LITTLE ROCK — Dick Cheney, the 69-year-old former vice president, was expected to be released from George Washington University Hospital today after being treated for a fluid buildup related to his aggressive form of heart disease, daughter Liz said.
David Ross, an Aboriginal leader, called for French born exotic dancer Alizee Sery, 25, to be deported from Australia after she was filmed stripping on Uluru, also called Ayers Rock, a tourist attraction and sacred site for the indigenous tribe.
Miladin Kovacevic, 23, a former college basketball player from Serbia who jumped bail in the U.S. after being accused of beating American student Bryan Steinhauer into a coma in upstate New York, will go on trial in his native country, the First Municipal Court in Belgrade has said.
Prince Harry, 25, of Britain capped off a three day visit to New York with a polo match against the equestrian game’s top star, Argentinian player Nacho Figueras, to benefit a charity supporting at-risk children in Lesotho, in southern Africa, as part of the prince’s pledge to continue his mother’s fight against HIV.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, said after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad that the two countries view the U.S. and Israel as “common enemies,” describing them as “the Yankee empire, the genocidal state of Israel.”
Marcus Schrenker, a former Indiana money manager who is serving four years in prison for trying to fake his death in a plane crash, is seeing many of his belongings auctioned off,including the motorcycle he used to flee after parachuting from his plane.
Dana Kelley, police chief of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, said funeral and memorial services for Thomas Mayne, an Outlaws motorcycle club member slain by federal agents, were peaceful amid heavy security and sightings of rival gang members, adding that the Outlaws had “all been polite.”
Howard Schmidt, White House cyber coordinator, has revealed a plan to create a voluntary online identification system to protect users’ personal data and is seeking input on how it should be structured.
Greg Moore, spokesman for Republican New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate John Stephen, said plans were scrapped for a fundraiser barbecue after it was revealed the organizer had planned a bikini contest, adding the candidate “in no way endorses this.”
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