Written By Unknown on Minggu, 05 April 2015 | 23.59
By Sky News US Team
An online fundraiser for an Indiana pizzeria that attracted nationwide opprobrium after its owners said they would never cater for a gay wedding has collected more than $840,000 (£563,000).
Nearly 30,000 people sent money for Memories Pizza in Indiana through a GoFundMe page that has now stopped taking donations.
The restaurant in the town of Walkerton found itself in the eye of the storm over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act after co-owner Crystal O'Connor spoke out on Tuesday.
Citing the new law and her Christian beliefs, she told a local TV reporter they would refuse requests to provide pizza for a hypothetical same-sex wedding reception.
Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act provoked a national outcry
Her father and co-owner Kevin O'Connor clarified later they would serve gay customers, just not same-sex nuptials.
Amid a nationwide backlash in which the parlour reportedly received threatening phone calls as well as graphic online reviews, they shut the business on Wednesday.
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An Indiana girls' golf coach is facing a criminal investigation after she allegedly tweeted a suggestion that the restaurant be burned down.
In an interview on Saturday with Fox News Business, Ms O'Connor said she's not ready yet to reopen the pizzeria, but she thanks God for the outpouring of support.
"God has blessed us for standing up for what we believe, and not denying him," she said.
The online fundraiser was launched by TheBlaze, a conservative news network founded by Glenn Beck.
Lawrence Jones, a TheBlaze reporter who set up the GoFundMe page, said the original aim was to pull in $25,000 (£16,750) for the O'Connors.
The final total was $842,592 (£564,739).
"Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family's plate as the strangers sought to destroy them," he said.
The legislation at the centre of the gay-rights debate has since been revised.
Facing national outcry from business leaders, Indiana's Republican governor this week ordered lawmakers to tweak the measure he had signed into law a week earlier.
The state of Arkansas followed suit by watering down a similar bill its legislature had just passed.
The original text of the legislation made no mention of gay or lesbian people, but prohibited state laws that "substantially burden" a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs.
Former New Zealand rugby union captain Mils Muliaina has been bailed after being arrested on suspicion of sexual assault.
The 34-year-old Connacht full back, who earned 100 caps for the All Blacks, is suspected of involvement in an incident in Cardiff last month.
He was forced out of Friday night's European Challenge Cup quarter-final tie against Gloucester after 34 minutes because of injury.
However, shortly after the final whistle, television pictures showed Muliaina being taken away by police.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said: "A man in his 30s was arrested at Kingsholm Stadium on Friday 3 April on suspicion of sexual assault in relation to an incident in Cardiff in March.
"The man has been handed over to officers from South Wales Police who are investigating the incident."
A South Wales Police spokesman said: "A 34-year-old man from the Galway area in the Irish Republic has been arrested on suspicion of committing a sexual assault.
"He has been released on police bail pending further investigation."
Details of the incident have not been confirmed.
Muliaina was in the Welsh capital playing for Connacht against Cardiff Blues on 6 March.
A 73-year-old Oklahoma reserve police officer "inadvertently" shot dead a suspect after confusing his gun for his Taser, say authorities.
Tulsa County deputy Robert Bates is on administrative leave after Thursday's killing.
It happened as police tried to apprehend Eric Courtney Harris, 44, in the car park of a Dollar General store.
The convicted felon was allegedly trying to sell a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and ammunition to an undercover police officer.
When members of the Tulsa Violent Crimes unit moved in to arrest Harris during the sting operation he fled on foot, say police.
The reserve officer, a member of the task force, was among the task force deputies.
Police say they caught Harris and forced him to the ground, but he continued to resist arrest.
The officers "observed him reaching for his waistband area ... causing concern for the deputies' safety", according to the authorities.
At this point, police said the reserve officer "was attempting to use less lethal force, believing he was utilising a Taser, when he inadvertently discharged his service weapon, firing one round which struck Harris".
He died later in hospital.
It is not clear if the suspect was carrying a gun at the time of the arrest.
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office said the reserve deputy would be interviewed on Monday as part of their investigation into the shooting.
The Moon was tinged with red for a short lunar eclipse which was seen by stargazers in parts of the Pacific Rim.
The eclipse - in which the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow - was seen in northern Japan, parts of Australia and areas of western North America.
The partial lunar eclipse seen in Utsunomiya, Japan
It began at 7.15pm in Japan and at around 8.54pm the moon was fully covered by the Earth's shadow.
Residents of Tokyo – keen to see the local cherry blossoms with the rare background – gave up on viewing the so-called "blood moon" due to thick cloud.
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Shots have been fired at a bus carrying Turkey's Fenerbahce football team, injuring at least one person.
Reports on Fenerbahce TV said the driver was injured after a shotgun was repeatedly fired at the coach.
The driver was hit in the face and taken to hospital, the club's vice president Mahmut Uslu said.
Mr Uslu, who was on the bus at the time, accused the attackers of trying to "crash the bus and kill the players".
Fenerbahce midfielder Mehmet Topal told reporters: "We cheated death. God protect us. I hope our driver will be all right. Words fail me. It's unbelievable."
Mehmet Topal described the attack as 'unbelievable'
The vehicle was hit as it drove to the airport following the team's 5-1 away win at the Black Sea side Caykur Rizespor in Turkey's Super Lig.
There was no mention of any injuries to anyone else but the driver.
Several pictures of the bus were posted on the club's website, revealing a shattered side window and damage to the front windscreen.
The pictures also showed blood on the driver's seat and the steering wheel.
The bus was going over a viaduct on its way from the city of Rize to the airport in Trabzon to return to Istanbul.
Trabzon governor Abdil Celil Oz confirmed the gun attack on the bus and said the driver's life was not in danger.
