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Trump forced from his motorcade amid chaotic protests at California convention
NGOs demand end to Syria atrocities as Aleppo airstrikes continue
Kunduz hospital attack: MSF's questions remain as US military seeks no charges
Large Hadron Collider on paws after creature chews through wiring
Ireland set for minority government after two main parties reach deal
At least three dead and many trapped after building collapses in Kenya
Italian couple win same-sex adoption case
Obama administration warns of ‘climate refugees’ due to rapid Arctic warming
Ex-Auschwitz guard talks of shame during trial over mass killings
Dining out in Moscow: from culinary wasteland to foodie heaven
South Africa's high court rules Jacob Zuma should face corruption charges
Egyptian cleric defends CIA agent convicted over his rendition
Norway helicopter crash: Super Pumas grounded worldwide
Aleppo airstrikes continue amid renewed violence in Syrian city
Trump, Cruz aides advised Guatemalan candidate vowing televised executions
43 years in solitary: 'There are moments I wish I was back there'
Tony Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi prince's oil firm
Vladimir Bukovsky: 'I'm on hunger strike for the British public'
81-year-old Bangladeshi-British editor held on 'farcical' charges, son says
FBI bought $1m iPhone 5C hack, but doesn't know how it works
Refugee who set himself alight on Nauru dies in hospital
Investigators look into possible Prince overdose on prescription drugs
Sweatshop art: Berlin artists join production line in capitalist protest
Dozens of Syrians forced into sexual slavery in derelict Lebanese house
John Paul II: The Musical to debut in Poland next year
CV of failures: Princeton professor publishes resume of his career lows
China refuses US carrier permission for port call in Hong Kong harbour
Imposing racial quotas is a vital step forward for South African sport
Eight years for falling asleep in a parked car: welcome to Angola's penal system
Nine in 10 say they cannot name local police and crime commissioner
Louisiana prisoner freed after 41 years of controversial sentence
Rescuers search for dozens missing after giant Guatemala rubbish heap collapses
New Manus and Nauru operator signals plans to quit detention centre business
Blowhole murder: bail denied for uncle charged over death of student
Daytime cooking ban in India as heatwave claims 300 lives
Netherlands to hand out iodine pills in case of nuclear accident
Silvio Berlusconi faces sex and lies charges in seven cities across Italy
Aleppo mourns Syrian paediatrician killed in hospital airstrike
Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky on hunger strike 'for the British public' – video
Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East by Nicolas Pelham
Helicopter crash site attended by rescuers in Norway – video
Jordan lifts ban on controversial rock group
Man arrested in Switzerland over Cologne sex attacks
Eyewitness: Monrovia, Liberia
Wife of man who died after setting fire to himself in Nauru slams delay in care
India asks UK to deport Kingfisher Airlines tycoon Vijay Mallya
Duckling rescued from drain in Droitwich – video
Always practise safe text: the German traffic light for smartphone zombies
Five steps to put young people at the heart of development | Carla Kweifio-Okai
Untold stories seen through the Prism of youth: child journalists in Bangladesh | Saad Hammadi
White House correspondents’ dinner: Obama’s best zingers – video
Trump's ousting from motorcade 'felt like I was crossing the border' – video
Protesters force Trump out of car to get to California GOP convention – video
Florida police officer caught on tape hitting handcuffed woman – video
Anti-Trump protest turns violent in California - video

Trump forced from his motorcade amid chaotic protests at California convention

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 04:10 PM PDT

Hundreds stormed area where frontrunner went to address Republicans
With entrance blocked, Trump was forced to exit vehicle to access hotel

Protesters in California forced Donald Trump to leave his motorcade and walk along a highway on Friday, amid chaotic demonstrations in which activists torched an American flag and set fire to a piñata of the Republican frontrunner.

Hundreds of protesters repeatedly tried to storm the hotel where Trump was due to address the California Republican convention in Burlingame, near San Francisco International Airport.

NGOs demand end to Syria atrocities as Aleppo airstrikes continue

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 10:23 AM PDT

US talking to Russia about reducing fighting in Aleppo after agreeing 'regime of calm' deal in Latakia and Eastern Ghouta

Airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of Syria's largest city resumed after a brief lull on Friday as the US and Russia consulted to shore up a collapsing truce after a week of violence.

