Unanswered questions about the Washington Navy Yard rampage
Many questions about Monday's shooting deaths of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard remain unanswered and with the main suspect among the dead, some of the specifics may never be nailed down.
After using a fingerprint to identify him, authorities have said the gunman was Aaron Alexis, 34, a former naval petty officer. Initially authorities said they were actively seeking a possible second suspect: a 50-year-old black man with a rifle, wearing an olive drab military uniform, but then late Monday they said they were no longer looking for that individual. A third man who was initially a person of interest was eventually cleared.
Other than that, local and U.S. investigators revealed little of what they've found out, but here's what they're likely to be focusing on:
Bangladeshi Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah sentenced to death
Critics say move has been made under intense political pressure
The highest court in Bangladesh has issued a death sentence for the leader of an Islamist party convicted of war crimes during the country's struggle for independence - a move that critics say has been made under intense political pressure.
The Supreme Court increased the punishment for Abdul Kader Mullah from a term of life imprisonment to one of execution, after he was found guilty earlier this year.
Mullah, 65, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, had been found guilty of crimes against humanity in February. At that time, when the court sentenced him to life imprisonment, there were massive protests in Dhaka and other cities from secular groups and ordinary people, demanding that he receive the death penalty.
Green Party leader regrets paedophile pamphlet
Investigation into party history reveals pro-paedophile sympathies
Derek Scally
German Green Party leader Jürgen Trittin has conceded he once signed off on a pamphlet demanding the decriminalisation of paedophilia.
The revelation dates from 1981 when Mr Trittin, then a student, was running for office in Göttingen as a member of the Alternative Green List, forerunner to the Greens.
A week before Germany’s federal election, the revelation is no dirty trick by Green Party opponents but from a political scientist commissioned by the party to examine its welcome to paedophiles in the early 1980s. Compounding the irony, it appeared yesterday in the left-wing Tageszeitung, a close ally of the Greens.
Iranians find websites are no longer blocked
September 17, 2013 - 3:27PM
Internet users in Iran were surprised on Monday to find that they could access Facebook and Twitter without having to evade the government's firewall, which had blocked direct access to the websites for years.
It was not immediately clear whether the government had made an official decision to stop blocking the sites, which it walled off from Iranian users in 2009, saying they were being used by anti-government protesters to organise demonstrations. To reach the sites, many Iranians began using virtual private network, or VPN, software to connect through computers outside the country, though the telecommunications ministry eventually deployed technology to block much of that kind of traffic as well.
The country's new president, Hasan Rouhani, has promised several times to reduce internet censorship, and several of his cabinet ministers, including the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, have set up Facebook pages and opened Twitter accounts, some of them quite active.
Past shackles Liberia's girl soldiers
CLAIR MACDOUGALL
What happened to all the girls who fought in Liberia's brutal civil war and are now grown-ups? How do they get on with their lives?
Mary Goll is asleep in a white plastic chair. Around her, in the modest bar by the sea that she owns, the sandy ground is flecked with cigarette butts and shiny cracker wrappers glinting in the dull morning light.
Plastic bags that once held white rice have been stitched up to cover parts of the shambolic structure, made from odd corrugated iron sheets and bits of chicken wire. Further up the beach, a cluster of canoes lie face down at the water as if asleep. Mary's bar – known as Ma Mary's – resembles a makeshift vessel that, carrying a motley crew and cargo, has crashed on to the shoreline and is slowly falling apart.
What was behind Venezuela's deadly oil refinery explosion?
One year after Venezuela's Amuay Refinery explosion the government points to foul play, while critics say state-run oil company is deteriorating.
Authorities say foul play was involved in the deadly gas explosion that tore through Venezuela's largest oil refinery last year. The blast claimed at least 40 lives, displaced hundreds of families and caused an estimated $1.7 billion in damages.
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