• A woman who was convicted of ordering the murders of her husband and stepson was executed in Virginia yesterday. The prisoner, Teresa Lewis, had an IQ of 72, two points higher than the legal cutoff for mental retardation. [The Guardian]
• Delegates from the United States, Britain, Sweden, and Australia, among other nations, walked out of a U.N. General Assembly meeting yesterday after Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started espousing 9/11 conspiracy theories. [CNN]
• Republican politicians are not so wild about the Republican Party’s Pledge to America. [Politico]
• A previously undiscovered painting by Pieter Bruegel was identified by the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. (Incidentally, it did not resurface in Bing Crosby’s wine cellar.) If sold to private buyers, it could sell for more than 30 million dollars, according to a Spanish newspaper. [BBC]
by Juli Weiner