At least one child died and five people were injured in airstrikes on rebel areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, while dozens of Syrian and international NGOs appealed to Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to halt "atrocities happening on your watch".

Kunduz hospital attack: MSF's questions remain as US military seeks no charges

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 08:42 AM PDT

Médecins Sans Frontières' request for independent inquiry into 3 October airstrike that killed 42 civilians remains open after military fails to yield charges

Médecins Sans Frontières reiterated its request for Barack Obama to permit an independent inquiry into a US attack on its hospital in northern Afghanistan on Friday after a US military investigation failed to yield criminal charges.

Meinie Nicolai, the president of the group also known as MSF or Doctors Without Borders, told the Guardian: "We still have questions on negligence and the list of errors that we've heard" outlined in a declassified report into the 3 October airstrike that killed 42 civilians in MSF's Kunduz hospital, one of the most infamous episodes in the US's longest-ever war.

Large Hadron Collider on paws after creature chews through wiring

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 12:14 PM PDT

LHC to be out of action for a week while connections to transformer are replaced following visit from hungry fouine

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator has been brought to its knees by a beech marten, a member of the weasel family, that chewed through wiring connected to a 66,000-volt transformer.

The Large Hadron Collider on the outskirts of Geneva was designed to recreate in miniature fireballs similar to the conditions that prevailed at the birth of the universe, but operations of the machine, which occupies a 17-mile tunnel beneath Switzerland, have been placed on hold pending repairs to the unit.

Ireland set for minority government after two main parties reach deal

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 11:43 AM PDT

Fianna Fáil will stay in opposition but allow Fine Gael to govern until at least September 2018

Ireland finally has a new government after its inconclusive general election in February.

The Republic's two main parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, struck a deal on Friday that will lead to a new coalition.

At least three dead and many trapped after building collapses in Kenya

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 04:43 PM PDT

Three children and one adult taken to hospital as rescue workers try to free those trapped after six-storey building collapses in Nairobi

A six-storey building has collapsed in Kenya's capital, killing at least three people and trapping many others after days of heavy rains and floods.

Live footage on the privately owned KTN television showed rescuers bringing out two survivors through packed crowds of emergency crews and onlookers in the Huruma residential area in north-east Nairobi late on Friday night.

Italian couple win same-sex adoption case

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:41 PM PDT

President of the Rainbow Families association and her wife win landmark case

Two gay Italian women have won the right to adopt each other's children in a legal first for the country. All previous verdicts in Italy in favour of lesbian women being legally recognised as the parents of their partner's children are at the appeal stages.

In its judgment on Friday, Rome's juvenile court said Marilena Grassadonia, president of the Rainbow Families association, could adopt her wife's twin boys. In turn, her partner adopted Grassadonia's son. All three were conceived by artificial insemination.

Obama administration warns of ‘climate refugees’ due to rapid Arctic warming

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 11:43 AM PDT

US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has painted a stark picture of communities displaced by rising Arctic temperatures that are 'washing away' towns

The Obama administration has warned the US will need to deal with a wave of "climate refugees" as the Arctic continues to warm, joining with the Canadian government to express alarm over how climate change is affecting indigenous communities.

Sally Jewell, US secretary of the interior, painted a stark picture of communities relocating and lives disrupted in her first official visit to Canada. The Arctic, which is warming at twice the rate of the global average, has just recorded its lowest recorded peak ice extent after what's been called a "warm, crazy winter".

Ex-Auschwitz guard talks of shame during trial over mass killings

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 09:52 AM PDT

Former SS guard Reinhold Hanning, 94, breaks silence to 'apologise wholeheartedly' for role in Holocaust

A 94-year-old Auschwitz guard on trial in Germany has broken his silence to "apologise wholeheartedly" for playing a part in the mass killings at the concentration camp.

Speaking out for the first time after 12 days in court, the ex-SS guard Reinhold Hanning said: "I deeply regret having been part of a criminal organisation responsible for the deaths of so many innocent people and destruction of countless families."

