LITTLE ROCK — Camilla Meiby, spokesman for Ikea, the Swedish furniture chain, said the firm didn't expect such an Internet backlash after making its first typeface change in 50 years, switching from Futura to Verdana in its latest catalog, adding, "I think it's mainly experts who have expressed their views, people who are interested in fonts. I don't think the broad public is that interested."
Diego Palacio, Colombia's social protection minister, said President Alvaro Uribe, 57, is "developing satisfactorily" in his treatment for swine flu at Bogota's presidential palace, adding that his case is not considered high-risk and that officials who have had contact with the leader are being notified.
Bernardo Ismachowiez, an architect who designed an Asuncion, Paraguay, supermarket where 420 people died in a 2004 fire, saw his conviction upheld for defective design on arguments that there weren't enough emergency exits.
Vice President Joe Biden
told the crowd of the Little League World Series title game in South Williamsport, Pa., that he played youth baseball, starting out as an 8-year-old playing shortstop for the Green Ridge Little League in Scranton before moving to center field.
Jami Rodriguez
and her family from Idaho Falls, Idaho, were unhurt after a carriage ride in which the horse became spooked and ran several blocks through downtown Salt Lake City, clipping a bank building, running over the bicycle of a police officer trying to help and stopping only after running into a parked car.
Leonard Caira, 26, of Sudbury, Mass., was arrested on charges of wanton destruction of property and other counts after police say they found at his home a skull, jaw and other bones stolen from several 19th-century burial vaults at two cemeteries and was later released on bond with orders to stay away from human remains, burglar's tools and cemeteries.
Vincent Fumo, 66, a former Democratic state senator in Pennsylvania convicted of defrauding the Senate and two nonprofits of several million dollars, was set to begin a 4 1 /2 year sentence in an Ashland, Ky., prison today.
Freddy Nock, a Swiss tightrope walker, raised $19,000 for charity by scaling the 3,264-foot-long cable-car line on Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain, in 50 minutes and using only a balancing pole.
Jorge Zorrilla, 52, of El Sobrante, Calif., a former instructor at San Quentin State Prison, was charged with smuggling heroin into the penitentiary after an internal inquiry unit picked up "chatter" that he was planning to sneak in drugs and confronted him as he arrived for work, said Lt. Sam Robinson, a prison spokesman.
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