• Pope Francis removed Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, a key protege of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, from the Vatican's liturgy office, which under Benedict had taken on a more traditional bent, and sent him back to his native Spain.
• Mauricio Ruiz, 24, a sailor with Chile's navy, announced that he is gay and told reporters he hoped the public disclosure will help dispel myths that gays can't be effective members of Chile's armed forces.
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's former prime minister, was sworn in as the country's first directly elected president, a position from which he is expected to continue to exercise power for at least another five years.
• William Kennedy Smith, 53, a physician and member of the Kennedy family who was acquitted in December 1991 of sexual battery in a trial that garnered national attention, is seeking a seat on a Washington, D.C., advisory neighborhood commission.
• Leonard Embody saw a judge in Nashville, Tenn., dismiss charges filed against him over an incident last year in which the gun-rights advocate walked around downtown wearing a bullet-resistant vest and carrying an assault rifle with a silencer while handing out leaflets on the Second Amendment.
• Lilia Ratmanski, 25, and Milana Muzikante, 26, were charged with smoking on board an aircraft and endangering its safety, accused of drinking alcohol in the restroom of a Cuba-bound flight and fighting each other, forcing the aircraft to return to Toronto under a military escort.
• Edmund Alexandre, a resident of Paris, was arraigned in Boston on a charge of interfering with a flight crew, accused of causing an outburst over a reclined seat that led a Miami-to-Paris flight to divert to Boston.
• Ailina Tsarnaeva, the sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was arrested in New York City on suspicion that she threatened to bomb a woman who previously had a romantic relationship with her boyfriend.
• Benjamin Spaulding, a school bus driver in Lebanon, Ohio, resigned after being accused of making elementary-age students sit with the windows up in hot weather as punishment for being unruly.
A Section on 08/29/2014