Dining out in Moscow: from culinary wasteland to foodie heaven

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 08:44 AM PDT

A ban on imported ingredients from the EU has led restaurants to source local produce – sparking fresh interest in Russian food

Not so long ago, the idea of naming an upmarket Moscow restaurant after an unfashionable provincial Russian town would have been met with confusion.

These days things are different. Voronezh, which opened a few months ago in a restored central Moscow mansion, is often booked out a week in advance. Its success, and that of dozens of other restaurants, reflects trends which have, in a short space of time, transformed Moscow from culinary wasteland into foodie paradise.

South Africa's high court rules Jacob Zuma should face corruption charges

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:04 AM PDT

Judge says prosecutor's decision to drop 783 charges against president in 2009 was 'irrational and should be reviewed'

South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, has suffered another blow to his already tarnished reputation after a court ruled that he should face almost 800 corruption charges that were dropped in 2009.

The high court in Pretoria deemed the decision to drop the charges by the national prosecutor at the time, Mokotedi Mpshe, as "irrational".

Egyptian cleric defends CIA agent convicted over his rendition

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 04:06 AM PDT

Abu Omar says Sabrina De Sousa, who faces extradition to Italy, is a scapegoat and the real culprits are more senior officials

The radical Egyptian cleric who was kidnapped in Milan by the CIA in 2003 has come to the defence of a former CIA officer convicted for her alleged role in his extraordinary rendition.

Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, who is known as Abu Omar, told the Guardian in a telephone interview that he believed Sabrina De Sousa, who faces imminent extradition to Italy, was a scapegoat and ought to be pardoned by Italy's head of state, Sergio Mattarella. De Sousa, a 60-year-old dual American and Portuguese citizen, faces a four-year prison sentence and is due to be extradited from Portugal on 4 May.

Norway helicopter crash: Super Pumas grounded worldwide

Posted: 30 Apr 2016 12:23 AM PDT

Move comes after Friday's crash in the North Sea that killed 13 people

All commercial flights using the type of helicopter that crashed in Norway on Friday killing 13 people, including a Briton, have been grounded worldwide.

Eleven bodies have been found after the Airbus Super Puma aircraft crashed near the island of Turøy on Friday. Two people remain missing, but are feared dead.

Aleppo airstrikes continue amid renewed violence in Syrian city

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:41 AM PDT

At least one child dies and five people are injured in rebel-held areas as Russian state media reveal 'regime of silence' deal

Airstrikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of the Syrian city have resumed, after a brief dawn lull followed seven days of violence, a number of reports have said.

At least one child died and five people were injured in airstrikes on rebel-held areas on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Trump, Cruz aides advised Guatemalan candidate vowing televised executions

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT

Exclusive: Tim Clark and Ron Nehring, running California campaigns for Trump and Cruz respectively, advised rightwing tycoon Manuel Baldízon's campaign

The two men hired by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz to spearhead their presidential campaigns in California are, for the moment, rivals in what could be the most important primary race of 2016.

But four years ago, Tim Clark and Ron Nehring, who are running the California campaigns for Trump and Cruz respectively, worked as paid advisers to a campaign to elect a Guatemalan presidential candidate whose platform included a call for public executions.

43 years in solitary: 'There are moments I wish I was back there'

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 04:00 AM PDT

Albert Woodfox, who was America's longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner up until his release in February, describes what it feels like to be free

Before walking out of jail a free man in February, Albert Woodfox spent 43 years almost without pause in an isolation cell, becoming the longest standing solitary confinement prisoner in America. He had no view of the sky from inside his 6ft by 9ft concrete box, no human contact, and taking a walk meant pacing from one end of the cell to the other and back again.

Tony Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi prince's oil firm

Posted: 28 Apr 2016 02:00 PM PDT

Former PM helped PetroSaudi break into Chinese market
His firm was paid £41,000 a month plus 2% commission
Blair held role as Middle East peace envoy at the time

Tony Blair obtained a "blessing" from Chinese leaders for a company owned by a Saudi prince to do business in China as part of an arrangement that paid the former UK prime minister's firm £41,000 a month and a 2% commission on any multimillion-pound contracts he helped to secure.

A series of documents, seen by the Guardian, show how Blair courted some of the most influential Chinese political leaders in 2010 and then introduced them to the Saudi-owned company he worked with, PetroSaudi. The company was not allowed to divulge his role without permission, according to the contract.

