The World

THURSDAY

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reassured his countrymen that his cat, Dorofei, was safe after reports it had run away swept Twitter.

A police video of George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., showed the man who shot Trayvon Martin had no obvious cuts or bandages, apparently discounting his claim the teenager attacked him before Zimmerman shot him.

An expedition funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos found the five F-1 rocket engines used to launch the Apollo 11 mission at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

A report from the Centers of Disease Control found one in 88 U.S. children have autism or a related disorder. The previous estimate was 1 in 110.

FRIDAY

Three unnamed ticket holders in Maryland, Illinois and Kansas picked the winning numbers in the $640 Mega Millions million jackpot. Those numbers for the lottery, played in 42 states and the District of Columbia, were 2-4-23-38-36 and the Mega Ball was 23.

In Manchester to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip decided to crash the wedding party of John and Frances Canning at Manchester Town Hall. The royal couple stuck around to dine, drink and take photographs with the couple and celebrants.

Governors of three beef-dependant states toured a “pink slime” factory in Nebraska, eating the processed meat-like product in a bid to persuade consumers the ammonium hydroxide-treated hamburger filler is safe to consume.

Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board voted 5-0 to order a recall election of Gov. Scott Walker, whose campaign against public employee unions sparked wild support and massive outrage across the nation.

WEEKEND

A software update by Visa prevented users of the company's 800 million credit and debit cards from using them for about 45 minutes on Sunday.

Five people were killed and 13 others injured as a motor home packed with 18 people crashed in northeast Kansas.

Rock n Roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis, 76, married for the seventh time, this time wedding his cousin’s ex-wife Judith Ann Coghlan Lewis.

MONDAY

The University of Kentucky’s Wildcats, led by unibrowed superstar center Anthony Davis, claimed its eight national basketball championship with a 67-59 win over the Jayhawks of Kansas.

Former WSU quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested by police in Montana for burglarizing a home and stealing prescription painkillers for the second time in less than three days.

Ground beef processor AFA Foods of King of Prussia, Pa., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as “Pink slime” outrage took a serious bite out of the company’s beef filler business.

A 43-year-old former student of Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., went on a shooting spree at the school that killed at least seven people and injured several others.

TUESDAY

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney won primary contests in Maryland, D.C. and Wisconsin to pad his delegate lead for the party’s nomination.

Facebook fired a counter shot at Yahoo by accusing the company of infringing on 10 of Facebook’s patents. The counter comes after Yahoo last month sued Facebook for patent infringement.

The amount U.S. citizens spent on medicine in 2011 rose 3.7 percent from 2010 to $320 billion, according to a report by IMS Health, a health care economics firm.

Up to a dozen tornadoes tore through the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ripping up homes, tossing semi-trailer trucks into the air and injuring at least 17, though no deaths were reported.

A 78-year-old Italian woman jumped from a fourth story balcony in Sicily after austerity measures by the financially-troubled government cut her monthly pension from 800 euros to 600.

WEDNESDAY

The Major League Baseball season was set to open with the world champion St. Louis Cardinals as visitors to help inaugurate the Miami Marlins new $515 million ballpark, which includes two enormous fish tanks, palm trees and an uber-kitschy home run celebration display.

A 77-year-old Greek pensioner shot and killed himself on the steps of parliament in Athens, saying he would rather die than dig through garbage for food as he would have to do under the country’s drastic austerity cuts ordered by foreign leaders in exchange for bailout loans.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.