• Chuck Hagel, the U.S. defense secretary, told members of the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy that he was counting on them to "lead in helping eliminate sexual harassment and sexual assault of your sisters and brothers in uniform."
• Yusuf Yerkel, the deputy chief of staff to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was dismissed from his post but will be assigned to another government job after he was photographed kicking a protester during a visit to Soma, where a mining disaster killed 301 workers earlier this month.
• Aazis Richardson, 16, was charged with murder in the shooting of Vincent Darbenzio, 47, after the Scranton, Pa.-area cabdriver kept taking a longer route when Richardson suggested shortcuts.
• Wang Zing, 40, of China and her five Sherpa guides reached the peak of Mount Everest, becoming the first team to scale the mountain from the Nepal side since a deadly April 18 avalanche.
• Manny Encarnacion, 49, a New York City police officer who was arrested in India when airport authorities found three bullets that he had accidentally packed in his luggage, is expected to leave the country by the end of this week after a court dropped all charges, his lawyer Samarjit Pattnaik said.
• Leila Hatami, an Iranian film star, has apologized for kissing the cheek of Gilles Jacob, the president of the Cannes Film Festival, after an activist group filed a complaint with Iran's judiciary and called for the actress to be flogged.
• Huan Ngyuen, a San Jose, Calif., police officer who has raised nearly $100,000 to benefit the widow and two young children of Phuoc Lam, a 37-year-old bus driver killed in a road-rage attack May 6, said, "I could see they were going to need help. It really, really got to me."
m Earl T. Cauthen, 92, who served three years in the Navy during World War II aboard the USS Hilary P. Jones, which provided perimeter security while the Japanese government surrendered, was surprised by family and friends with the World War II Victory Medal during a ceremony in his honor at the West Georgia Museum in Tallapoosa.
• Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, was inaugurated for a second term in a ceremony marked by dance, prayer and a 21-gun salute, and said "economic transformation will take center-stage" during the next five years.
A Section on 05/25/2014