Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Burma who spent years as a political prisoner in her homeland, was finally able to receive in person the honorary citizenship of Rome, which had conferred the honor on her in absentia in 1994.
Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham of the band Fleetwood Mac have canceled 14 planned performances in Australia and New Zealand as bassist John McVie is treated for cancer.
Geomel Alphonso Shaffa, 21, of El Paso, Texas, was jailed on charges of attempted murder after police say he threw his 21-year-old wife, who suffered rib, skull, back and lung injuries, from a third-floor balcony during an argument.
Benjamin Jealous, the president of the NAACP, told a Salt Lake City audience that voting laws aimed to undermine the coalition that helped elect President Barack Obama are the No. 1 issue facing Americans.
Wade Allen Perkins, an ex-Army sergeant from Texas who blamed post-traumatic stress disorder for sexually assaulting a 3-yearold boy, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, and has also acknowledged to authorities that he coerced his girlfriend, ex-Army Sgt. Kimberly Dianne Epperson, into sex acts with the child.
Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, has asked a state judge to release sealed documents about the 1971 riot and retaking of Attica state prison in an effort to reveal the full history of the nation’s bloodiest prison rebellion in which 11 staff and 32 inmates died - all but four shot by troopers and correction officers.
Ray Teret, 72, the former driver for the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile, appeared in court to face 32 charges, including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault, that purportedly occurred between 1962 and 1996 and involved 15 girls, all under the age of 16 at the time.
Pope Francis, chatting with former students of Jesuits from Uruguay, said he doesn’t know when he will visit Argentina, but a trip to his homeland won’t come before 2016 at the earliest, but said when he did he would also visit Chile and Uruguay.
Anthony Johnson, 50, a Philadelphia man who authorities say crawled along movie theater floors to steal credit cards from women’s purses, has been sentenced in federal court in Connecticut to 16 years in prison.
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