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King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck of Bhutan and Queen Jetsun Pema gave a name to their 2½-month-old son, Crown Prince Jigme Namgyal Wangchuck, at a religious ceremony coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the arrival in what is now Bhutan of Ngawang Namgyal, a Tibetan Buddhist lama.

Maurice Ashley, 50, who earned the title of grandmaster in chess in 1999, was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, the first black person to be so honored.

Muriel Bowser, mayor of the District of Columbia, which lacks full representation in Congress, issued a call for a citywide referendum in November on whether the nation’s capital should become the 51st state.

Robert Hannigan, chief of GCHQ , the British digital intelligence agency, issued an apology for its longtime prejudice against gay people, including World War II code-breaker Alan Turing, saying that the fact “it was common practice for decades … does not make it any less wrong.”

President Francois Hollande of France, in Beirut on a tour of the Middle East, praised Lebanon’s sheltering of more than 1.5 million refugees as it’s “surrounded by crisis and wars” and vowed $56.4 million in aid to boost Lebanon’s security.

Claude Steele, 70, the provost at the University of California-Berkeley, who faced criticism last year for not firing a Berkeley law school dean after the dean was named in a sexual-assault lawsuit, has resigned from his post, citing a need to focus on his wife’s health concerns.

Kelly Campbell, director of Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Texas, reported that a worker for the FedEx Express hub in Memphis found himself on an early morning flight to the Lone Star State after he fell asleep in the plane’s cargo hold.

Alesha Palmer, 18, a server at Vetoni’s Italian Restaurant in Gun Barrel City, Texas, said she was waiting on a table and telling customers about her college plans when a man at a nearby table got up, paid his bill and left Palmer a $1,000 tip.

Toby Ricketts, 35, and Marianna Fenn, 33, tied the noodle, er, knot in Akaroa, New Zealand, in the world’s first legally recognized Pastafarian wedding, officiated by Ministeroni Karen Martyn, with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a movement founded on religious parody.

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