LITTLE ROCK — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, speaking to a group of students, said claims that opposition leaders had links to Western powers have not been proved despite other hard-liners' allegations after the disputed June 12 elections.
Gary Herbert, the Republican governor of Utah, said at a news conference that he doesn't believe sexual orientation should be a protected class in the way that race, sex and religion are, adding, "We don't have to have a rule for everybody to do the right thing. We ought to just do the right thing because it's the right thing to do and we don't have to have a law that punishes us if we don't."
Tom Barrett, 55, the Milwaukee mayor and Democrat who has been hailed as a hero after he was beaten while going to the aid of a grandmother calling for help in a domestic dispute, said that he isn't ruling out a run for governor of Wisconsin next year but doesn't expect to make a decision for at least a month.
Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets and six other children, will not face an investigation by Child Protective Services over a petition requesting the appointment of an independent guardian, a California appeals court ruled.
Mike Perham, 17, a British sailor, endured freeze-dried food, autopilot failures, brutal storms and accidental dunkings to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, crossing the finish line off the coast of Cornwall in southern England after nine months.
Michael Bloomberg, the Republican-turned-independent who is seeking a third term as New York mayor, said he didn't watch a primary debate between two Democrats vying to unseat him, yet said the challengers "wasted an opportunity" by attacking him instead of saying why they want to be mayor.
King Mohammed VI, 45, of Morocco has been ordered by a doctor to be placed in convalescence for five days for a digestive infection.
Alessandro Esposito, the environment commissioner at the Italian resort of Capri, said tests of the Blue Grotto's sparkling blue waters found "absolutely no pollution" as officials lifted a ban placed after a fisherman this week noted a nauseating smell and an unexplained whitish foam in the grotto.
Antonio Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles mayor and a Democrat, said he sleeps "very heavily" and didn't hear the sprinklers running at night at his Getty House mansion in violation of the city's tough watering restrictions.
Frank Canale, 83, of Scarsdale, N.Y., chased a pickup for 15 miles from New York into Connecticut, helping police catch the drunken-driving suspect who had purportedly rear-ended his car.
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