• Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Iceland's foreign affairs minister, said a January U.N. conference on women and gender equality will be restricted to men and boys and will have a special focus on violence against women.
• Charles Agosto, 35, was arrested after Lebanon, Ore., police said they followed the strong scent of his cologne to where he was hiding in some shrubs after abandoning a red Honda Prelude that lost its hood during a 100 mph chase.
• Peter Nunn, 33, of Bristol, England, was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison for sending menacing messages through Twitter to a lawmaker, Stella Creasy, who had supported a campaign to place author Jane Austen on a British banknote.
• Carrie Ferguson Weir, spokesman for the Tennessee Department of Children's Services, said a woman who dropped off her newborn baby at a Nashville fire station in August has come forward to reclaim the child.
• Julie Bishop, the foreign minister of Australia, said Australia ruled out sending doctors to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak because of logistical problems in repatriating any Australian who became infected with the deadly virus.
• Isaac Barron, a North Las Vegas, Nev., councilman and landlord, said he's heartbroken about the 45 dogs that were killed in a fire at a house he rents out and didn't know that a total of 93 dogs were being kept there by two of his tenants.
• Jan-Ulrich Weiss, a German lawmaker, is facing expulsion proceedings from his party, the Alternative for Germany, after being accused of posting an anti-Semitic cartoon on his Facebook page.
• The Rev. Joseph Maurizio Jr., 69, a Roman Catholic priest from Pennsylvania, was ordered to remain jailed until his trial on charges that he possessed child pornography and traveled to Honduras for sex with children during missionary trips.
• Wunna Maung Lwin, Burma's foreign minister, said in a U.N. speech that his country has addressed "all major concerns related to human rights" since it emerged from a half-century of dictatorship with a 2010 election and should be removed from the U.N. Human Rights Council's agenda.
• Melissa Giller, a spokesman for the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., said there was no threat to the public and three workers were cleared by authorities after one worker opened an envelope containing an unknown white powder.
A Section on 09/30/2014