In the news

■ Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected head of the United Kingdom’s Labor Party, surviving a challenge to his year-old leadership by receiving 62 percent of the party vote to Welsh lawmaker Owen Smith’s 38 percent.

■ Sean Thompson, who was charged with assault and battery after hitting Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, Calif., with a pie in the face because he was angry that the mayor devoted so much energy to an NBA arena instead of other needs such as homelessness, posted bail and afterward had a pizza party for homeless people outside the jail.

■ Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, the vice president of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation and third-largest democracy, declared his country’s candidacy for membership in the U.N. Security Council, saying it would make the council stronger in the face of modern world challenges.

■ Paek Sol Mi collected the best actress award at the Pyongyang International Film Festival for starring in Story About My House, a North Korea-made drama that also won the festival’s highest honor, the Best Torch Award, for its depiction of a woman honored by leader Kim Jong Un for raising orphans.

■ Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict didn’t come up in his meetings last week with President Barack Obama in New York, giving him hope that Obama won’t push for a peace deal during his final months in office.

■ Lt. Darrin Devereux of the Brea, Calif., Police Department reported that the driver of a truck cruising along in the carpool lane on California 57 was issued a citation and a minimum $481 fine after an officer discovered that the driver’s passenger was a legless mannequin dressed in hooded sweatshirt.