Adly Mansour, Egypt’s interim president, urged citizens to vote in the presidential election that starts today and continues Tuesday, saying in a televised address that state institutions “have not and will not direct any citizen to a specific choice,” adding, “We are all concerned with security and a wide popular participation.”
Dalia Grybauskaite was re-elected as the president of Lithuania, becoming the first person to win a second term to the office after she beat her Social Democrat opponent, Zigmantas Balcytis, in a runoff, preliminary results showed.
Emma Watson, the 24-year-old British actress best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Brown University, where she began studying in 2009.
Nelson Hercules, a 30-year-old Virginia Beach, Va., man, was charged with attempted rape of a child and indecent assault, among other felonies, after authorities said he took a 12-year-old Pennsylvania girl whom he met online to a hotel for a sexual encounter.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah, warned that hardline foreign fighters in Syria pose a global threat as they trickle home and accused European countries of helping them join the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Jessie White, a 99-yearold Maine native, graduated from college 75 years after a $5 fee kept her from getting her degree in stenography and bookkeeping, with Alan Stehle, the president of Beal College in Bangor, presenting her with the diploma in a special ceremony.
Lorenzo Rodriguez, mayor of the tiny Spanish village Castrillo Matajudios — which means “Camp Kill Jews” — said voters have decided 29-19 to change the name the village has had since 1627, noting that many residents have ancient Jewish roots.
Ashley Goodwin of Memphis has been jailed in lieu of a $20,000 bond after police said she got into an argument with her boyfriend of six months, took out a scalpel and slashed the left side of his face before leaving with his keys and cellphone.
Erin Brown, a curator for the Oklahoma Historical Society, said a 1924 Steinway Grand piano that once belonged to Wild West performer Pawnee Bill has been restored after going years without necessary repairs and is now on display at the showman’s Oklahoma ranch.