Alfiya Zuckerman, 39, Ruben Tamrazian, 26, and Vahe Muradkhanyan, 32, pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and were sentenced on Thursday to 180 days in jail, plus two years of supervised probation.
Sen Family Archive/Author’s Collection In 1940s Calcutta (now Kolkata), as Japanese air raids rattled the city, a group of musicians travelled by horse carriage to a recording studio, dodging sirens.
The building was exposed, its only defence hand-dug trenches. At each siren wail, the musicians were trained to dive for cover - sometimes mid-session.
David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images Japan has unveiled a new name for days that reach 40C (104F) or above, after the country experienced its hottest summer on record last year.
The term - kokushobi - has been translated as "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot" day by Japanese and international media.
The name emerged as the most popular in a national online survey, with "super extremely hot day" in second place.
Extreme weather events like heatwaves
Getty Images A Kanye West concert in Poland has been cancelled, the venue has announced, following government pressure and condemnation over a string of antisemitic, racist and pro-Nazi comments by the US rapper.
West, also known as Ye, was scheduled to appear at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów on 19 June, his first performance in Poland for 15 years, but the venue said on Friday it would now not take place "due to formal and legal reasons".
Marta Cienkowska, Poland's
BBC Suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates in relation to alleged serious organised crime offences.
Kinahan, aged in his 40s, was arrested in Dubai over a warrant issued by the Irish courts, Irish national broadcaster RTÉ has reported.
The US government imposed sanctions on him in April 2022 after he and other members of his family were identified as leaders of the Kinahan organised crime cartel.
Kinahan also had ties to the world of sport via his
Getty Images An 86-year-old French woman who was detained at an immigration enforcement centre in the US has returned to France, the country's foreign minister says.
Marie-Thérèse, who is from the city of Nantes, moved to the US last year after marrying her long-lost love, Billy - an American man who died in January.
Her son sounded the
Gallo via Getty Images The leader of one of South Africa's main opposition parties, Julius Malema, has been given a five-year prison term for unlawfully possessing a firearm and firing it in public, casting a huge question mark over his political career.
The 45 year-old leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is a fierce critic of what he sees as "Western imperialism" and advocates the nationalisation of white-owned land
EPA More than 120,000 people have joined Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon for an open-air Mass, the biggest crowd so far during his 11-day Africa tour.
Arriving in the economic city of Douala on Friday, the Pope reiterated his message of peace after visiting the country's Anglophone region hit by a decade-long rebellion on Thursday.