Commander found

Commander found
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro -- Gen. Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, has been located in Serbia and authorities are negotiating his surrender, security officials said Tuesday. Mladic, considered the most ruthless commander of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, "has not yet been arrested," one official who is close to the operation to find Mladic told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not entitled to speak to the media. Another security official, also demanding anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information and fears of jeopardizing negotiations, confirmed that Mladic's "hiding place has been discovered in recent days."
Harvard president quits
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Lawrence H. Summers ended his tumultuous stint as Harvard University president Tuesday, choosing to resign June 30 rather than fight with a faculty angered by his management style and comments that innate ability may explain why few women reach top science posts. "I have reluctantly concluded that the rifts between me and segments of the Arts and Sciences faculty make it unfeasible for me to advance the agenda of renewal that I see as crucial to Harvard's future," Summers wrote in a letter posted on the school's Web site. Effective at the end of the academic year, Summers' move brings to a close the briefest tenure of any Harvard president since 1862, when Cornelius Felton died after two years in office. Summers has led America's wealthiest university since 2001.
Kidnapped driver released
AMMAN, Jordan -- A kidnapped Jordanian embassy driver has been released in Baghdad, Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit said Tuesday. The driver, Mahmoud Suleiman Saidat, was abducted Dec. 20 near his home in Baghdad. Al-Bakhit told the Petra news agency that Saidat "was released after thorough efforts over the past two months, and he is in a safe place." Saidat had worked at the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad for four years. He was kidnapped by a little-known group that demanded that Jordan cut ties with the Iraqi government and release the female would-be suicide bomber whose explosives belt failed to detonate in November attacks that killed 63 people at three Western-based hotels in Amman. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks.
SEC official back on job
WASHINGTON -- Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox returned to work Tuesday after several weeks recovering from surgery to remove a tumor, the agency said. Cox, 53, had surgery Jan. 30 to remove a thymoma, a tumor on the thymus gland that regulates development of the immune system and is located in the chest above the heart. Thymomas are not always cancerous. The SEC has provided no details of Cox's medical condition. Cox was nominated last spring by President Bush and became head of the SEC in August after 16 years in Congress as a California Republican.
Cub notices father
WASHINGTON -- At 7 months old, the National Zoo's panda cub has finally noticed his father. Zoo officials said the cub, Tai Shan, is spending more time exploring his outdoor enclosure and lounging away from his mother. And, he has shown signs of recognizing that another adult panda is often in another exercise yard just beyond the fence. "He noticed his father over the weekend," Lisa Stevens, the zoo's assistant curator, said Tuesday. Tian Tian's enclosure and indoor pen are just a few feet away from the area where Tai Shan has lived with Mei Xiang since she gave birth July 9. Zoo staffers have not permitted the cub and his father to be in the same enclosure. "Although we know very little about what pandas do socially or behaviorally in the wild, there have been no observation of cubs in the proximity of adult males at this age," said Stevens. As a result, there are no plans at the moment for an introduction. Stevens said both the cub and his father have shown signs of an awareness of each other's scents.
Associated Press