Desmond Tutu, the 81-year-old South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate and retired archbishop, has checked into a Cape Town hospital for treatment of a persistent infection but was in good spirits, according to the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation.
President Barack Obama told NBC’s Today that he has a strategy to discourage his daughters from rebelling, saying he told Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, that if they ever decide to get a tattoo, then “mommy and me” will get the same tattoo in the same places on their bodies and show it off on YouTube as a “family tattoo.”
Hussein Anani, an Egyptian prosecutor who cited the Koran as he ordered police to flog a man with 80 lashes for public drunkenness, has been suspended and put under investigation, the prosecutor-general’s office said.
Neil Sauter, 29, an Ann Arbor man with mild cerebral palsy who trekked 830 miles across his home state on 9-foot stilts to raise about $85,000 for charity, is in the middle of a 400-mile stilt walk to get money for the United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan nonprofit.
Duncan Larcombe, a senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper, is being charged with conspiring to pay roughly $35,000 in bribes in return for tips about the British royal family.
Kent Hendrix, a Salt Lake City Mormon bishop and martial-arts instructor, used a 29-inch-long high carbon steel samurai sword to help a neighbor escape an attack by a man who had been stalking her, saying later, “Some people have bats they go to. I have my sword.”
Hans Lipschis, 93, who acknowledges that he served with the SS in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in Poland but claims he was only a cook, is under investigation by German officials as an accessory to murder.
Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, a Democrat, said in Jerusalem during an eight-day Mideast tour that he is considering a run for the White House in 2016 but he needs more “reflection time” before he makes a decision.
Estela de Carlotto, president of the Argentine human-rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, met with Pope Francis to ask him to open the Vatican archives in hopes it will offer clues to the whereabouts of an estimated 500 children taken from political prisoners during the country’s 1976-83 military dictatorship and said he told her, “You can count on me.”
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