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AP - Morrisville police have charged a man with assault on a government official after an officer said the man coughed into his face during a traffic stop.

AP - He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria’s Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.

AP - A Farmington woman accused of driving for half a mile with her husband on the hood of her car and her 9-year-old child in the front passenger seat now faces criminal charges.

Reuters - China plans to spend close to 4 billion
yuan (262.5 million pounds) over the next three years to ensure
that all of its villages has a cultural centre where residents
can learn, play and be entertained, state media said.

AP - A small Russian city just got a really big addition: its resident has delivered her 12th baby at 17.05 pounds — the biggest on the nation’s record.

Reuters - Nigerian police have arrested a
witchdoctor employed by a politician to perform rituals at an
election tribunal, local media reported on Thursday.

Reuters - So many candidates are running in
Bulgaria's local elections next month that ballots stretch to 2
metres (6-1/2 ft) and won't fit into the country's largest
envelopes.

AP - He’s now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he’s having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria’s Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.

Reuters - Tonga's senior players will take the
field against England on Friday with their hair dyed green to
highlight the money problems the island nation had in making it
to the World Cup, centre Epeli Taione said on Thursday.

AP - David Harrah thought he had time for coffee before racing his pregnant wife and their eight children 15 miles to the hospital.