Ed Murray, the mayor of Seattle, pardoned a tofu turkey named Braeburn, after the local apple variety, to draw attention to “hunger in our community” ahead of Thanksgiving and the holiday season.
Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, led visitors on a underground tour through the five stories and 106 rooms of a secretive, never-used bunker built by the communist government in the 1970s to survive a nuclear attack, a structure now open to the public for the first time.
Nicole McDonald of Garden City, Idaho, who returned from work to find her home had been robbed, called on the burglars to return, no questions asked, the decorative mahogany box they took containing her husband’s cremated remains.
Michael Gantz, 43, a former Pennsylvania state worker, faces federal charges, accused of stealing from a Department of General Services surplus-property warehouse 610 combat helmets provided by the U.S. government for local and state police forces and valued at more than $5,000.
Ngoc Van Tran, 40, who was arrested two years ago in Mexico in the 1996 killing of his wife in Amarillo, Texas, and had fought extradition by arguing he became a Mexican citizen, faces murder and other charges after finally being returned to the U.S.
Srinjoy Bose, an opposition national lawmaker in India, was arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy, involving theft from a $4 billion investment scheme that received funding from more than 1.7 million depositors before it collapsed, leaving hundreds of thousands of investors penniless.
Costas Tasoulas , Greece’s culture minister, visited an archaeological dig in northern Greece to announce the new phase of a project to search for more tombs and bodies at a vast burial mound built shortly after the death of Alexander the Great.
Kyle Seitz, 36, has pleaded innocent in Connecticut to a charge of criminally negligent homicide, accused of causing his 15-month-old son’s death in July after the boy was left in a car for seven hours on a hot day.
Theodore LeLeaux Jr., a Fresno, Calif., man who stabbed a co-worker 77 times in 1984 and cut out the man’s heart, which he put in his own jacket pocket, has been released from prison on parole after a Fresno County judge determined LeLeaux no longer posed a threat to society.