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• ALFRED, Maine (AP) -- Prosecutors have shown jurors videos demonstrating that an insurance agent was familiar with paid sex acts involving his mistress, but a defense lawyer said it doesn't prove that the man promoted prostitution.
• The jury in the trial of Mark Strong Sr. watched a 45-minute video Thursday showing a sexual encounter between Zumba fitness instructor Alexis Wright and a man who left $250 cash on her massage table.
• Testimony indicated Strong watched the sexual encounters in Kennebunk through a live video call to his office 100 miles away in Thomaston.
• Defense lawyer Daniel Lilley contends Strong committed no crime because he neither recruited clients nor profited from the operation.
• "Observing a person in a criminal act is not a criminal act itself," Lilley told reporters Thursday outside the courthouse.
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• AP PHOTOS: A look at India's Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious festival
• ALLAHABAD, India (AP) -- Once every 12 years, tens of millions of Indians gather for one of Hinduism's holiest celebrations at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythic Saraswati rivers. The Maha Kumbh Mela, thought to be the largest religious gathering in the world, celebrates the victory of gods over demons in a battle for nectar that would grant them immortality. As one of the gods fled with a pitcher of the nectar, a drop spilled here, in the town of Allahabad.
• Participants at the Kumbh believe a bath in the river on one of the festival's auspicious bathing days can rid them of their sins. Associated Press photographers fanned out across the 55-day festival in the temporary city on the banks of the river.
• The river was often a mass of bodies -- men and their sons stripped down to their underwear, veiled women wading in the water, ash smeared ascetics wearing marigold garlands and nothing else.
• Here's a gallery of their images from the festival.
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