LITTLE ROCK — Ziauddin Yousufzai, whose 15-year-old daughter, Malala, was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls’ education in Pakistan, has been appointed Pakistan’s education attache in Birmingham, England, virtually guaranteeing the girl will remain in England where she has been recovering since October.
Paige Cicardo, 22, who Pennsylvania police said drove the wrong way on Interstate 81 for 18 miles, has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and reckless endangerment.
President Barack Obama
is back in Hawaii vacationing with his family after the House passed legislation that avoids large income-tax increases for most Americans and delays for two months billions of dollars in across-the-board spending cuts that had been called a “fiscal cliff.”
Nicolas Ramirez, 32, a Fort Worth drunken-driving enforcement officer, has been placed on restricted duty after his New Year’s Day arrest in Westlake on a drunken-driving count.
Hu Jia, a Chinese activist, has urged the public to visit Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, to highlight that she has been under house arrest in Beijing since her husband, who himself is in prison, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, saying: “This should not be permitted to happen in a civilizedsociety. To rescue Liu Xia is to rescue the right of all citizens.”
Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, a three-star Army general accused of bullying subordinates, has been permitted by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to retire without a demotion in rank, said a Pentagon spokesman.
F. Lee Bailey, 79, a longtime attorney who represented such high-profile clients as O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst, but was later disbarred in Massachusetts and Florida for mishandling $6 million worth of stock for a client, has seen his request to practice law in Maine denied by the Maine Board of Bar Examiners in a 5-4 decision.
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