Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told radio station KFYI-AM in Phoenix that he’s considering running for a sixth term in 2016, the year he turns 80.

Jeffrey Zients, who is to take over as director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council on Jan. 1, will provide management advice on a short-term basis to help fix the flawed online health-insurance marketplace.

Jeff Horton, a 25-yearold Hawaii surfer and former boxer, survived a face off with a shark off Kauai by landing eight blows with his fist, including “one nice punch into the eye,” and got away with only scratches from the shark’s rough skin and a damaged surfboard.

Phillip Coon, a 94-yearold Tulsa-area survivor of a World War II POW labor camp and the Bataan Death March, received some overdue medals, including the Prisoner of War Medal, the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman Badge, at an informal ceremony at the Tulsa International Airport after a trip to Japan to promote understanding and healing with the U.S.

Jose Antonio Meade, Mexico’s top diplomat, told reporters in Geneva that President Barack Obama has promised an investigation into spying the U.S. reportedly did on Mexico’s presidential email system.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former longtime political prisoner, finally collected the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights at a ceremony in Strasbourg, France.

Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Iran’s justice minister, said there is “no need for re-execution” of a 37-yearold convicted of smuggling drugs who morgue technicians discovered was alive a day after he was hanged.

Michael Sean Stanley, a violent sex offender who recently fled Canada, is now suspected of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in Seattle just days after arriving in the city and has been arrested, police said.

Kevin Trudeau, 50, a television pitchman accused of hoodwinking viewers about his weight-loss books, made an impassioned plea for his freedom before a federal judge in Chicago who instead ordered U.S. marshals to lock up Trudeau for failing to pay a $37 million civil judgment.

Prince George, the son of Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, is to receive a wildflower meadow in the Transylvanian hills, said Count Tibor Kalnoky, a friend of young George’s grandfather Prince Charles.

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