LITTLE ROCK — President Shimon Peres
of Israel is reviewing a formal request from Gila Katsav to pardon her husband, 66-year-old former President Moshe Katsav, who is serving seven years in prison for raping a female employee when he was a Cabinet minister and sexually harassing two other women when he was president from 2000-07.
Mark Wayne Williams, 33, a Michigan man charged with resisting and obstructing police in an investigation after he was arrested at an accident scene while wearing a Batman costume, said keeping an eye on his community while dressed as the “Caped Crusader” is his way of saying “it’s not up to the government to save us.”
Kakha Kaladze, Georgia’s most famous soccer star, who played in Italy for the past dozen years, has been nominated to becomethe energy minister in the country’s new government.
Jason Hiser
and Neal Peckens, hikers from the East Coast who were rescued after being stranded for days in Montana’s Glacier National Park, survived the harsh, wintry conditions because they had the right gear and used their outdoor skills, park rangers said.
John Dalli, the European Union’s health commissioner, has resigned over corruption allegations involving tobacco laws, but the former Maltese businessman denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name.
Harold van Beek, an Iowa jeweler, is offering free rifles for husbands-tobe who each spend at least $1,999 on an engagement ring at his store near Iowa City, saying he wants to “do something for the boy who doesn’t like to hunt for diamonds but likes to hunt for deer.”
Molemo Maarohanye, a South African hip-hop star best known by the stage name Jub Jub, and Themba Tshabalala were found guilty on four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder over a 2010 drag race in which they drove cars while under the influence of drugs and plowed into a group of schoolchildren.
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