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Brokaw leaves hospital after round of tests

NEW YORK

NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw has been discharged from a Charlotte, N.C., hospital and pronounced “in great health” after feeling light-headed during a TV appearance Thursday morning.

“After medical evaluation and a round of tests, Tom was pronounced in great health and has been discharged,” said NBC News President Tom Capus in a statement released about 1 p.m. Capus expressed gratitude to the Carolinas Medical Center for Brokaw’s excellent care.

Hours earlier, the network had reported that Brokaw felt “light-headed” on the set of the news-talk program “Morning Joe,” which originated this week from Charlotte. “Out of an abundance of caution,” he was taken to the hospital for examination.

About 10 a.m., Brokaw offered his own diagnosis with this Twitter post: “All is well Early AM I mistakenly took a half-dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants...” Ambien is a brand name for a sleep-inducer.

‘Call Me Maybe’ is song of summer

NEW YORK

There’s no maybe about it: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” is the song of the summer.

Billboard says the 26-year-old Canadian’s infectious pop song about infatuation love topped its “Songs of Summer” chart. The list annually ranks the overall performance of hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

Landing at No. 2 was Maroon 5’s “Payphone,” featuring Wiz Khalifa. Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” featuring Kimbra, Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” and Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” round out the top five.

“Call Me Maybe” already has netted Jepsen a Teen Choice Award, and the video was up for the best new artist moonman trophy at Thursday night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

No investigaton over Prince Harry photos

LONDON

Britain’s press watchdog says it will not for now open an investigation into a tabloid’s publication of nude photos of Prince Harry because royal officials have not filed a formal complaint.

The Sun was Britain’s only national newspaper to carry the pictures of Harry frolicking in the nude with an unidentified woman in his Las Vegas hotel room after the images appeared online and drew international attention.

The Press Complaints Commission said it received around 3,800 complaints after The Sun published the pictures, but royal officials were not among those filing.

The commission said Thursday that it is talking with Harry’s representatives, but since they have not yet formally complained, it would be “inappropriate” to open an investigation at this point as any probe without consent would “pose an intrusion.”

Wire reports