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Nawaz Sharif, the 60-year-old former Pakistani prime minister who was jailed for corruption, was transferred from his cell to an Islamabad hospital over heart trouble, officials said.
Manuela Ospina Castro, a dancer with Mexico City’s Ardentia theater company, said performers “never thought this was going to have this kind of impact,” when they began putting on 58-second shows — the duration of a Mexico City traffic light — in the streets, drawing the attention of motorists, as well as photographers and videographers.
Zuhair Bahloul, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker, resigned to protest the recent passage of a law enshrining Israel’s Jewish character, saying he can no longer serve in a country that officially marginalizes the 20 percent Arab minority he represents.
Michael Kane, a spokesman for Broward County sheriff’s office firefighters in Florida, wished a trio of sea turtle hatchlings a “safe, long and healthy life” after they were rescued from a storm drain by firefighters, who collected the babies in a bucket and took them to the ocean.
Margaret Winski, 62, is handing over her post as keeper of the Montauk Lighthouse on New York’s Long Island, which she has held since the Coast Guard turned the 1796 lighthouse over to a historical society in 1987.
Donald Meyer Jr. of Duncannon, Pa., was convicted of third-degree murder and aggravated assault in the death of his 12-year-old daughter, who authorities said was shot by a constable serving eviction papers after Meyer pointed a rifle at the constable.
Sergio Bruno, 16, said his 29-year-old neighbor Moyses Arreguin spotted men trying to rob Bruno at gunpoint, ran over and used a baseball bat on one of the robbers before he was fatally shot, with Houston-area officials saying they’re seeking at least three suspects.
Robert Chody, the sheriff of Williamson County, Texas, turned to social media to find the identity and a guardian of a toddler whose father abandoned him at a pool as he fled the scene of a car crash, successfully reuniting the boy with his mother.
Lisa Beech with the Pearl River County School District in Mississippi said having school buses run practice routes for kindergartners, featuring a talk from the elementary school principal and discussion with bus drivers, was meant to make the first day of school less scary.