Новости за 05.09.2015

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - The University of Tennessee says references to the use of gender-neutral pronouns such as "ze" are being removed from a school website.

SANAA, Yemen - Saudi Arabia's military said Saturday that 10 of its troops were killed in a rebel missile strike a day earlier in Yemen, raising the death toll in the attack to at least 55 coalition troops killed.

INDIANAPOLIS - An electric car sharing program that's launched in Indianapolis faces lingering questions about its city subsidies and complaints about the charging stations tying up parking spaces.

The latest news as tens of thousands of migrants pour into countries across Europe. All times local (CET):

KINIGI, Rwanda - Youths wearing gorilla costumes and rubber boots grunted and scampered in front of Rwanda's president on Saturday during the ceremonial naming of 24 baby mountain gorillas in the African country, where the critically endangered animals live in volcano-studded forests that are visited by increasing numbers of foreign tourists.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state now has two dozen condemned killers with firm execution dates, but with four months before the first one, it still doesn't have the lethal drugs it needs to carry them out.

VENICE, Italy - The movie business: What's love got to do with it? For director Drake Doremus, everything.

COLUMBUS, Kentucky - A 17-mile stretch of Mississippi River in Kentucky has reopened with restrictions after it was closed following a collision between two tow boats that spilled more than 120,000 gallons of oil into the waterway, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday.

LISBON, Portugal - A Portuguese judge has released former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates from jail where he spent over nine months on suspicion of corruption, money-laundering and tax fraud.

SAN FRANCISCO - Pope Francis' apology for the Roman Catholic Church's crimes against indigenous peoples has not softened opposition among some California Native Americans to his decision to canonize 18th-century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra.

HARLAN, Kentucky - Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize.

LAS VEGAS - Last school year, Common Core-aligned standardized tests marched forward, going from paper-and-pencil to the computer to allow for questions to adapt in difficulty based on a student's answer. A new baseline of testing data was expected as a result. However, many states had technical issues with the electronic form that left them unable to complete the testing. Others saw an unprecedented spread of refusals. That means a new school year without complete testing data in many areas.

NEW YORK - In the summer of topless, painted women in Times Square, a team of New York Police Department officers fanned out on a recent night in their own getups - shorts, T-shirts and backpacks that allowed them to blend in with the crowd.

BANGKOK - Thai police said Saturday that they are looking for a 10th suspect in last month's bombing of a landmark in central Bangkok that killed 20 people.

NARAHA, Japan - Japan's government on Saturday lifted a 4 1/2-year-old evacuation order for the northeastern town of Naraha that had sent all of the town's 7,400 residents away following the disaster at the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant.

LANSING, Michigan - Emboldened after defeating establishment Republicans, newly elected tea party Reps. Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat set out to shake up Michigan's Capitol - quickly announcing a "contract for liberty" and attacking the GOP governor over proposed tax hikes and overspending.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - The pastor of a church where nine African-Americans were killed says he knows good works can come from the tragedy.

NORTH PLAINS, Oregon - Bertony Faustin didn't set out to be Oregon's first black winemaker. He just wanted to make good wine. But the disbelief that often comes when customers realize a black man owns the winery has worn on him.

MOSCOW - A giant sinkhole that appeared in the Russian city of Solikamsk nine months ago is growing in size.

MADRID - Spanish authorities who raided what is thought to be the country's largest outdoor marijuana planation didn't have far to look for the prime suspect. He was in jail.

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut - The noise and bustle of nearby neighborhoods fade away at New Haven's sprawling port. An oil and chemical tanker floats placidly at a dock. A tug pushes a barge out in Long Island Sound. Only occasionally do trucks rumble up to a scrap metal business or deliver materials for road work.

NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts - For three centuries, fishing has been a way of life in New Bedford - and it's still going strong.

PORTLAND, Maine - From the cab of his seafood truck, Louis Giannola watches pedestrians wandering with their noses in their phones as shoppers, diners and frustrated motorists crowd Commercial Street on busy summer days.

PARIS - France's far-right National Front is holding a party-wide meeting, hoping to move past a family feud that has pitted its head, Marine Le Pen, against her father.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Former intelligence worker Edward Snowden has received a prize from the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression, accepting via a live video link from Russia.