LITTLE ROCK — Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoirs, Going Rogue: An American Life, just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, said the book's publisher.
James Davis, 19, who is accused of wrapping a tabby cat in duct tape, putting it in a shopping bag and leaving it in a neighbor's backyard, has been arrested in Philadelphia on animal-cruelty charges, said officials with the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who added that the cat is doing well.
Chesley Sullenberger, 58, the airline captain who glided his US Airways jet safely into New York's Hudson River, is returning to the cockpit and also will join the airline's flight operations safety management team, US Airways said.
Roman Polanski, 76, director of such films as Rosemary's Baby and The Pianist, "is in a fighting mood," his lawyer said, and will battle U.S. attempts to have him extradited from Switzerland to California more than three decades after he fled to France after admitting he had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Fernando Martinez
and his wife, Yolanda, who sell tacos and quesadillas out of a cart in Brooklyn, took first place at New York City's Vendy Awards, which celebrate the best of the city's street food.
Gregoire Ndahimana, one of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, who is accused in the deaths of about 2,000 Tutsis, pleaded innocent at a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania to crimes against humanity.
Former President Bill Clinton
told NBC's Meet the Press that he has no thoughts about returning to public office and that while it would be up to his wife if she wanted to make another run at the White House, "we're not getting any younger."
David Ott
fractured nine vertebrae, dislocated his shoulder and may have broken an ankle when the conductor fell 14 feet into the empty space below a moveable orchestra pit on the opening night of an opera he wrote for Florida's Pensacola Opera.
Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba's foreign minister, told the United Nations that Cuba wants to normalize relations with the United States and urged President Barack Obama to ease restrictions on American citizens' travel to Cuba and end an economic blockade.
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