The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, delivered the opening invocation in the U.S. Senate, praying “to Buddha and all” and suggesting that purity of thought will guide humanity’s actions.
President Moncef Marzouki of Tunisia lifted a state of emergency that had been in force since his country’s 2011 uprising.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, two members of a Russian punk band who spent nearly two years in prison for their irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral, were doused with green antiseptic by five men in a McDonald’s restaurant in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod while the pair were on a trip to campaign for prisoners’ rights.
Valerie Trierweiler, the former companion of French President Francois Hollande, won her invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against gossip magazine Closer, while Julie Gayet, the actress at the center of the presidential breakup, took the publication to court, saying its revelations had shattered her life.
Pope Francis confessed that he took the rosary cross of his late confessor from his coffin in Argentina and wears it to this day in a pouch under his cassock, revealing to Roman priests that he did so telling the late priest, “Give me half your mercy.”
Lil’ Boosie, the 31-yearold rapper whose real name is Torrence Hatch, was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he had been serving an eight-year sentence on drug charges and remains on supervised parole until 2018.
Andrew Steven Jung, 25, of St. Charles, Mo., was sentenced to six years in prison for breaking into a church freezer and stealing ice cream, having told police in a videotaped interview that he was an “ice cream junkie.”
Bryon Johnston, 35, was arrested in a rape investigation in Olympia, Wash., after police, using information from a sticker on a discarded Starbucks cup that fell out of the car of the attacker in the case, examined surveillance video at the coffee shop.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., would be able to run for both his current seat and the White House in 2016 under legislation introduced in his home state clarifying that current Kentucky law, which prevents someone from running for multiple offices, does not apply to federal elections.
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