Vladimir Bukovsky: 'I'm on hunger strike for the British public'

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:26 AM PDT

Russian dissident, who was a close friend of Litvinenko, is protesting at 'Kafkaesque' judicial system in UK

The Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has been on hunger strike at his home in Cambridge for more than a week in protest at what he calls the "Kafkaesque" British judicial system.

Bukovsky was charged last year with child pornography offences. He strenuously denies the allegations. In August he took the unusual step of suing the Crown Prosecution Service for libel: he is seeking £100,000 in damages and claims the CPS has "falsely and maliciously" hurt his reputation.

81-year-old Bangladeshi-British editor held on 'farcical' charges, son says

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 02:00 AM PDT

Son of Shafik Rehman, held in Bangladesh on suspicion of sedition, says his father 'wouldn't hurt a mosquito'

The son of an 81-year-old Bangladeshi journalist who was arrested and detained on 16 April on suspicion of sedition says his father "wouldn't kill a mosquito".

Police say there is evidence linking Shafik Rehman, a prominent figure in Bangladesh who holds dual British citizenship, to a conspiracy to murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

FBI bought $1m iPhone 5C hack, but doesn't know how it works

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:46 AM PDT

US law enforcement agency in possession of mechanism for unlocking iPhone 5Cs or older – but identity of hackers closely guarded secret

The FBI doesn't know how the hack used to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone 5C works, and yet it paid in the region of $1m for the mechanism, which can used again to unlock any other iPhone 5C running iOS 9, according to reports.

Several US government sources told Reuters that the amount paid for the hack, bought from professional hackers, was substantially less than previous reports indicating a value over $1.3m. The technique can also be used as many times as needed without further payments.

Refugee who set himself alight on Nauru dies in hospital

Posted: 28 Apr 2016 09:53 PM PDT

Omid, 23, dies in Brisbane after setting himself on fire outside refugee centre during a visit by UN officials

The wife of a 23-year-old Iranian who died after setting himself alight in protest outside a refugee compound on Nauru has criticised delays in getting him to hospital in Queensland.

Investigators look into possible Prince overdose on prescription drugs

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:33 AM PDT

The possibility of an overdose on painkillers such as Percocet is part of investigation, say law enforcement officials

Investigators are looking into whether Prince died from an overdose, and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before the singer was found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis.

Sweatshop art: Berlin artists join production line in capitalist protest

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 11:00 PM PDT

Three years after the Rana Plaza disaster, artists have signed up to paint under 'sweatshop conditions' for three days – but not all of Berlin is buying it

Berlin street artist Emess walks into the Schau Fenster project space in Kreuzberg with a box of water-soluble spray paint and stencils. Taking off his puffer jacket, he puts on a white T-shirt with a number two printed on its back before starting his shift at Sweat Shop.

Dozens of Syrians forced into sexual slavery in derelict Lebanese house

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 11:00 PM PDT

Victims were tortured and only left house for abortions and treatment for venereal diseases in case that has shocked country

Tucked in a leafy suburb of the Lebanese town of Jounieh, a short drive from the sparkling Mediterranean, stands a monument to human cruelty.

In this derelict two-story house, 75 Syrian women were forced into sexual slavery, the largest human trafficking network ever uncovered in Lebanon.

John Paul II: The Musical to debut in Poland next year

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 10:32 PM PDT

Show will combine pop, rock and the story of the life Karol Wojtyla, who grew up to lead the Catholic Church

Polish theatre producers have announced they are working on a pop and rock musical of the life of John Paul II, the former pope and the nation's beloved native son.

"We're trying to create something big," says the show's writer Michal Kaczmarczyk. "We will tell his whole life story, from his infancy until his death."

CV of failures: Princeton professor publishes resume of his career lows

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 08:51 PM PDT

Johannes Haushofer bravely posts document listing degree programs he did not get in to and academic positions he did not get

A professor at Princeton University has published a CV listing his career failures on Twitter, in an attempt to "balance the record" and encourage others to keep trying in the face of disappointment.

