LITTLE ROCK — Dick Cheney, 71, the former vice president who two years ago suffered his fifth heart attack since the age of 37, had a heart transplant and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office said.
Nelson Dellis, a 27-year-old Miami man who climbs mountains to call attention to Alzheimer’s disease, won the USA Memory Championship in New York City for the second year in a row and broke a record for memorizing 330 random numbers in five minutes, besting the previous record of 248 numbers in five minutes that he set last year.
Otto Perez Molina, the Guatemalan president who says the fight against drug trafficking has failed, drew only the presidents of Panama and Costa Rica and lesser representatives of two of the other four Central American nations to his meeting to discuss his proposal to legalize drugs.
P resident Barack Obama
encouraged voters during his weekly radio and Internet address to pressure Democrats and Republicans to pass a long-term transportation bill and said the economy will take a hit otherwise as construction projects sit idle.
Queen Elizabeth II
and her husband, Prince Philip, stopped for lunch in Manchester Town Hall in northern England at the same time that John and Frances Canning were getting married there, and the royal couple ended up chitchatting with the newlyweds and posing in their wedding photographs.
Hugo Chavez, the 57-year-old Venezuelan president, was to arrive today in Cuba to begin radiation therapy, one month after undergoing surgery that removed a cancerous tumor from the same spot in his pelvic region where another tumor was extracted eight months earlier.
John Goodman, a 48-year-old South Florida polo mogul, was convicted in a drunken-driving crash that two years ago resulted in the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson.
Phillip Kwon, one of Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s two nominees to the New Jersey Supreme Court, was voted down by Senate Democrats who grilled Kwon for six hours over his past affiliation as a Republican and over a pattern of cash deposits made by the liquor store that his wife and mother own.
Chang Hsiao-feng, a Taiwanese lawmaker, was the target of protests outside the Legislature after he said that men who marry foreign women are to blame for the large number of spinsters on the island.
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