The World

THURSDAY

Military officials found what is believed to be old aircraft wreckage, along with some possible bone tissue, scattered on a glacier near Anchorage.

A middle-class family with a child born in 2011 can expect to spend about $234,900 in the next 17 years on food, shelter and other necessities, according to a USDA report.

An Indiana man convicted of forcing his young grandsons to hike through the Grand Canyon in triple-digit temperatures was sentenced to 27 months in prison for child abuse.

Requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets resulted in 1,500 fewer deaths and saved more than $3 billion in health care costs in 2010, according to a study by the Center for Disease Control.

Scientists reviewing six bones found two years ago in Bulgaria found an analysis of their genetic code means they are indeed relics of John the Baptist, the man who baptized Jesus.

FRIDAY

Aerialist Nik Wallenda made a historic tightrope crossing over Niagara Falls, stepping onto safe ground in Canada to wild cheers after completing his 1,800-foot journey through wind and mist on a 2-inch cable.

The Voyager 1 space probe, launched in 1977, reached the edge of the solar system. The spacecraft, which is about 18 billion kilometers from the Sun, is sending back data to Earth showing a sharp increase in charged particles that originate from beyond the solar system.

About 800,000 young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children could be spared deportation for at least two years under new rules announced by President Barack Obama.

Norberto Gonzalez-Claudio, 67, a Puerto Rican nationalist on the run for almost 30 years, admitted to his role in a $7 million armored car robbery in Connecticut in 1983.

WEEKEND

Rodney King, the black man who came to symbolize racial tensions in the United States after his 1991 beating by police led to riots in Los Angeles a year later, was found dead in a swimming pool on Sunday in Rialto, California at age 47.

China sent 33-year-old fighter pilot Liu Yang into space as the country’s first female to leave Earth’s atmosphere.

The U.S. military’s unmanned X-37B robotic space shuttle returned from orbit at 5:48 a.m. in California from a secret 15-month test flight.

A South Korean woman spit out a mouthful of semi-cooked squid only to have doctors later find the 63-year-old woman had “small, white spindle-shaped bug-like organisms”, actually the squid’s sperm sacks, lodged in the mucous membrane of her tongue, cheek and gums.

MONDAY

Remains of a woman killed by Gary Ridgway, the “Green River Killer” convicted of killing 49 women, were identified 30 years after she went missing thanks to DNA evidence provided by her family.

A jury acquitted Major League Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens of all six criminal counts against him in a trial on charges that he lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

Schaeffer Cox, 28, founder of the Alaska Peacekeepers Militia, and two followers were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and of various weapons offenses in a plot to kill government officials and law enforcement officers.

South African university student Ludwick Marishane won the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his invention called DryBath, a clear gel applied to skin that allows users to bathe without needing water.

TUESDAY

Ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was transfered to a Cairo military hospital from prison after officials said the ousted leader had suffered a health crisis. Senior officers said the 84-year-old was in a coma and on life support, not clinically dead, as state media reported.

Fred Luter, a New Orleans pastor, was named the first black president of the 167-year-old Southern Baptist Convention.

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange took refuge in Ecuador’s embassy in London and asked for asylum in a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crime accusations.

Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak on an uninhabited island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage, had an explosive eruption that shot a thin cloud of ash several miles into the sky, which could pose a slight hazard to aircraft.

A suspected Oklahoma car thief was found by police, hog-tied and suspended from a fence by the rodeo-champion woman whose car he tried to steal.

WEDNESDAY

Syrian rebels stormed army barracks in the northwestern province of Latakia and killed at least 20 troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.