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Queen Elizabeth II received 21-gun salutes from the Royal Navy to mark her 86th birthday Saturday at military bases around the country, and a second, grander celebration is set for London’s Buckingham Palace on her “official” birthday, which falls this year on June 16.

Morgan Tsvangirai, the 58-year-old Zimbabwe prime minister whose wife of three decades died in a car wreck three years ago, has become engaged to be married and held an engagement party for his fiancee, his political party said.

President Barack Obama will mark the annual commemoration of the Holocaust during a speech Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Kevin Forts, a senior at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts who has written letters of support to Norwegian mass murder suspect Anders Behring Breivik, will not be on campus “for the foreseeable future,” officials at Assumption College in Worcester said.

Hugh Tomlinson, a victims’ lawyer, said nearly 50 new phone-hacking lawsuits have been filed against Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company, sending the total number of cases to more than 100 against News International, including ones by singer James Blunt and Cherie Blair, the wife of Britain’s former prime minister.

Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, said a guard accidentally shot himself in the leg while cleaning his gun in an employee locker room, with a police detective adding the guard was in stable condition.

Justin Chlarson, a 32year-old former Lacey, Wash., man, was ordered by an arbitrator to pay ex-wife Kendra Vorhies Flores, 23, $25,000 in the death of her cat, which Chlarson was accused of kicking in May 2010, when the two were still married.

Kyle Deon Dees, 18, of Bethlehem, Pa., was arrested after officials pulled his fingerprints off a Twix candy wrapper left in a car stolen earlier this month.

Darius Williams, 19, of Memphis, who was found walking before dawn along Interstate 240 and asked a police officer whether he was Jesus, faces charges including felony theft and aggravated assault on allegations he climbed on top of the officer’s car, scuffled with the officer, stole his car and took off the wrong way on the freeway, wrecking a short distance away.