■ BRAZIL
Rio police protest low pay
Disgruntled police protesting pay and work conditions planted 586 symbolic black crosses on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, as the city prepared to kick off its famous Carnival. Some locals deposited flowers in support. The crosses represented the number of officers killed in the line of duty over the past four years. "It's a symbolic act to denounce the bad working conditions and low pay for police," said Colonel Dilson Ferreira de Anaide, head of the military police officers' association of Rio. He said their demands would not affect security at carnival festivities, which run through Tuesday.
■ UNITED STATES
Nun gets jail for abuse
A 79-year-old nun will spend a year in jail for sexually abusing two boys in the 1960s, Milwaukee County court officials said on Friday. Norma Giannani pleaded no contest to the charges of engaging in dozens of sexual encounters with the two boys some four decades ago. The boys were 12 and 13 and she was a school principal at the time, local media reported. At the sentencing hearing on Friday, one of the victims explained how Giannani's actions tortured him for much of his life and destroyed his faith, the Chicago Tribune said.
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