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Jenna Bush Hager, 31, one of George W. Bush’s twin daughters and a Today show correspondent, gave birth in New York City to Margaret Laura “Mila” Hager, the 43rd president’s first grandchild.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire in Saudi Arabia, has indicated support for allowing women there to drive, saying on his Twitter account the move would “save more than 500,000 jobs in addition to the social and economic benefits,” as the Saudi government is working to fire and deport foreigners who illegally reside and work in the kingdom.

Ronald Perley, 52, was charged with theft and falsifying physical evidence in the theft of a since-recovered $3,200 engagement ring from a Manchester, N.H., jewelry store, with police saying he swallowed the ring, which showed up in an X-ray.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, will read a passage from the King James Bible for the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, explaining in a release that “Lady Thatcher was particularly fond of the King James Bible and found its prose to be beautifully poetic.”

Robin Mullins, 56, who works at a Cincinnati day care, has been arrested and charged with assault on claims by police that she bit a 5-year-old boy in her care “to teach him a ‘lesson’” after the boy bit another child.

Issac Brumaghim, 37, said “it was just like a rush” when a 9-foot shark jumped near his kayak and chomped on the tuna Brumaghim was reeling in off Hawaii’s Waianae Coast for a tournament, adding, “I really needed that fish for my job.”

Thein Sein, the president of Burma, marked the New Year holiday in his country with a radio address urging citizens to learn from the violence and instability that have wracked the nation over the past two years, saying, “During this long road toward democracy, we have to sustain our successes and take lessons from the losses, and be prepared to face the challenges ahead.”

Rear Adm. Richard W. Butler has been named the next commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 43 of the 166 detainees are on a hunger strike.

Abdullah Ocalan, a Kurdish rebel leader imprisoned on an island off Istanbul, said in a message shared by Kurdish legislators that he is hoping for success in peace talks with Turkey, with which the minority group has been in a deadly conflict since 1984.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/15/2013

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