Johannes Haushofer, who is an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs at the university in New Jersey, posted his unusual CV on Twitter last week. The document contains sections titled Degree programs I did not get into, Research funding I did not get and Paper rejections from academic journals.

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China refuses US carrier permission for port call in Hong Kong harbour

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 06:52 PM PDT

USS Stennis and accompanying vessels turned away as China says port calls by US ships are decided on 'case by case' basis

China has denied the US aircraft carrier USS Stennis and accompanying naval vessels permission to make a port call in Hong Kong.

It was not immediately known what prompted the Chinese action, but it comes amid growing tension between the two countries over Beijing's moves to assert its claims to much of the South China Sea.

Imposing racial quotas is a vital step forward for South African sport

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:34 AM PDT

With black athletes still sidelined, minister's threat to sporting federations can help reverse apartheid legacy

South Africa's sports minister has announced that he will no longer "beg for racial transformation", but will start forcing the country's sporting federations to fulfil racial quotas.

Fikile Mbalula said in a speech on Sunday that the cricket, rugby, netball and athletics federations would be banned from bidding for any international tournaments until their numbers of black players improved.

Eight years for falling asleep in a parked car: welcome to Angola's penal system

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT

Prisoners detained for years on minor charges accuse the police of using violence to extract false confessions. Maka Angola reports

One Friday night in Angola's capital 24-year-old Domingos Manuel Filipe Catete had had a few too many drinks and passed out in a stranger's minivan. When the owner discovered him, he was taken to the local police station and arrested.

Catete had come to Luanda in search of work, but now aged 32 he is still being held in the city's central prison after eight years without trial under a "preventive detention" order.

Nine in 10 say they cannot name local police and crime commissioner

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 10:00 PM PDT

Of those who said they knew, 10% got it wrong, according to poll published before next week's PCC elections

Nine in 10 members of the public say they cannot name their local police and crime commissioner, according to research published before next week's elections.

Polling commissioned by the Electoral Reform Society found that 11% of people in England and 8% in Wales claim to know who is their PCC. Of those who said they knew, 10% got the name wrong.

Louisiana prisoner freed after 41 years of controversial sentence

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 09:04 PM PDT

Gary Tyler allowed home after a long struggle for justice, with eight years in solitary in the state's notorious Angola prison

A Louisiana man has walked free from the state's notorious Angola prison after serving 41 years of an unconstitutional life sentence over the killing of a white high school student during a violent segregation standoff.

Rescuers search for dozens missing after giant Guatemala rubbish heap collapses

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:24 PM PDT

At least four people died and 24 are missing after the huge pile of garbage in the capital caved in on itself

At least 24 people are still missing after a collapse at Guatemala City's largest garbage dump this week that killed four people.

People sifting through the dump, which receives about 500 truckloads of rubbish every day, were caught unawares on Wednesday when part of the massive heap caved in, according to authorities in Guatemala City.

New Manus and Nauru operator signals plans to quit detention centre business

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 07:54 PM PDT

Ferrovial Services, which owns more than 50% of ASX-listed Broadspectrum, formerly Transfield, says these services were not a core part of the valuation

The Spanish company taking control of the business operating the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres has signalled it plans to step away from the offshore processing facilities in the future.

Blowhole murder: bail denied for uncle charged over death of student

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 10:37 PM PDT

Mother of Michelle Leng flies into Sydney from China as family and friends mourn her death following the shocking news

A man accused of stabbing his wife's niece to death and dumping her body in a blowhole on the NSW Central Coast has faced court.

International student Mengmei Leng's naked body was discovered floating face down in foamy waters at Snapper Point last weekend, with stab wounds later revealing she'd allegedly suffered a violent attack.

Daytime cooking ban in India as heatwave claims 300 lives

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 06:57 PM PDT

Authorities try to prevent accidental fires amid scorching temperatures that have destroyed crops and killed livestock

With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.

Netherlands to hand out iodine pills in case of nuclear accident

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:45 PM PDT

Fear over safety of reactors across the border in Belgium prompts government to order 15m pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the body

The Dutch government has ordered 15m iodine pills to protect people living near nuclear plants in case of an accident, as concerns rise over ageing reactors across the border in Belgium.

