Mustafa Akinci was elected leader of the Turkish Cypriots on the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus, pledging to focus on achieving a reunification accord with Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades.
Martha Stewart, who helped the White House with decorating matters during Bill Clinton’s administration, signaled support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, saying, “I like the lady that’s running.”
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has started a nonprofit group called the Mockingbird Company to produce a play about the book, according to Dramatic Publishing Co., ending a trademark dispute over the show, now in its 26th year, at Monroe County Heritage Museum in Alabama.
George W. Bush, the former president, told the Republican Jewish Coalition that he plans to stay off the 2016 campaign trail in an effort to avoid an anti-dynastic backlash as his younger brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, considers a presidential bid.
Lisa McElroy, a law professor at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, who says she inadvertently sent students a link to a porn site rather than an article about writing legal briefs, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that she is “mortified” but that there are worse things than humiliation.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, in a new documentary commemorating his 15 years in office, accuses the West of helping Chechen insurgents in the 2000s, citing intercepted phone calls between the separatists and U.S. intelligence officials in Azerbaijan.
Eligah Christian, 49, of Wasilla, Alaska, was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving and felony criminal mischief after police said he smashed his motorhome into several state patrol cars in an attempt to elude arrest on a separate $100,000 warrant.
President Francois Hollande of France, during a ceremony at the Natzweiler-Struthof camp marking 70 years since the Allied liberation of the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil, urged vigilance against resurgent anti-Semitism and racial discrimination in Europe.
Cody Knecht, a firefighter in Slidell, La., spent about 2½ hours retrieving six mallard ducklings trapped down a storm drain with the help of a duck call ringtone on his cellphone.