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| Pope Francis met with gay couple in U.S. visit | |  By Patrick Rucker and Alistair Bell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pope Francis met with a gay couple at the Vatican Embassy in Washington during the pontiff's visit to the United States last week, one of the participants said on Friday. It was a quiet gesture of outreach to the gay community that emerged as the Vatican tried to smother controversy about a separate meeting the pope held with well-known American gay marriage opponent Kim Davis. The pontiff met on Sept. 23 with Yayo Grassi, a U.S-based Argentine caterer, and his male partner of 19 years, Iwan Bagus, and three other people for 15 minutes, Grassi told Reuters.
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| Oregon campus shooter had at least 13 weapons - authorities | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon college had at least 13 weapons, six of which were found at the university and seven at the shooter's residence, authorities said at a news conference on Friday. Agent Celinez Nunez of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said all weapons in the shooter's possession were legally purchased. Weapons recovered at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg included five pistols and a rifle. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Bill Trott)
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| Salman calls for 'firm hand' at FIFA but no mention of Platini | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - The powerful head of Asian soccer said on Friday the sport's world governing body, shaken by a graft scandal, needed a "firm hand" to steady it, but notably made no reference to European chief Michel Platini whom he had previously favoured as the next president. Two sources have told Reuters Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa might himself stand for the FIFA presidency if a Swiss inquiry into a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.05 million) payment to him by outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter hampered his candidacy. Bahraini Sheikh Salman, president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), while not explicitly ruling out a bid for the presidency of FIFA, said in a statement: "I have noted recent media speculation that my name has been suggested by others but, while I would like to thank them for their trust and confidence in my leadership, the thought of being a candidate in 2016 had not crossed my mind." FIFA will elect a successor in February to veteran Blatter, who was placed under investigation last Friday by Swiss authorities.
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| "Sense of regret" in Vatican over pope meeting with gay marriage opponent | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis' meeting last week with an American woman at the centre of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday. One Vatican official said there was "a sense of regret" that the pope had ever seen Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in September for refusing to honour a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and issue same-sex marriage licences.
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| VW rivals risk bigger blow as emissions scandal hits diesel | |  By Gilles Guillaume, Barbara Lewis and Laurence Frost PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Volkswagen's cheating on emissions tests has soured the European car industry's heavy bet on diesel, with Renault, Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler potentially facing bigger long-term setbacks than the company that sparked the crisis. VW's use of a banned "defeat device" has drawn scrutiny of more widely practised test manipulation which, although legal, has allowed real-world nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to surge to more than seven times their European limits. A renewed push to close EU test loopholes promises to add billions of euros to diesel engine costs already at the limit of mass-market viability, hitting small-car brands hardest while shifting demand to hybrids, where the Europeans are several years behind Japanese competitors.
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| Sheriff withholds Oregon gunman's name, refuses to immortalize him | | | By Eric M. Johnson and Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The Oregon sheriff investigating the mass shooting that killed nine people at a U.S. college campus took the unusual step of refusing to publicly identify the suspect, insisting on Friday he would do nothing to glorify the gunman or his cause. A day after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, local and federal investigators struggled to determine a motive. The gunman, described as shy and socially awkward by neighbors, also wounded seven people in the rampage and died in an exchange of gunfire with police. |
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