The iodine pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid, would be given first to children under 18 and pregnant women living within a 100-kilometre (62-mile) radius of a plant, health ministry spokeswoman Edith Schippers said.

Silvio Berlusconi faces sex and lies charges in seven cities across Italy

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:29 PM PDT

Courts will try the disgraced former prime minister and young women he is accused of bribing to lie under oath

Courts in seven cities across Italy will join forces to try billionaire Silvio Berlusconi and the young women he is accused of bribing to lie under oath, a judge in Milan has ruled.

Aleppo mourns Syrian paediatrician killed in hospital airstrike

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 10:14 AM PDT

Mohammad Wassim Maaz was among several killed at al-Quds hospital in Sukari neighbourhood

Syrian doctor Mohammad Wassim Maaz saved the lives of countless children in war-torn Aleppo before he was killed by an airstrike on a hospital.

"Dr Maaz was considered the best paediatrician and was one of the last ones left in this hell," one of his colleagues told AFP.

Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky on hunger strike 'for the British public' – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 08:19 AM PDT

Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky says he is on hunger strike as a protest against the 'Kafkaesque' British judicial system. Bukovsky was charged last year with child pornography offences – which he strenuously denies – and in August he began legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service for libel

Vladimir Bukovsky: 'I'm on hunger strike for the British public'

Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East by Nicolas Pelham

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:42 AM PDT

Sectarianism is the hall-mark of the deadly collapse of the Arab nation-state, argues a thought-provoking new book. The Ottomans managed better.

It's hardly surprising, given the mayhem and misery across the Middle East, that people who know and care about the region are scratching their heads trying to explain, never mind solve, its overarching problems.

That's easier said than done, of course, but here's an intriguing if partial answer: consider the more tolerant ways of the Ottoman Empire, whose demise after the first world war gave way to today's Arab nation states, a Jewish Israel and the growth of intolerance and sectarianism that is fomenting strife between Muslims and destroying ancient Christian communities.

Helicopter crash site attended by rescuers in Norway – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 05:03 AM PDT

Rescue personnel move towards a helicopter crash site near the western Norwegian city of Bergen on Friday. The helicopter is believed to have been carrying between 13 and 17 people. Witnesses described seeing and hearing a powerful explosion, and people were seen in the sea, television station TV2 reported, adding that some people had been rescued

Jordan lifts ban on controversial rock group

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:22 AM PDT

Popular Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila sing about religious and sexual freedoms

Jordan has lifted a ban on a performance by a popular Lebanese rock band imposed amid claims the group's songs promoting religious and sexual freedom violated local customs and religious beliefs.

Mashrou' Leila, a five-piece from Beirut with a gay lead singer, were banned on Wednesday from playing a gig in Amman scheduled for Friday.

Man arrested in Switzerland over Cologne sex attacks

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:11 AM PDT

Moroccan, aged 19, is held in connection with New Year's Eve assaults after allegedly shoplifting from a supermarket

One of the main suspects of the New Year's Eve sex attacks in Cologne has been arrested in Switzerland.

A 19-year-old Moroccan, thought to be one of six main suspects behind the attacks, was arrested in the town of Kreuzlingen after allegedly shoplifting goods worth €24 (£18) from a supermarket in Konstanz in south-west Germany and then crossing the nearby border.

Eyewitness: Monrovia, Liberia

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:01 AM PDT

Photographs from the Eyewitness series

Wife of man who died after setting fire to himself in Nauru slams delay in care

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 02:56 AM PDT

The 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker died in hospital on Friday, but his wife says treatment on Nauru was sub-standard and blames Australian officials for delays in moving him to Brisbane

The wife of the 23-year-old Iranian refugee who died after setting himself alight in protest on Nauru has criticised delays in getting him off the island for medical care.

The death of the man, Omid, in a Brisbane hospital Friday afternoon, comes at the end of a tumultuous week which saw the potential collapse of Australia's offshore processing regime, after Papua New Guinea announced it would close the Manus Island facility under orders from its supreme court.

India asks UK to deport Kingfisher Airlines tycoon Vijay Mallya

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:34 AM PDT

Businessman known as 'King of Good Times' for playboy lifestyle faces extradition request after collapse of firm

The Indian government has asked the UK to deport the liquor tycoon and self-styled "King of Good Times" Vijay Mallya after the collapse of his heavily indebted company, Kingfisher Airlines.

