• Hosni Mubarak, 86, Egypt's ousted president, broke his leg at a Cairo military hospital, where he is serving a three-year prison sentence in a corruption case, a security official said.
• George Zimmerman, 30, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted of second-degree murder in 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's February 2012 death in Sanford, Fla., suffered a setback in court when a Florida judge threw out part of a defamation lawsuit against NBC Universal, ruling that attorneys waited too long to ask NBC to retract statements it broadcast that they said made their client sound like a racist.
• Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, marked the second anniversary Thursday of his stay at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in a bid to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted on allegations of sexual misconduct, and to the United States, where an investigation into dissemination of classified U.S. documents remains live.
• Shah Bibi Tarakhail, 7, an Afghan girl fitted with a prosthetic arm who told her U.S. doctors that she loved painting, which led to her receiving a lesson and praise by a renowned expressionist painter, has returned to the U.S. after the group that sponsored her first visit to the U.S. said her celebrity made her a subject of death threats at home.
m Christopher Pagano, 42, a Norristown, Pa., man accused of driving up to unsuspecting women in Philadelphia and offering them money to put Swiss cheese on his genitals, pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and harassment and was sentenced to probation.
• Jennifer Vargas, 34, of San Antonio was sentenced to two years in prison for grabbing her 6-year-old son's genitals during a rage, tearing them and then trying to repair them with glue.
• Mauricio Isidro Rivera Hernandez of Guatemala faces narcotics-smuggling charges in New Jersey after officials at Newark Liberty International Airport confiscated a batch of cookies that had 118 pellets of cocaine baked into them, with a street value of more than $50,000.
• Willie McCall, 85, an Alabama veteran of the Korean War who suffers from debilitating, combat-related health problems but was denied Veterans Affairs benefits dating back to the late 1950s, finally saw his benefits request granted and received more than $100,000 in back pay.
A Section on 06/20/2014