"At first we thought stones had been thrown at the bus but forensic investigators at the scene have concluded it was an armed attack," he said.
The governor said he had received a phone call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a supporter of the Istanbul club, asking him about the investigation.
The Turkish Football Federation released a statement condemning the attack.
The world's biggest atom smasher has restarted after its two-year shutdown.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) hope the upgrade will allow them to smash protons together with nearly double the energy previously reached.
Experts have nearly doubled the power of the Large Hadron Collider
Analysis of the "rubble" could lead to the discovery of new sub-atomic particles, revolutionising our understanding of physics.
Two beams of protons will be sent in opposite directions around LHC's 17-mile tunnel circuit on the Franco-Swiss border.
Video:Inside The Large Hadron Collider
Powerful magnets bend the beams so they collide at points around the track where four laboratories monitor the smash-ups.
The sensors examine the collisions for new particles and the forces that hold them together.
In 2012, the LHC discovered the Higgs Boson, an elementary particle that gives other particles mass.
During the next phase, experts hope to investigate "dark matter" - the invisible material said to make up much of the universe.
For the past two years, the giant machine has had its maximum collision capacity boosted from eight teraelectronvolts (TeV) to 14 TeV - seven TeV for each beam.
The initial tests will see engineers inject two beams into the tunnel at a lower energy of 450 gigaelectronvolts, but with no collisions.
If all goes well, "particle collisions at an energy of 13 TeV could start as early as June," the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.
Russia and the Red Cross have called for an urgent ceasefire in Yemen to allow in aid, replenish struggling hospitals and evacuate foreigners.
A Saudi-led coalition has been launching air strikes in the country to repel advances by Houthi forces who have taken over large areas of Yemen over the last six months, including the capital Sanaa.
But the Red Cross says a 24-hour ceasefire is needed to deliver aid and address "dire" conditions.
Hospitals are said to be low on medicine, with the streets of the southern port city of Aden reportedly littered by bodies.
Food and water supplies are also dwindling, according to the aid agency.
A jumper - said to be from a victim of Saudi strikes
A Russian draft resolution to the United Nations demanded "regular and obligatory humanitarian pauses in the air strikes by the coalition to allow all concerned states and international organisations to evacuate their citizens and personnel".
The UN has so far not agreed on the resolution but officials said they hoped to have something in place by Monday.
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Houthi rebels have gained ground in Aden after fierce street fighting against forces loyal to president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi - who has fled the country.
Witnesses said the Houthis had bombarded residential areas in Aden and set buildings on fire.
"Snipers, who took position on the roofs of provincial government buildings, targeted passers by and members of the popular committees," one pro-Hadi fighter told the AFP news agency.
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Saudi planes parachuted in weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, on Friday, but the Houthis still gained ground.
The 11-day campaign has also involved forces from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman
Adel al Jubeir, Saudi ambassador to the US, said sending ground troops remained "on the table" but would not comment on claims that special forces were already in Yemen.
Video:Warplanes Pound Yemeni Capital
The conflict has pitted Shia Iran, which backs the Houthis, against Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, its regional rival.
There are fears the fighting could escalate into a full-on sectarian civil war.
Kenya has begun three days of mourning for the 148 people killed in the university massacre as one of the four gunmen is identified.
Students who survived the attack by militant group al Shabaab have been reunited with their families.
One survivor, Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, told how she hid from gunmen by covering herself with clothes in a wardrobe.
She was found by security forces two days after the attack at Garissa University College, as medical staff carried out the grim task of dealing with victims' bodies.
Another 19-year-old student, Daniel Machache, smeared blood over his body and pretended he was dead to survive the slaughter.
Video:Survivors Describe Their Ordeal
Survivors were taken on government buses to the Nyayo National Stadium, which has been turned into a disaster centre.
Many relatives at the stadium desperately tried to trace their loved ones and find out if they were dead, injured or simply missing.
Thursday's attack, in the northeastern town of Garissa, close to the Somalia border, left 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers dead.
Four gunmen strapped with explosives stormed the campus and singled out non-Muslim students to be murdered.
The interior ministry identified one of the terrorists as Abdirahim Abdullahi, the son of a Kenyan government official.
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"The father had reported to security agents that his son had disappeared from home ... and was helping the police try to trace his son by the time the Garissa terror attack happened," a spokesman said.
The government has defended its response to the one-day siege as it emerged Kenyan special forces were not deployed to the university for at least seven hours.
"This is negligence on a scale that borders on the criminal," Kenya's popular Nation newspaper wrote in its editorial on Sunday.
It emphasised how survivors said "the gunmen, who killed scores of students with obvious relish, took their time".
Some journalists based in Nairobi drove 225 miles to Garissa and arrived before special forces, who flew there.
Video:Woman Hid In Wardrobe From Gunmen
Kenyans are dedicating Easter Sunday prayer services to the victims, marking the first of three days of national mourning.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said the militants would face justice for the "mindless slaughter" and vowed to retaliate in the "severest way".
On Saturday, Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab warned of a "long, gruesome war" unless Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia.
Hours after the warning, crowds gathered in Garissa as police paraded the gunmen's bodies in the back of a pick-up truck.
Officers said it was to see whether anyone could identify the terrorists, who were piled up face down in the vehicle.
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Some onlookers threw stones at the bodies as they passed.
In Nairobi's ethnic Somali district, demonstrators took to the streets protesting against al Shabaab and calling for unity in the country.
Five people have been arrested over the attack, including three "coordinators" captured as they fled towards Somalia.
The suspected mastermind, Mohamed Mohamud, a former teacher in Garissa, is still on the run.
