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Sgt. Jeff Gorno

of the Michigan state police said officers arrested Mark Wayne Williams, 33, after he showed up at the scene of an accident dressed as Batman and interfered with police efforts to track a driver who had left the scene, adding: “He wouldn’t clear the scene, and we had a canine out there, and he kept screwing up the scent.”

President Joyce Banda

of Malawi said she and Vice President Khumbo Kachali will take a 30 percent pay cut as part of her government’s austerity measures.

Robert Sullivan, whose 6-year-old granddaughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was the youngest person killed in the Aurora, Colo., theater shootings, is pleading with the person who burglarized his home to return a stolen memory card that contained pictures of the child, saying: “They’re the last photos I have of her.”

Dr. Adolfo Llinas, medical director of Colombia’s Fundacio Santa Fe Hospital, said Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos underwent a successful 2 1/2-hour operation for prostate cancer.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s secretarygeneral who took office in 2009, will remain in the position for an extra year until the end of July 2014, after ambassadors from the 28 NATO countries decided to extend his term.

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr ., the Chicago Democrat who took medical leave this summer and was hospitalized over bipolar disorder and gastrointestinal problems, is seeing his doctor two to three times a week, his wife said, adding that she doesn’t know if he will be allowed to return to work before the Nov. 6 election.

Jennifer Livingston, a news anchor at WKBT-TV in La Crosse, Wis., said on the air that a viewer who e-mailed her criticizing her weight and saying she wasn’t a suitable example for young people was a bully, and she urged children not to let their “self-worth be defined by bullies.”

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