Chuck Norris, the martial-arts star and evangelical Christian, has endorsed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, saying in a column published by the conservative Web site WorldNet-Daily that Huckabee "has lived a life of integrity, commitment, truthfulness and respect."
Laura Bush, the first lady, helped launch a cancer-screening facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on her tour of the Middle East to raise awareness about breast cancer, saying, "Breast cancer does not respect national boundaries, which is why people from every country must share their knowledge, resources and experience to protect women from this disease."
Garrison Keillor, 65, host of the public radio show A Prairie Home Companion, has gotten a restraining order against Andrea R. Campbell, 43, of Hawkinsville, Ga., who he says made telephone calls, showedup at his St. Paul, Minn., home and sent him explicit e-mails and disturbing gifts, including a petrified alligator foot and dead beetles.
Robert A. Sturgell, 48, a former trainer of Navy fighter pilots who has been deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration since 2003, is President Bush's pick to run the agency for the next five years, the White House said.
Eino, a Finnish-born sculptor who uses only one name, is nearly finished rebuilding his 175-ton, 22-foot-high sculpture Spaceship Earth which collapsed in December at Georgia's Kennesaw State University.
Robert Chambers, 41, who served 15 years in prison for the 1986 strangling of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park during what he said was rough sex, is facing 14 counts of drug possession and sale after New York police said he repeatedly sold undercover officers cocaine.
Traian Basescu, Romania's president, has apologized for the deportation of more than 25,000 Gypsies to Nazi death camps during World War II, the first time a government official has done so publicly.
Fidel Castro, 81, Cuba's ailing leader, wrote in Cuban news media that President Bush is threatening the world with "World War III, this time using atomic weapons" and famine because of U.S. support for using corn and other food crops to produce fuel.
William Flynn, 33, who was 16 when his 22-year-old lover Pamela Smart recruited him to murder her husband, Gregory Smart, at the couple's Derry, N.H., condominium, is asking a judge to reduce his prison sentence 11 years before he is set to become eligible for parole, saying he waited to ask for a sentence reduction until he had spent as many years behind bars as he had free.
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