The World

THURSDAY

A Swedish man jumped in to subway tracks after a man who fell off the platform and was knocked unconscious as his head hits the tracks, only to grab the fallen man’s valuables and climb back on the platform leaving the victim on the track. The thief, still at large, waved to the ticket vendor on his way out as the train ran over the victim. All was caught on surveillance cameras.

Halliburton lost a seven-inch radioactive rod which contains a radiation warning symbol with the words “Danger Radioactive: Do not handle. Notify civil authorities if found”, was lost during a 130-mile journey between oil well sites in Pecos and Odessa. The National Guard was called in to help to find the device. The three-man Halliburton crew, who had been using the rod to identify oil and gas deposits suitable for fracking, was cleared of wrong-doing by the FBI.

Riots which resulted in the storming of U.S. and other foreign embassies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East over the 13-minute English-language movie “Innocence of Muslims,” which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and portrays him as a buffoon, circulated on the Internet.

Scientists in the Democratic Republic of Congo claim they discovered a new species of monkey named Cercopithecus Lomamiensis, only the second such discovery in nearly 30 years.

FRIDAY

Twitter handed tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge after months of fighting a subpoena from prosecutors.

Wisconsin’s controversial law that limited the rights of public sector unions and sparked recall elections was struck down by a Wisconsin judge.

A judge sentenced Oklahoma man Larry Austin to four years in federal prison on a firearm charge, then minutes later married the new inmate and his longtime girlfriend, Dustie Trojack. Talk about a ball and chain.

WEEKEND

The United States ordered non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Tunisia and Sudan after both diplomatic posts were attacked and Khartoum rejected a U.S. request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at its embassy there.

Dennis Haskins, who played bewildered principal Mr. Belding on the early-’90s teen show “Saved by the Bell,” served as guest commissioner at a pro wrestling event in New Jersey. The 61-year-old actor also slammed a much younger grappler to the ground while the crowd roared in approval.

Gerald Gronowski had a flat tire east of Cleveland when a man named Christopher Manacci stopped to help. During the encounter, Gronowski began talking about another stranger eight years before who had helped him pull out a hook that got stuck in his hand while he was fishing. They then figured out that Manacci was that same man. He also offered to take Manacci fishing, but Manacci says that considering the bad luck Gronowski has had fishing, they should go bowling instead.

MONDAY

Family members of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, the man linked to an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world were escorted by sheriff’s deputies from their suburban Los Anglees home to an undisclosed location.

Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-year anniversary with a day of demonstrations that resulted in nearly 150 arrests but failed to produce the turnout or fervor that first propelled the movement into the national conversation. Wall Street’s landmark Charging Bull, a 7,100-pound bronze sculpture, received extra police protection.

Giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth at Washington’s National Zoo ending the zoo’s seven-year spell without panda offspring.

TUESDAY

Navy Cmdr. Michael P. Ward II, a Navy officer who was dismissed last month as commander of a Connecticut-based nuclear submarine, faked his own death to end an affair he was carrying on with a mistress.

Volunteer firefighter Nathaniel Fay Bartholomew, 18, Boise, was arrested on suspicion of deliberately setting a forest fire that has destroyed one home and was threatening hundreds of others northeast of Boise.

Japan gave the controversial MV-22 Osprey aircraft the green light to fly over the country next month after tests found the American hybrid plane safe despite a number of crashes.

WEDNESDAY

Some 350,000 Chicago students returned to school after the 29,000 striking Chicago public school teachers and support staff accepted a new contract and ended their strike.

Syrian rebels took full control of the Tel Abyad border gate on the Turkish frontier after battling Syrian government forces.

“Crazy” Daniel Barrera, one of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers, was captured in neighboring Venezuela. British and U.S. intelligence agencies arrested 36 members of his gang and seized five tons of cocaine and 21 aircraft.

Compiled by Gazette staff from a variety

of sources.