The World

THURSDAY

Though he could not attend the reunion, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had his status update published in the 1962 class of Harvard’s alumni book. In the guide, the 70-year-old Kaczyinski - who killed three and injured 23 in a two-decade mail bombing rampage - listed “prisoner” as his occupation. Under awards, he notes “Eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998.”

The 175-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper will reduce the number of days it publishes a print edition to three a week, making the Louisiana city the largest in the United States without a daily newspaper.

Italian doctors at Rome’s Bambino Gesu hospital saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world’s smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor could be found for a transplant.

Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after being injured in a zip-line accident, sat in a chair for hours at a time for the first time since being hospitalized with necrotizing fasciitis.

FRIDAY

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship and guided the privately owned craft into a docking berth.

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service offered $15,000 buyouts to nearly all of its 45,000 mail handlers, part of a plan to consolidate operations at 140 mail-processing facilities in the next year.

Convicted sex offenders and violent criminals were let loose from a Norway prison this week when guards went on strike, forcing authorities to free 52 inmates.

The Jackson, Miss., school district agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children.

WEEKEND

A Miami police officer shot and killed a naked man found chewing on another naked man’s face on an exit ramp of the MacArthur Causeway. Witness Larry Vega told WSVN TV in Miami the attacker failed to respond to police demands to stop attacking the victim. “The guy just stood his head up like that, with a piece of flesh in his mouth, and growled,” Vega said. The man continued his attack after being shot by police, leading the officer to fire several more shots.

The battleship USS Iowa, which served the United States during six decades at sea since World War II, set off on its final voyage on Saturday, a trip from the Port of Richmond to Los Angeles to become a museum.

An Australian woman was attacked by a kangaroo which she said “stalked” her for two days, leaving her with a 12-inch scar.

MONDAY

Sheriff’s officers in Miller County, Ark., are hunting for Quincy Vernard Stewart, 36, and Cortez Rashod Hooper, 23, who used blades from a hacksaw to saw off three bars of a jail window and escape from jail in the early morning hours.

White-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of hibernating bats in the United States, has been detected for the first time in endangered gray bats in Tennessee, a potentially “devastating” outbreak, according to government scientists.

TUESDAY

Facebook shares slid below $29 to a new low as nervous investors fled the company’s shares, concerned about the social network’s long-term business prospects and an initial $38 offering price that proved too rich.

Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory to claim 155 delegates in Texas.

Taped conversations between Manson Family killer Charles “Tex” Watson and a Texas lawyer in 1969 must be given to Los Angeles police investigating the cult’s possible involvement in unsolved murders, a judge ruled.

Bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf on Tuesday said the firm was “close” to a deal that would allow it to recover money from some of its former partners and their new firms, whom it accuses of pirating clients.

WEDNESDAY

A scarf-clad pig was spotted stopping traffic while running loose on a highway just outside Pittsburgh. Troopers could not capture the animal, nor did they know why it was so nattily-dressed.

A woman in Northampton, Mass., discovered a baby cardinal in her yard which had two heads and three beaks.

The U.S. Treasury Department levied heavy sanctions on the Syria International Islamic Bank as the government ratchets up economic pressure on the regime of President Bashar Asaad.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.