NEW YORK
UN chief lays out disarmament plan
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon outlined a five-point plan for a world free of nuclear weapons and urged the nuclear powers to open negotiations.
NEW YORK
Charles O’Byrne, the top aide to Gov. David Paterson, resigned after criticism over O’Byrne’s failure to pay $300,000 in taxes on time.
WISCONSIN
Former elk farm owner Robert Johnson was found not guilty of releasing wild pigs in western Wisconsin after a judge said the witness against him wasn’t credible.
CALIFORNIA
A Delta rocket carrying an Italian Earth observation satellite blasted off Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The payload, which is the third part of a four-satellite system, uses radar to create images for civil protection, defense, science and other purposes.
FLORIDA
Brian Hooks, 21, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a homeless man with a baseball bat in 2006 and harming two others in an attack captured on video that outraged homeless advocates.
FLORIDA
The trunk of a woman accused of killing her child has signs it held a body. Read on at chicagotribune.com/caylee
COLOMBIA
The army chief fired three colonels in the case of 11 men who disappeared from a Bogota suburb and were found dead months later in a war zone hundreds of miles away.
URUGUAY
“Very bad luck.”
–Meteorologist Fernando Toreno, commenting after lightning killed 52 cows that were leaning against a wire fence during a thunderstorm
HAITI
Haiti urgently needs a boost in relief funding to help hundreds of people still living in shelters nearly two months after a string of devastating hurricanes, UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said.
MYANMAR
A court in military-ruled Myanmar handed down prison sentences of 2 to 13 years to six opposition party members arrested after last year’s pro-democracy demonstrations, a party spokesman said.
FRANCE
French President Nicolas Sarkozy isn’t enchanted with a hot-selling voodoo doll (above) of him and wants a judge to order it pulled from shelves.
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