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| Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness |
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 By Harriet McLeod, Alana Wise and Luciana Lopez CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Relatives of some of the nine black people gunned down while they studied the Bible at a historic South Carolina church offered tearful words of forgiveness on Friday to the 21-year-old white man charged with murdering their loved ones. Dylann Roof, who sat for an hour with parishioners at the nearly 200-year-old Emanuel African Methodist Church before opening fire, stood quietly as he appeared in court via a video feed. Dressed in a black-and-white prison uniform and flanked by two guards in body armour, Roof had no reaction as a judge ordered him held without bail.
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| Not the time to pull peacekeepers from Darfur - U.S. envoy |
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| By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Now is not the time to withdraw international peacekeepers from Sudan's Darfur region, where violence is increasing and tens of thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Friday. Khartoum has called for the joint United Nations-African Union force in the remote region of western Sudan to withdraw. The mission, known as UNAMID, has been targeted by armed groups while Western governments have accused it of not doing enough to protect civilians. |
| Thousands lose power when naked woman crashes into Seattle-area utility pole |
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| More than 4,000 people in a Seattle suburb lost power on Friday after a woman driving naked crashed her car into a utility pole, police said. There were live power wires down on the car when a police sergeant came across the crash scene in Shoreline, just north of Seattle, around 1:30 a.m., said Detective Jason Houck, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Department. Firefighters and utility crews disabled the wires and found a 24-year-old woman inside the car who was in and out of consciousness, he said. |
| Ton of confiscated ivory crushed in New York's Times Square |
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 By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a ton of ivory confiscated from New York and Philadelphia was crushed in Times Square on Friday to show intolerance for elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade, federal wildlife authorities said. The carved ivory, some of it still in the form of an elephant's tusk, was on display on a table in Times Square. "This is an illegal product and we feel that burning it or destroying it gets it out of commercial use and, therefore, there's less of a chance for it to find its way into the marketplace," said Wildlife Conservation Society spokesman John Calvelli.
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