Новости за 13.04.2016

CHANGSHA, China - For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and that in San Francisco, a distant mecca, gay pride parades took up entire streets.

MCKEES ROCKS, Pennsylvania - Classes have been canceled at a Pennsylvania high school a day after a student was shot near the school just after dismissal.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida - It's only fitting that solar panels that will help with the power needs of Walt Disney World are shaped like the famous ears of the mouse that started the Disney enterprise.

BRUSSELS - The European Union legislature wants tougher limits on the use of the popular weedkiller glyphosate because of increasing concerns about its possible links to cancer.

WARSAW, Poland - The European Parliament has condemned Polish government policies, saying they paralyze a top court and threaten Poland's democracy and the rule of law.

HONOLULU - The parents of one of 12 Marines killed after two helicopters crashed during training exercises in Hawaii say the aircraft he was in shouldn't have been flying. They also dismissed the search efforts for the Marines as "an embarrassment."

NEW YORK - A judge is holding a hearing on whether to throw out the manslaughter verdict for a former New York Police Department officer who shot an unarmed man in a darkened public housing project stairwell.

NEW YORK - What a joy it is to be revisited by Ellie Kemper's smile!

PARIS - France's prime minister says he'd favor a ban on Muslim headscarves in universities, prompting criticism from within his own government.

JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe presided over the burial of two women at a shrine for heroes of the country's 1970s war of independence - the first time a double burial has taken place at the monument.

THESSALONIKI, Greece - The Latest on Europe's response to mass migration (all times local):

JPMorgan Chase said its first-quarter profit fell more than 8 percent from a year earlier, and future profit growth could be threatened after it failed a key regulatory test designed to prevent another financial crisis.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's wildlife agency says it will relocate a lion that twice escaped from a national park, a reprieve from earlier considerations to kill him - plus he gets two girlfriends at his new home.

NEW YORK - The New York Empire will face the five-time defending champion Washington Kastles for their World Team Tennis debut at the historic West Side Tennis Club.

LONDON - Have you heard the one about the British politician and the dominatrix? Probably not until now - and critics of the government and the press say that is a problem.

CARNAGO, Italy - With only six matches remaining in Serie A, AC Milan coach Cristian Brocchi doesn't have much time to make an impact.

NEW YORK - It's impressive how Wendell Pierce confronts the challenge of his latest role, that of Clarence Thomas: with a hearty dose of empathy.

NEW YORK - Will loyal fans of e-books be willing to pay tablet prices for dedicated e-readers? Amazon is about to find out.

BAMAKO, Mali - Malian health authorities say they are searching for two women who left Guinea after having had contact with a recent Ebola case.

LONDON - In a dramatic change that could lead to numerous doping cases being thrown out, athletes who tested positive for meldonium may be able to avoid sanctions because of a lack of scientific evidence on how long the recently banned drug stays in the system.

NEW YORK - Peabody Energy, the nation's largest coal miner, has filed for bankruptcy protection as a crosscurrent of environmental, technological and economic changes wreak havoc across the industry.

IDOMENI, Greece - More than 100 migrants engaged in running battles Wednesday with Macedonian police on the other side of a fence on Greece's border with the country, in clashes that sent clouds of tear gas wafting over a crowded tent city of stranded refugees and other migrants.

NEWARK, New Jersey - NJIT is hiring assistant Brian Kennedy as its head men's basketball coach.

MIAMI - The Miami Herald has settled a libel lawsuit brought against the newspaper by former U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A man who stabbed to death a former Dutch health minister and his own sister has been convicted of manslaughter in both slayings by judges who said he was suffering from paranoid psychosis at the time and living in a "parallel world" when he killed the women.