where officials say he is in stable condition.
President Barack Obama took some time out to hit the links with former President Bill Clinton at Joint Air Base in Maryland, where the two were joined by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and longtime Clinton backer and strategist Terry McAuliffe, who’s running for governor in Virginia in 2013.
Karen Mallet said she was more excited about the set of Wolfgang Puck knives she bought at a Milwaukee Goodwill store than the Red Nose painting she bought for $12.34 until she saw the signature of Alexander Calder, the lithograph’s artist, on the back and discovered the find is valued at $9,000.
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