Alain Robert, 52, also known as “The French Spider-Man,” eschewed a safety harness as he scaled up all 1,007 feet of the twisting Cayan Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, using only chalk and sticky tape on his fingertips.
Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post journalist who has been detained in Iran for more than eight months, has been charged with “espionage” and “acting against national security,” according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Kim Kardashian, along with husband Kanye West, their daughter, her sister Khloe Kardashian and an entourage of reality-show cameramen, spent the weekend in Gyumri, Armenia, where records show some Kardashian ancestors lived.
Francis Pusok, a California man beaten by several sheriff’s deputies after a 2½-hour-long chase involving a stolen horse and who faces multiple criminal charges, is receiving medical attention in jail and doing fairly well, his lawyer said.
Cesar Gastelum Serrano, described by Mexican authorities as a leading drug trafficker for the Sinaloa cartel, was arrested in Cancun, carrying 24.7 ounces of cocaine.
Nyia Parler, 41, of Pennsylvania faces several charges, including neglect and assault, after police say she left her 21-year-old son, who is quadriplegic and has cerebral palsy, lying on the ground for several days in the woods near a Philadelphia park while she went to Maryland to visit her boyfriend.
Mary Luedeke, a justice of the peace and a rancher in western Texas, met with about 150 other landowners in opposition of plans for a 143-mile natural gas pipeline that will cut through the state’s scenic Big Bend region.
Antonious Cawthorne of Shreveport surrendered to authorities in connection with the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy during a gathering at a public park where, police say, the suspect pulled out a handgun during an argument and later fired into the crowd.
Obie Anthony, 40, who was freed in 2011 after serving 17 years in prison for a Los Angeles murder he didn’t commit, will receive $8 million in a settlement with the city.
Joe Rainey, a member of Civil War re-enactment group, described as a “once in a lifetime experience” the Missing in America funeral ceremony in Carthage, Mo., for Union veteran Maj. Raphael Guido Rombauer, whose ashes went unclaimed upon his death in 1912.