In the news
■ Peter Kaestner , a 71-year-old from Cockeysville, Md., was able to set a birdwatching milestone as his sighting of an orange-tufted spider-hunter in the Philippines allowed him to document his 10,000th sighting.
■ Junaid Munir, a 22-yearold Pakistani student, was sentenced to death after being found guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad via sharing blasphemous content on WhatsApp in 2022.
■ Margrethe II, the former queen of Denmark, said in a statement, “I’m looking forward to seeing the adventure unfold on stage,” as she has emerged as a ballet costume designer for the Tivoli Gardens amusement park, creating costumes and the set for an upcoming ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, “Clumsy Hans.”
■ Bertrand Lavigne, a former BNP Paribas SA banker, was told by judges he wasn’t able to keep the $4.9 million won in a Paris unfair-dismissal case after he had used similar arguments to get a payout of only $104,330 in a London tribunal.
■ Omoyele “Yele” Sowore, a Haworth, N.J., resident, tweeted, “I stand today to declare that I am unbowed,” as he was able to return home after having been jailed since August 2019 in Nigeria after he ran for president and organized a protest in the country.
■ Richard Dunn, a curator at the Freeport McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans, said “it’s frustrating … something as simple as it got shot is what kills us the most,” as a $5,000 reward has been offered to find out who killed an endangered whooping crane in southwest Louisiana in January.
■ Kahraman Yildiz, a 68-year-old from Istanbul, said, “I hope this art will never end,” as he set up the latest Mahya, a Turkish tradition of stringing religious messages and designs between minarets, for the start of Ramadan.
■ Chip Michalove, owner of Outcast Sport Fishing in Hilton Head, S.C., said “we definitely hit a home run with LeeBeth” as the namesake white shark he helped scientists tag traveled more than 2,000 miles south as of Monday, with a signal showing her off the coast near Matamoros, Mexico.
■ Mohammad Ali Alsaccal, a 39-year-old from Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., was arrested in connection with threats to stab and kill several Jews over a three-day period.