and new york mayor michael bloomberg. the man s wife reported something suspicious in the refrigerator and noticed computer searches for ricin. a 13-year-old from queens, new york, the champion of the scripps national spelling bee. 8th grader arvind mahankali clinched the victory last night on his fourth trip to the competition. those are some of the top stories on this friday, may 31st. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. all right. did you see any of the spelling bee last night? unfortunately didn t. you can t stop talking about it. turned on the last 15 minutes. my dumb luck. riveted. sweating it out for these kids. amazing. you are talking like it is the super bowl. s. e pi l again nolf