■ Luong Cuong, a 67-yearold Vietnamese military general, was elected as the new Vietnamese president by the National Assembly, making him the fourth official to fill the mostly ceremonial role in the past 18 months.

■ Benjamin Glaze, a 26-year-old Tulsa man who went viral after he kissed judge Katy Perry during his audition on "American Idol," was arrested on child pornography charges after police found more than 700 images of child sexual abuse material on his cellphone, according to a statement by the Tulsa Police Department.

■ Dave Jakins, the 82-year-old men's winner at the World Conker Championships, was cleared of cheating after claims that he may have used a steel chestnut were disproven when investigators said "it would be near impossible for Mr. Jakins to have swapped the conkers unnoticed."

■ Julian Gonzalez, a 49-year-old convicted drug dealer who served nine years for a drug charge in the 2000s, faces up to 20 years in prison after a Brooklyn federal jury found him guilty of attempted obstruction of justice after he smashed his cellphone at Kennedy Airport after FBI agents who seized it with a warrant handed it back to let him call his wife.

■ Ilir Meta, the 55-year-old former president of Albania, was arrested in the capital on corruption charges after returning from neighboring Kosovo, according to officials with the left-wing Freedom Party.

■ Bobby DiCello, an Ohio attorney for the family of Jayland Walker, said "the family accomplished meaningful policy changes with its litigation efforts" after they and the city of Akron, Ohio, settled a federal lawsuit filed in the wake of Walker being shot 46 times during a traffic stop that escalated on June 27, 2022.