Norwegian rampage culprit calm, expects life in jail for terror attacks
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The self-described perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway told authorities he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison, but two other cells in his terror network could still launch attacks, officials said Monday.
Anders Behring Breivik has admitted bombing Norway’s capital and opening fire on a political youth group retreat, but he entered a plea of not guilty, saying he acted to save Europe from Muslim immigration.
South African man wakes up in morgue after sleeping for 21 hours
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.
Health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the man awoke Sunday, 21 hours after his family called in an undertaker who sent him to the morgue after an asthma attack.
The morgue owner said he sent his driver to collect the body shortly after the family reported the death. The owner said he thought the man was around 80 years old.
United Nations races to get food, rations to starving Somali refugees
DOLO, Somalia (AP) — The U.N. will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia.
The foray into the famine zone is a desperate attempt to reach at least 175,000 of the 2.2 million Somalis whom aid workers have not yet been able to help.
Many have already trekked to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, hoping to get aid in refugee camps.
Some Somalis literally have nothing left.
Hundreds of couples wed on first day gay marriage legal in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of gay couples dressed in formal suits and striped trousers, gowns and T-shirts recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates on Sunday as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognize same-sex weddings.
Couples began saying “I do” at midnight from Niagara Falls to Long Island, though New York City became the sometimes raucous center of action.
Teens participating in back-country course mauled by grizzly in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Teenage outdoor education students, having progressed to the point of being on their own in the vast Alaska wilderness, were lined up single file for a river crossing when a grizzly burst with fury into the front of the line, badly mauling two in the group and injuring two more.
Those in the front screamed of the bear’s presence. The bear was with her cub when she attacked, according to state troopers.
The teens were participating in a back-country course.
NOPD officer insists he saw armed person on Danziger Bridge
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A police officer heard on a conversation recorded by the FBI insisted repeatedly that he saw a civilian with a gun on the New Orleans bridge where police allegedly shot and killed two unarmed people and wounded four others after Hurricane Katrina.
A tape of that conversation between Officer Anthony Villavaso and a former officer, Robert Barrios, was played Monday for jurors in the federal trial of five current or former officers charged in the shootings on the Danziger Bridge less than a week after the 2005 storm.
New Orleans Airport employee shot in leg by passenger’s hunting rifle
KENNER, La. (AP) — An airport employee was accidentally shot when a hunting rifle discharged a round as it was being checked as baggage at the United Airline ticket counter.
Sgt. Larry Dyess of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office says it happened about 10:30 a.m. Monday as the firearm was in the process of being cleared as checked baggage. It then hit the employee in the leg.
 
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