• Jimmy Carter, the 39th president, celebrated his 90th birthday in a chapel on The Carter Center grounds in Atlanta, blowing out three candles representing the past, present and future and thanking family and friends for their support and love.
• Tom DeLay, the ex-U.S. House majority leader, saw the highest criminal court in Texas refuse to reinstate two money-laundering convictions against the Republican, ending a nearly decade-long criminal case.
• Cecilio Lopez, 44, a Spanish speleologist, was rescued in Peru after 12 days trapped about 1,300 feet underground in a cave in Peru's remote Amazon region.
• Gregory Rodriguez, an Ossining, N.Y., man who works at the A&P in nearby Croton-on-Hudson, was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, accused of leaving the store with $1,200 worth of meat hidden in his pants.
• Mohamed Mohamud, 23, a Somali-American, was sentenced in Oregon to 30 years in prison for plotting in 2010 to detonate a bomb in Portland's downtown where 10,000 revelers had gathered to watch the mayor light a Christmas tree.
• Ewa Kopacz, Poland's new prime minister, said she will seek a greater U.S. military presence in her country as the conflict in neighboring Ukraine has made Poland's security and the U.S.-Polish relationship even more important.
• Kristin Davis, 39, an ex-madam who ran against former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in the city comptroller's race in New York City last year, was sentenced to two years in prison for selling prescription drugs illegally.
• Herbert Slatery, who previously served as Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam's chief legal counsel, was sworn in as the state's 27th attorney general, the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction.
• Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister, announced that experts identified a shipwreck uncovered last month in the Arctic as the HMS Erebus, the ship British Rear Adm. Sir John Franklin was likely sailing on when it vanished 170 years ago.
• George H.W. Bush, 90, received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, given in recognition of his political courage in agreeing to a 1990 budget compromise with Democrats that reversed his 1988 campaign pledge not to raise taxes and possibly cost him re-election.
A Section on 10/02/2014