Pope Francis: The pope arrived in the United Arab Emirates for a three-day visit, becoming the first pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church to visit the Arabian Peninsula. Here’s why his trip matters.

Blackwater’s founder: A company owned by Erik Prince, who created the security contracting firm Blackwater, announced that it had struck a deal to build a training camp in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Asked about the deal, Mr. Prince said he had “no knowledge” of it, and the announcement was removed from the company’s website.

Deutsche Bank: In 2016, the German bank rejected a loan request from Donald Trump, which he had sought for work on his golf property in Scotland, judging that his divisive presidential campaign made him much too risky a client.

El Chapo: Two days before jurors were set to begin deliberations in the trial of the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, prosecutors unsealed secret documents in which an associate said Mr. Guzmán routinely raped girls as young as 13 years old, sometimes by drugging them.

Philippines: Five soldiers and three members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic State-affiliated militant group, were killed in a gunfight on the southern island of Jolo, six days after a church bombing linked to the same group.

South Korea: A court in Seoul sentenced a former presidential candidate, Ahn Hee-jung, to three and a half years in prison for sexual assault, making him among the best known public figures to be felled by the country’s growing #MeToo movement.

Britain: A woman in London was found guilty of the genital mutilation of her 3-year-old daughter. She is the first person to be convicted since the practice was banned in the country in 1985.