Vikas Swarup, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, told reporters that the government had written to the British high commission in Delhi, asking for Mallya to be extradited so that he could be present to face investigation under India's anti-money-laundering law.

Duckling rescued from drain in Droitwich – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:29 AM PDT

A duckling stuck in a drain is rescued by firefighters in Droitwich, Worcestershire, on Wednesday. A passerby alerted Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service after spotting it. The fire crew released it into the nearby river where it was reunited with its family

Always practise safe text: the German traffic light for smartphone zombies

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:44 AM PDT

In Germany, they call them smombies – smartphone users who stagger about cities like zombies, oblivious to the risk. Now the city of Augsburg is fighting back

The word "smombie" is one of the most recent additions to the German language. Last November, the term – a mashup of "smartphone" and "zombie", referring to oblivious smartphone users staggering around cities like the undead – was voted Youth Word of the Year in Germany.

The disease is virulent. A recent study of 14,000 pedestrians in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Rome and Stockholm found that 17% of people used their smartphone while walking. The heaviest users were 25 to 35-year-olds: almost a quarter of them exhibited smombie-esque behaviour.

Five steps to put young people at the heart of development | Carla Kweifio-Okai

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:30 AM PDT

Responding to the needs of the world's 3.5 billion young people will be vital in achieving the global goals. How do we get them more involved in policy-making?

With more than half the global population aged under 30, issues affecting young people are receiving greater attention from policymakers. Tackling high youth unemployment and low school attendance rates, and providing greater access to sexual and reproductive health services, are now top priorities. Leaders are beginning to realise that responding to young people's needs is the only way to meet the biggest challenges facing the world.

But how involved are young people in the decisions that affect them? We asked campaigners involved with the youth-led NGO Restless Development what needs to be done to bring them closer to the heart of development.

Untold stories seen through the Prism of youth: child journalists in Bangladesh | Saad Hammadi

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT

In a country where the media is sometimes repressed, video news service Prism allows young citizen journalists to venture beyond the mainstream

Arju Mony Dristy is among more than 100 young people recruited as volunteers for a video news service, Prism, in a partnership between Unicef, the UN's children's agency, and the online news agency BDnews24.com.

Focusing on social issues, such as the lives of street children, Dristy, 17, hopes her work as a student video journalist will attract the attention of authorities and policymakers.

White House correspondents’ dinner: Obama’s best zingers – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 03:37 PM PDT

The Guardian looks back at the president's best lines, bits and burns from the past seven dinners in Washington before his final schtick on Saturday night

White House correspondents' dinner: will Obama deliver a Trump roast?

Trump's ousting from motorcade 'felt like I was crossing the border' – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 02:32 PM PDT

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says it 'felt like I was crossing the border' after protesters forced him from his motorcade in California. Trump's motorcade had to pull over on the side of the road next to the hotel where the candidate was set to speak to a group of Republicans at the state's GOP convention. Trump could be seen getting out of his SUV and walking along a jersey wall to enter the hotel through a back door

Protesters force Trump out of car to get to California GOP convention – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:30 PM PDT

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was forced from his motorcade after a large crowd of protesters gathered outside a California hotel where he was due to speak at the state GOP convention. Trump's motorcade had to pull over next to the hotel. Trump could be seen getting out of his SUV and walking along a jersey wall to enter the hotel through a back door

Florida police officer caught on tape hitting handcuffed woman – video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 09:57 AM PDT

A rookie sheriff's deputy in Jacksonville, Florida, has been charged with battery and fired from his job after authorities said he hit a woman in handcuffs. Video shows 26-year-old officer Akinyemi Borisade repeatedly striking the handcuffed woman. Police say the incident happened after Borisade arrested the woman at a local bar for trespassing and resisting arrest

Anti-Trump protest turns violent in California - video

Posted: 29 Apr 2016 01:30 AM PDT

Dozens of protesters bring traffic to a halt in Costa Mesa, California, just outside the venue where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech on Thursday evening. The anti-Trump demonstrators were waving Mexican flags in protest at Trump, who has vowed to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Others vandalised a police car

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