LITTLE ROCK — Scott Kelly, 48, the NASA astronaut chosen for an unprecedented one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, said he figures that the mission, which he will share with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, will be as grueling as climbing Mount Everest, adding: “It’s fun when you’re done with it, not while you’re doing it.”

Scott Pipher, 34, of Portsmouth, N.H., has been charged with engaging a prostitute after he called police in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, to complain that a woman he’d hired “shorted him by 10 minutes,” authorities said.

John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee anti-virus program who is wanted in Belize for questioning about the fatal shooting of neighbor Gregory Viant Faull and contends he is the victim of persecution, was arrested in neighboring Guatemala for entering the country illegally.

Naeem Davis, 30, a homeless man, has been arrested in New York on a second-degree murder charge over allegations that he approached 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han at the Times Square station, got into an altercation and pushed Han into a subway train’s path.

President Barack Obama

reassured hundreds of American Indian leaders that the administration’s programs and efforts on their behalf would continue, saying during a meeting with the group that he has “never been more hopeful about our chances.”

George H.W. Bush, the former president, remains in stable condition with a bronchitis-related cough, said a spokesman for Houston’s Methodist Hospital, who added that the 88-yearold has been increasing his physical therapy activities, getting up and moving around more than he has in previous days.

Richard Lee Norris, 37, a Hillsville, Va., man who received a full-face transplant in March to repair injuries suffered in a gun accident in 1997, said he can now walk past people without getting a second look.

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