Family of 6 killed
A NATO airstrike on a compound in southwestern Afghanistan killed a family of six, a local tribal leader said Thursday, despite orders from the top U.S. commander to avoid airpower if civilians are at risk.
Report: Jackson wasn’t sickly
Michael Jackson’s arms were covered with punctures, his face and neck were scarred and he had tattooed eyebrows and lips, but he wasn’t the sickly skeleton of a man portrayed by tabloids, according to his L.A County autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
Atomic agency going in
The International Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva says its director will visit Iran to discuss issues related to the country’s nuclear program. An IAEA statement says Mohamed ElBaradei was “invited to Tehran by Iranian authorities. He will travel there soon to discuss a number of matters.”
Gay marriage proposal
A Washington, D.C., councilman says he’ll introduce a bill next week to allow same-sex couples to wed. D.C. Councilman David Catania says he plans to introduce the bill Tuesday.
Hawking steps down
Physicist Stephen Hawking stepped down Wednesday as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University after 30 years in the post. The roughly 350-year-old position has been held by such luminaries as Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage, one of the fathers of modern computing.
Stop that llama!
Dublin’s traffic is often snarled, but this could be the first time llamas are to blame. Five of the South American animals along with two goats ran rampant Thursday on the Irish capital’s major ring road, the M50, causing 5-mile traffic jams.
