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Nicos Anastasiades, the Greek Cypriot president, and Mustafa Akinci, his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, took a stroll and sat down for coffee in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, the first time the top leaders from both sides have met since the Mediterranean island nation was split after a 1974 coup.
Mans Zelmerlow, representing Sweden with the pop song “Heroes,” won the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, a 40-country musical competition that, for its 60th anniversary, invited Australia to perform for the first time.
Buruji Kashamu, a senator-elect in Nigeria wanted by the United States in a nearly 20-year-old heroin distribution case, has been arrested and placed under house arrest in Lagos pending a court hearing on extradition to the U.S.
Jeff Mizanskey, 62, who has spent more than two decades in prison on a life-without-parole sentence for marijuana-related crimes under a now-defunct Missouri law, was pardoned by Gov. Jay Nixon and is immediately eligible for parole.
Alexis Tsipras, prime minister of Greece, told his ruling Syriza party at the start of its two-day convention that the heavily indebted country is ready to accept a “long-lasting” deal with its European and international creditors but will not do so on “humiliating terms.”
Jose Ocano, director at an Arizona animal shelter that used Facebook to share the story of Sunny, a mixedbreed dog found hanging by a rope from a tree in Tucson, said the shelter has received more than $20,000 in donations to help cover medical bills for the dog, who has begun to recover with the help of a foster caretaker.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, 70, a French-born Green Party politician from Germany who for a decade was banned from returning to France after participating in a May 1968 student uprising, was officially granted French citizenship.
Annegret Raunigk, 65, of Berlin, who already has 13 children ages 9 to 44 and had decided to become pregnant again to give her youngest an even younger sibling, has given birth to quadruplets, a girl and three boys, according to RTL television.
Jeralean Talley of Detroit, whom the Gerontology Research Group considers the oldest living person, celebrated her 116th birthday but offered no secret for long life, revealing only that there’s “nothing I can do about it.”