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  • Dad thought she was with mum. Mum thought she was with dad. But 8-year-old Nancy wasn't with either of them. Somehow David Cameron's oldest child got left behind when everyone else went home after lunch. She was quickly reunited with her family.
  • At least 100 people were killed in the village of Tremseh earlier this month. Activists called it a massacre of innocent civilians by government forces, but later reports suggested something different. After a week with rebel fighters, NPR's Kelly McEvers learned some previously untold details about the killing.
  • Andy Cohen made the cable channel an unlikely focus of water-cooler talk by developing the Real Housewives series. After work, he hosts a nightly talk show — and he's not looking to stop doing either anytime soon.
  • A prescription drug called Suboxone helps wean people off of heroin and pain pills, but addicts have a hard time getting prescriptions. So they're turning to the black market.
  • State fair season brings a lot of weird and fried food. The Indiana State Fair decided on spaghetti-and-meatballs ice cream as its official food — gelato noodles, strawberry-tomato sauce , chocolate meatballs and a sprinkle of white chocolate "cheese." The Iowa State Fair — home of last year's hit, deep-fried butter — now offers a double-bacon corn dog.
  • As the drought continues to afflict the nation's corn belt, hog and chicken farmers are competing with ethanol factories for scarce and increasingly expensive corn. Meat producers say it's not a fair competition, because government rules call for a minimum level of ethanol production, no matter what the cost. They're campaigning for a suspension of those rules.
  • As the North Korean players were introduced, the jumbo screen flashed the players' pictures — next to a South Korean flag.
  • Teams have lost by even larger margins in the past. The Baltimore Orioles, for example, would probably like to just forget a 30-7 defeat in 2007.
  • The nation's gross domestic product grew at a 1.5 percent annual rate, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates, down from a 2 percent pace in the first quarter.
  • Rodney Dwayne Valentine asked police officers for a ride to a motel after he was released from jail. The officers said no and told him to call a cab. But he stayed put — and was arrested for trespassing. The Greensboro News and Record reports that he's back in the slammer.
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