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An Indian court on Friday sentenced four men to death for the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi. Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty for the men, citing the "extreme brutality" of the attack, which took place on a moving bus in December. They have also argued that the court needs to send a message to Indian society with its judgment. The four men -- Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh– are planning to appeal the verdict.
In Other News • Russia and the United States will meet again later in September to discuss a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said from Switzerland Friday, where the two nations are holding a second day of talks on Syria's chemical weapons. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad demanded Thursday that the United States call off any potential strike on Syrian government forces before he gives up his large chemical weapons arsenal. But Kerry made it clear Thursday in comments on his first day of negotiations with Russia that the threat of a U.S. military strike remains on the table, if Syria does not hand over its stockpiles. • In New Jersey, Seaside Park's boardwalk caught fire. The flames raged for nine hours and ended up destroying four blocks of the boardwalk. • Americans commemorated this week the loss of those who died at the hands of al Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001. Their leader chimed in a day later with new threats against the United States. Ayman al-Zawahiri called on his followers in an audio message posted on the Internet on Thursday to "land a large strike on it, even if it takes years of patience for this.“ • A teenager convicted of malice murder in the shooting death of a 13-month-old boy in Brunswick, Georgia, earlier this year was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole, plus 105 years. • It was announced that new mapping technology puts Mount McKinley (Denali, as it is called in Alaska) at 20,237 feet rather than the 20,320 . It still remains North America's tallest mountain. • J. K. Rowling is going to make her screenwriting debut with a movie centered around one of Harry Potter's textbooks, "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them," and will center on its author, Newt Scamander. Rowling is very clear that this movie isn't a prequel or a sequel of that franchise. • The controversial gun measure won't become law in Missouri after a push to override the governor's veto fell one vote short of approval in the state's Senate.
