LITTLE ROCK — President Barack Obama
will visit China for the first time in November, said the new American ambassador in that country, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Didalco Bolivar, a former ally of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, is in Peru seeking political asylum to avoid corruption charges at home that he contends are politically motivated, his lawyer said.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, reiterated her support for a memorial to Germans forced to relocate from eastern Europe after World War II but said in Berlin it did not mean Germany was seeking to diminish responsibility for starting the war.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, 77, the Massachusetts Democrat who has made health care a core issue during his 47 years in the Senate, has been "very frustrated" to be absent from Washington during the debate over health-care legislation while he is battling brain cancer, said his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
Mariangela Simao, who is in charge of the sexually transmitted disease and AIDS programs in Brazil's Health Ministry, said that because many people have a hard time telling partners they're infected, the ministry has created a Web site to let people inform partners via an e-mailed virtual postcard they've got an STD.
Jason Kahle
took his girlfriend, Aleasha Decker, up in his dad's small plane under the guise of photographing some relatives' houses in northwestern Ohio, but really so she could see a marriage proposal, which he'd spelled out in 20-foot sheet plastic letters on top of a harvested field and which she accepted.
Charlie Crist, the Republican governor of Florida, told a group of real estate agents that he's had prayer notes placed in the Western Wall in Jerusalem each year and no major storms have hit the state, adding, "Time goes on - May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - no hurricanes. Thank God."
Arthur Frommer, the author of budget-travel guides, said on his blog that he won't be spending his tourism dollars at the Grand Canyon, or anywhere else in Arizona, because the state's laws allow people he described as "thugs" and"extremists" to openly carry firearms.
Raymond Scott, 51, a book dealer accused of stealing a rare First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, arrived at a court hearing in London in a kilt and riding a horse-drawn carriage led by a Scots piper and learned he will face trial next summer.
Jesus Acosta, owner of Acosta Tacos in Los Angeles, has been ordered to pay more than $46,000 for firing worker Marina Chavez because she used her break time to breastfeed her baby.
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