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Prince Harry said at a charity event in London that when he met his nephew Prince George, the new baby “was crying his eyes out, as all babies do,” and added that he hopes his brother, Prince William, knows “how expensive” an uncle’s baby-sitting services are.

The Rev. Robert Schuller, 86, a televangelist who built a glass-paned sanctuary dubbed the Crystal Cathedral to house his TV ministry in Southern California, remained hospitalized after a fall, his daughter said.

Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez, a 112-yearold, self-taught musician, coal miner and gin-rummy aficionado from western New York, is the world’s oldest man, according to Guinness World Records, though the world’s oldest person is a woman, 115-year-old Misao Okawa of Japan.

Kevyn Orr, Detroit’s emergency manager, said in a radio appearance that critics of the city’s bankruptcy are quick with barbs but not with proposals to deal with billions of dollars of debt, adding, “If you want to sit around and call me names - we don’t have time for that. You’re wasting time.” President Barack Obama said after an Oval Office visit with Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang, that the two are committed to completing a regional trade agreement by year’s end, saying it will create jobs and boost investment in the Asia-Pacific region and in both countries.

Jennifer Shaw, a waitress at Mercer’s Steak and Seafood on Wilmington Island, Ga., found an envelope containing $5,000 and returned the money to the customer who lost it, receiving a $100 reward.

Kenneth Santodomingo, a 22-year-old Dallas man, was sentenced to 2½ years in prison for aiming a green laser beam at a Dallas police helicopter.

James Michael Helderle, 22, of St. Charles, Mo., a former cable-TV repairman, was sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexually assaulting a customer a day after he was fired for asking her out on a date.

Kathleen Port of Erie, Pa., was fined $500 for cursing because she was frustrated over being picked to serve on a jury.

Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s president, who is in Cuba to attend celebrations of the 60th anniversary of a failed attack on a military barracks that is considered the start of Fidel Castro’s revolution, said he had met with the retired leader and that Castro is mentally sharp as he nears his 87th birthday.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 07/26/2013

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