Jimmy Carter is doing fine after collapse
Former president Jimmy Carter was taken to a hospital Thursday for dehydration while in Winnipeg, according to a news report.
The92-year-old was in Canadahelping build a Habitatfor Humanity home whenhe collapsed, a volunteertold CBC News, triggeringa rush of paramedics andfirefighters to assist him.An ambulance took Mr.Carter to a hospital.
“President Carter has been working hard all week. He was dehydrated working in the hot sun and has been taken offsite for observation. He encourages everyone to stay hydrated and keep building,” a statement from the Carter Center said.
Misusing money
ROME— Two former officials of a Vaticanowned children’s hospital were charged Thursday with misappropriating nearly half a million dollars for the renovation of the luxurious apartment of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s second in command under Pope Benedict XVI. The officials — Giuseppe Profiti, the former president of the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital, and Massimo Spina, its former treasurer — were ordered to stand trial in a Vatican court next Tuesday.
The indictments were yet another sign of Pope Francis’ efforts to root out corruption in the church’s baroque bureaucracy.
Suicide bombing kills 15
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Two suicide bombings have left 15 people dead in northern Cameroon, a regional official said Thursday.
The first suicide bomber walked into a phone booth near a restaurant and detonated her explosives in the town of Waza on Wednesday, said Midjiyawa Bakary, governor of the country’s Far North region. The second bomber also managed to set off her bomb before police fired at her. The fatalities included three schoolchildren. Over 40 people were reported to have been injured.
The town, which has often been targeted by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, was sealed off.
London’s tube drivers
If you’ve taken a ride on the London tube, you’re probably familiar with the cheerful conductor announcements about delays and door openings, often premised with a jaunty, “Ladies and gentlemen.”
No more. Transport for London has announced that the London Underground staff will ditch that greeting for the genderneutral “Hello everyone” in an effort to make all passengers feel welcome. That language will also be incorporated into the prerecorded announcements made across the capital city’s transport network.
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