Milestones

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SET

A new record for fastest marathon, by Kenyan runner Dennis Kimetto, 30, in Berlin. He completed the race in 2 hr. 2 min. 57 sec.

RESIGNED

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, after serving almost six years. If the process of confirming a successor lasts through December, he will be the third longest serving Attorney General.

TOPPLED

By Ukrainian protesters in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a long-standing statue of Soviet icon Vladimir Lenin. They sawed through one of its legs before pulling the figure down with cables.

DIED

Gaby Aghion, 93, who founded the fashion line Chloé in 1952 as a more casual breath of fresh air in the ready-to-wear market of the time. Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney were among her notable designers.

ANNOUNCED

By eBay, that it will spin off PayPal, 12 years after acquiring it. The payment service will become a publicly traded company sometime in 2015.

MARRIED

Actor George Clooney, 53, to lawyer Amal Alamuddin, 36, in Venice. The 30-minute ceremony, with about 100 guests, took place in the historic hotel Aman Canal Grande Venice.

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