• The Islamic State issued, for the first time in nearly a year, what appears to be an audio recording of its self-proclaimed caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. [The New York Times]

• A French court sentenced the mother of a jihadist, who is thought to have died in Syria, to two years in jail over money she sent him. [Radio France International]

• A court in Russia ruled that a former top sports official who exposed a doping scheme at the Sochi Olympics will be arrested if he returns to the country. [The New York Times]

• Also in Russia, the latest exposé by Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader, took aim at a prominent Kremlin-friendly television journalist, Vladimir Solovyov. [Moscow Times]

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the six-time Emmy-winning actress, paired the news that she has breast cancer with a call for universal health care in the United States. [The New York Times]

• Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, is revising his ambitions for sending people to Mars in the next decade. [The New York Times]

• The police in Berlin ended the weeklong occupation of the Volksbühne theater by left-wing activists, who sought to turn it into a collectively run theater. [Berliner Morgenpost]