Milestones

CLEARED. DAN BROWN, 41, author of The Da Vinci Code , of copyright infringement; by London's High Court. Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had claimed that Brown had copied the "central theme" of their nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail . Both books propose that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child and that their bloodline lives on today.

RESIGNED. DAO DINH BINH, 61, Vietnamese Transport Minister, after failing to prevent corruption amid a scandal in which ministry officials stand accused of embezzling up to $7 million in government funds to bet on soccer matches; in...

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