EVANGELIST VISITS ISRAEL: American evangelist John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to Israeli causes on Sunday and said Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem. Hagee, a Christian Zionist, has been in the spotlight for endorsing GOP presidential candidate John McCain and criticizing the Catholic Church.
MARATHON BOMBED: A suicide bomber killed 14 people at an opening ceremony for a marathon in Sri Lanka on Sunday, including a government minister and former Olympian K.A. Karunaratne. More than 90 others were wounded in the attack, which officials blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.
GRAVES VANDALIZED: Vandals defaced the graves of Muslim World War I soldiers in northern France and left behind a severed pig’s head at the cemetery, a prosecutor said Sunday.
PRINCE RELEASED: Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, 86, left a London hospital Sunday after three days of treatment for a chest infection.
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