Queen Elizabeth II, 86, needed no convincing to appear in a James Bond-themed skit during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics and in fact volunteered, Danny Boyle, the show’s director, said in an interview on ITV.
Anders Behring Breivik, the 34-year-old Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011, has said he would like to attend the funeral of his mother, his lawyer said.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, wrote on his Facebook page that concern that Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons could reach militant groups bordering Israel and Turkey was the motivating factor in restoring relations with Ankara after a three year rift.
Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist, and her publisher announced that they are postponing the release of her new book, Seeds of Hope, after revelations that it contains at least a dozen passages borrowed without attribution from various websites.
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, responded to widespread criticism of his plan to close 54 Chicago public schools, saying he wasn’t interested in doing what was politically easy and that the pain of the closings doesn’t compare to the anguish of “trapping” kids in failing schools.
David Ranta, 58, a New York City man whose murder conviction in the 1990 killing of Brooklyn Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger was overturned after 23 years in prison, suffered a heart attack on his second day of freedom.
Ronnie Musgrove, a Democrat who served one term as Mississippi’s governor, said on the Huffington Post that he now regrets signing a state law in 2000 that bans same-sex couples from adopting children and said same-sex couples should have the right to marry.
John Saunders, 62, the former live-in caretaker of a Pittsburgh-area mansion, faces criminal charges on allegations of drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner’s Old Farm Pure Rye Whiskey, which was produced in the early 1900s and had been found hidden in the walls and stairwell of the century-old Georgian mansion built by coal and coke industrialist J.P. Brennan.
Kimberly Crain, 50, a former Oklahoma schoolteacher who pleaded no contest to child pornography and exploitation charges, and could have been sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts, changed her plea to guilty and agreed to accept a 45-year prison sentence.
Front Section, Pages 1 on 03/24/2013