Michael Jordan got married over the weekend in front of a few hundred of his family and closest friends.The Charlotte Bobcats owner exchanged vows with 35-year-old former model Yvette Prieto on Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida, Jordan’s manager Estee Portnoy told the Associated Press Sunday.The wedding took place at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea with nearly 300 guests in attendance, including Tiger Woods, Patrick Ewing, Spike Lee and Ahmad Rashad.The ceremony was followed by a recep

TOKYO (AFP) ― Japan’s Crown Princess Masako, who has been undergoing treatment for a stress-induced illness for a decade, departed for the Netherlands on Sunday in her first trip abroad in nearly seven years.Accompanying her husband, Crown Prince Naruhito, the 49-year-old former diplomat left Tokyo Sunday on an official visit to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam to attend the coronation of Willem-Alexander on April 30.It is her first overseas trip since Naruhito’s family spent about two weeks at a

New documents show that former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni showered President Obama and his family with more than $41,000 worth of gifts in 2011.The presents to the Obamas ranged from Hermes travel bags and crystal to soaps and perfumes, according to the State Department, which tracks gifts to U.S. officials from foreign leaders and publishes an annual accounting, often one or two years late due to processing. The latest was published Friday. The Sarkozys were the t

As the relations between South Korea and Japan turn confrontational, anti-Korea rallies in Japan have escalated to a point where they disgust even some of its members.Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun on Sunday reported on a Japanese man who used to take part in such rallies but fell out after the protests turned violent. The 39-year-old man -- identified only as Namanushi -- said he had been discontent with his country getting the blame every time it got into a historical or territorial dispute

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AFP) ― Bangladesh made a string of arrests on Saturday over the collapse of a factory complex which killed at least 351 people as exhausted rescuers battled to find more survivors among the corpses.Twenty-nine people were pulled alive on Saturday from the rubble of the eight-storey Rana Plaza compound which caved in Wednesday morning while thousands of garment workers were stitching clothes for Western brands.Emergency workers, gulping breaths of air freshener to mask the sten

Italy’s new center-left prime minister Enrico Letta ended two months of political deadlock by naming his Cabinet on Saturday amid heightened hopes from financial investors and international observers. Letta pulled off a deal on the formation of a new government, a coalition that brings together Letta’s Democratic Party and the People of Freedom Party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Letta, who speaks fluent English, has built up solid relations on both sides of parliament and is also

BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) ― A man was charged Saturday with making and possessing ricin for use as a weapon as part of the investigation into poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others, authorities said.U.S. attorney Felicia Adams and Daniel McMullen, the FBI agent in charge in Mississippi, made the announcement in news release Saturday following the arrest of 41-year-old James Everett Dutschke.FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden said Dutschke was arrested after midnight Saturday

REYKJAVIK (AFP) ― Iceland’s center-right opposition declared victory early Sunday in parliamentary elections, as voters punished the incumbent leftist government for harsh austerity measures during its four years at the helm.It marked a return to power for the rightwing Independence Party and the centrist-agrarian Progressive Party, which both want to end the Atlantic island nation’s European Union accession talks.“The Independence Party is called to duty again,” Bjarni Benediktsson, the party’s

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― President Barack Obama poked fun at himself, his political opponents and the news media at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday, an annual event where the U.S. leader takes good-natured jabs at his adversaries.Obama joked about how his re-election would give him the chance to carry out a radical agenda. But he had aged in the job. “These days I look in the mirror and have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim Socialist that I used to be,” he said, mocking tha