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Onyango Obama, 69, President Barack Obama’s Kenyan-born uncle who ignored a deportation order more than two decades ago, was granted permission to stay in the U.S. at a hearing in Boston.

Manil Suri, a U.S.-based novelist, won Britain’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage in his novel The City of Devi, in which the characters “streak like superheroes past suns and solar systems … [and] … dive through shoals of quarks and atomic nuclei.”

Jeanine Fowler, spokesman for the Maricopa County Department of Public Health in Arizona, said tests indicate that a passenger whose presence on a flight from Texas caused a tuberculosis scare doesn’t have the infectious disease.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, 60, the Mexican politician who has refused to accept official results that he lost the past two presidential elections, suffered a heart attack but was reported in stable condition.

Robert Deutsch, an Israeli antiquities dealer acquitted in a forgery case last year, says the trial ruined his reputation and he is suing the Israeli government for more than $3 million.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and possible 2016 presidential candidate, said while addressing a London policy institute that he fears an international agreement with Iran will let that nation keep pursuing nuclear weapons.

Matthew Huang, 37, and Grace Huang, 36, an American couple accused of killing their 8-year-old adopted daughter, will have to wait several months for a verdict, after a court in Qatar postponed the proceedings until next year.

Jesus Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, said he received a letter from fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero asking the government not to give in to the United States’ demand for his capture and extradition to try him in the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent.

James Everett Dutschke, 42, who is accused of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and a Mississippi judge, has pleaded innocent to charges that he tried to recruit someone to send another ricin-tainted letter to Wicker, a Republican.

Kristina Fetters, 33, an Iowa inmate dying from breast cancer who was 15 when she entered prison after being convicted of murder, will be allowed to spend her final days in a hospice facility.

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