Here are some of the key headlines from yesterday that you may have missed, in brief.

Umno Youth’s urging to defend Najib

Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar urged party members to stand with embattled party president and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in the wake of 1MDB-linked court filings by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), even if they are ridiculed as minions and lackeys for doing so.

Constitutional law expert Abdul Aziz Bari, however, believes that Najib should step down instead, arguing that this is part and parcel of the democratic process when citizens have doubts over the sitting government's legitimacy and fitness to remain in office.

While addressing the World Islamic Economic Forum in Jakarta, Najib urged Muslims to reject foreign intervention based on “incomplete, wrong or partisan” information, asking them to also shun those who, out of political motivation, urge outsiders to meddle in domestic affairs.

Slap on the wrist for Khairul

Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar dismissed a report filed by Umno Youth vice-chief Khairul Azwan Harun alleging a high-level conspiracy against Najib, saying that it was based on assumptions and therefore did not warrant further investigation. "We have already advised him not to do that again in future," he added.

PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli accused Khalid of practising double standards, contrasting the police chief’s seeming leniency towards Khairul with swift action taken against him for pursuing issues of public interest, such as the financial management of Tabung Haji and the Armed Forces Fund (LTAT).

Meanwhile, 14 officers from Bukit Aman and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) raided the house of a pregnant consultant yesterday following a police report against her Facebook postings of seemingly unflattering photos of Najib's wife Rosmah Mansor with the Pahang sultan.

Monkey business clarified

The monkeys which attacked and injured a postman at a military camp in Malacca two days ago only stole regular mail and not military secrets, the army clarified in a statement.

This was after English daily The Star reported that secret documents were seized in a heist staged by a band of macaques. The sinister simians were said to have waylaid the postman making his rounds at the Terendak Army Camp and grabbed three confidential documents before fleeing the scene.

More Kini bites

Political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, is selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Malaysian Official 1’ (MO1), ridiculing the inability of cabinet ministers and enforcement agencies to identify the unnamed official mentioned in the DOJ court filings on the alleged abuse of 1MDB funds.

Red Granite, the production house behind 'The Wolf of Wall Street', has cut a deal with the DOJ to avoid sanctions on its accounts and allow it to continue operations, agreeing to separate all future profits earned from the blockbuster hit pending the outcome of the US authorities' lawsuits to seize more than US$1 billion of 1MDB-linked assets.

Former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has filed an originating summons seeking to declare the National Security Council (NSC) Act 2016 unconstitutional, following the controversial law coming into force Monday. He is also seeking an injunction to prevent the NSC from exercising its powers pending the disposal of the court case.

Looking ahead

Economist Jomo K Sundaram is to hold a public lecture on 'What kind of Free Trade Agreement is the TPP?' at the Universiti Malaya Faculty of Economics and Administration.