Michael Donley, the Air Force secretary, is stepping down in June after a five-year tenure during which he improved the service’s handling of nuclear materials but had to deal with scandals over aircraft contracts, sexual assaults by service members and the mishandling of war dead.
Ridha Khadher, a 42-year-old baker who was born in Tunisia but lives in France, said he was surprised to win the Grand Prix award for the best baguette in Paris, because he decided at the last minute to enter the contest and “didn’t believe I made the best baguette.”
Jason Servo, an Oregon officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off duty, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, saying his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act because he was suffering from alcoholism, a recognized disability under the act.
Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s defense minister, reaffirmed during a trip to Gao, Mali, that his country will keep 1,000 of its troops in Mali to fight Islamic militants even after the arrival later this year of more than 12,000 United Nations peacekeepers.
David Lee Kemp, 43, a murder suspect who had been on the run since a 1999 escape from an Oklahoma jail in which he and eight other inmates are accused of overpowering a guard by using a large barbecue fork, has turned himself in.
Sarabjit Singh, an Indian spy on death row, was critically injured when he was attacked with a brick inside a prison in Lahore, Pakistan, a prison official said.
Michael Sandlin, the owner of the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, La., is seeking a rehearing after a Louisiana appeals court said a state permit for a Bengal-Siberian tiger displayed at the business was invalid because Sandlin wasn’t Tony the tiger’s legal owner.
Basri, 36, a militant who was serving a 19-year prison sentence for beheading three Christian schoolgirls and who, like many Indonesians, goes by only one name, escaped while visiting his sick wife and is still at large, Indonesian police said.
Dan Suski, 30, and his sister Kate, 39, had to swim for 12 to 14 hours back to land after the boat they chartered began taking on water during a fishing trip off the north coast of St. Lucia, but said they don’t blame anyone for the ordeal, because “we are so grateful to be alive right now.”
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