• Pope Benedict XVI, the former head of the Catholic Church, will celebrate his 90th birthday with a "modest party" after Easter in keeping with his strength, said his aide, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.
• Jordan Patch, the owner of Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y., where a pregnant giraffe became an online sensation when the park began livestreaming its pen in February, said the animal has given birth to a healthy male calf, as at least 1.2 million people watched.
• President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan, who has made healthy living a key element of his rule, has signed an order of programs to be adopted in the next five years to make the country tobacco-free by 2025.
• Jeffrey Lord, a CNN commentator, defended his comparison of President Donald Trump's health care negotiations to Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil-rights demonstrations, writing in an online column that both used "crisis to pass legislation."
• U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, 73, a Republican from Wisconsin, deflected concerns at a town-hall-style meeting over his vote to repeal federal rules that blocked Internet service providers from selling customers' browsing data, telling voters that "nobody's got to use the Internet."
• Yuliya Samoylova, a Russian singer who was refused entry into Ukraine for this year's Eurovision Song contest because she had toured Crimea after Russia's 2014 annexation of the region, will not compete in Kiev this year but will be Russia's entry in the 2018 contest, according to Russian media.
• Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, was arrested on multiple assault-related charges after, police say, DNA evidence taken during an autopsy from the hands of Vanessa Marcotte, 27, of New York City, who disappeared Aug. 7 during a jog in Princeton, Mass., helped them identify him as a suspect.
• Joseph Schmidt III, 42, a decorated Navy SEAL, faces investigation by the Navy for unpaid work he performed in sex films, some featuring his wife, porn star Jewels Jade, because commanders want to know if he had permission to do the work.
• Paul Koretz, a Los Angeles city councilman, reported that lawn signs near Beverly Hills, with phrases such as "Official Sanctuary City 'Cheap Nannies and Gardeners Make Malibu Great'" and bearing the city's seal, are fake and will be removed.
A Section on 04/16/2017