Prince William, heir to the British throne, closed out his tour of Japan, laying a bouquet at a shrine gate in the city of Ishinomaki, where more than 3,000 died in a 2011 tsunami.
Samuel Sam-Sumana, Sierra Leone’s vice president, voluntarily entered a 21-day quarantine after one of his security guards died from Ebola.
Tabare Vazquez, 75, who served as Uruguay’s president from 2005 to 2010, returned to the country’s top seat, promising to let the government proceed with its plan to create the world’s first state-run medical-marijuana marketplace.
Nina Pham, 26, a nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in Dallas, is preparing a lawsuit against the hospital where she worked and its owner, Texas Health Resources, saying they violated her privacy and failed “to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.”
Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, surrendered to Los Angeles police after he was identified as the driver of a Ford Mustang that spun out of control and plowed into a crowd during a street race, killing two people.
Daniel Urresti, a retired army general and former Peruvian interior minister, has been charged in the 26-year-old murder of Hugo Bustios, a journalist shot while investigating rights abuses during a national war in 1988.
Sami Helle, a Finnish bass player, will perform with his bandmates from Pertti Kurikan Nimipaivat, a punk rock group whose musicians have learning disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome, in the Eurovision Song Contest after the group won Finland’s national competition.
Michael Shipe, 22, a Marine with a history of street racing, was charged in Honolulu with criminal property damage and terroristic threatening after authorities said he was stopped by police for speeding, then swerved his car toward an officer and later struck another officer.
Duranord Veillard, 108, and his wife, Jeanne Veillard, 104, who have been married for 82 years and are among the oldest living couples in the U.S., celebrated a combined birthday with family at their home in Spring Valley, N.Y.
Jason Brown, 36, a New York man whose license has been suspended 41 times, was nabbed again on a routine traffic stop, during which officers found marijuana and determined he had concealed heroin and cocaine “within his body,” police said.