Nik Wallenda, an aerialist, completed a 600-foot tightrope walk more than 100 feet above the Georgia Dome field at a Christian music gathering, saying afterward that he imagined what it must be like to score a touchdown as the crowd of 30,000 cheered him on in the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons.
Delwar Hossain and Mahmuda Akter, the owners of the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. garment factory where 112 workers were killed in a November 2012 fire, surrendered to Bangladeshi authorities to face homicide charges that could mean sentences of seven years to life in prison.
John Kerry, the U.S. secretary of state, will visit Asia this week for the fifth time since taking the post, the State Department announced, adding that his trip will include stops in South Korea, China and Indonesia.
Duduzane Zuma, the son of South African President Jacob Zuma, is being investigated in a case of negligent killing and could face charges, police said, after his luxury car collided with a minibus taxi Feb. 1, killing one person and injuring two others.
Kimberly Haman, who lives in unincorporated St. Louis County, Mo., filed a federal lawsuit against Heartland Bank and Equifax, alleging she has been unable to refinance her mortgage or get approved for credit cards because the two companies listed her as dead and refused to help her fix the problem.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, topped The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the U.S.’ most generous givers in 2013, after the couple donated 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit.
Artem Kozlov, a Ukrainian man who police say claimed he had a bomb in an attempt to divert a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, the site of the Olympic games, has been arrested in Turkey on hijacking and hostage taking charges.
Alassane Ouattara, the Ivory Coast president, underwent surgery in France for sciatica, a form of nerve pain, and plans to return to his country “after a period of rest,” his office said.
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