26 September 2014 Last updated at 02:31
Xinjiang unrest: China raises death toll to 50
Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a "serious terrorist attack".
Earlier this week state media reported the incident in Luntai county but gave the death toll as two.
On Thursday a state news portal said 40 "rioters", six civilians and four police officers were killed. No reason was given for the delay in reporting.
Violence has been escalating in Xinjiang in recent months.
The region in China's far west is home to the Muslim Uighur minority group. Tensions exist between the Uighur community and the Han Chinese.
'Extremist'
The regional government's news portal, Tianshan, said that blasts occurred around 17:00 on Sunday at two police stations, an outdoor market and a shop entrance.
Thousands jailed in Uzbekistan on politically motivated charges, report says
Human rights activists, journalists, religious clerics and other perceived regime critics are kept under abysmal conditions, according to Human Rights Watch
Uzbekistan has locked up thousands of people on politically motivated charges, with prisoners typically kept in abysmal conditions and subject to torture and ill treatment, Human Rights Watch said on Friday in a landmark new report on one of the world’s most repressive and secretive regimes.
The government of president Islam Karimov has jailed human rights activists, journalists, religious clerics and numerous other perceived critics, the report says. It profiles 34 victims, some of whom were kidnapped from abroad and locked up following sham trials.
Others wrongly behind bars include cultural figures, artists and entrepreneurs. Most were branded “enemies of the state” and jailed for nebulous offences such as “anti-constitutional activity” or “religious extremism”. The prisoners’ sentences are often extended arbitrarily for years, the report says.
Kremlin tightens screws on tycoon who refused to play ball
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, chairman of vast Sistema group, being kept under house arrest
Isabel Gorst
A court in Moscow has rejected a bail application by Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the chairman of Russia’s vast Sistema investment group, and ordered the billionaire businessman to remain under house arrest.
Russian law enforcers confined Yevtushenkov to his luxury estate outside Moscow last week on suspicion of orchestrating a money laundering scheme when his Sistema group acquired the Bashneft oil company in 2009.
The case recalls the arrest of Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the confiscation of his oil company a decade ago. It has spooked the Moscow stock market and sown fears in the local business community that the Kremlin is embarking on another wave of oligarch bashing.
Australia to sign refugee resettlement deal with Cambodia
As part of a controversial deal Australia will start sending refugees to Cambodia by the end of the year. Rights groups have voiced great concern for the well-being of asylum seekers and have condemned Canberra.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, who is set to sign a deal in Phnom Penh later on Friday, said the agreement would help the government to keep its vow that no boatpeople would be resettled in Australia.
"This is about a regional solution. This is about providing genuine resettlement in a third country which is Cambodia, a signatory to the Refugee Convention," Morrison told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"It enables us to fulfill on the policy which says no one will be resettled in Australia."
In return, Cambodia would receive $35 million (27.5 million euros) over the course of four years and would carry the cost of resettlement, Morrison said, adding that refugees would only be relocated on a volunteer basis.
Central American leaders: investment will curb migration north
A Central American plan presented to the US and Mexico on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly aims to boost their economies and cut down on illegal immigration to the US through new airports in Nicaragua and Belize and regional energy expansion.
TEGUCIGALPA — A plan by Central American governments to boost economic growth in the region and cut illegal immigration to the United States foresees major spending on infrastructure and energy projects, a draft of the proposal showed on Wednesday.
The "Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle" aims to renovate highways, city bypasses and border crossings in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, as well as carry out improvements to other infrastructure in the region.
The plan aims to provide people in the impoverished region with jobs and an incentive not to emigrate north. Including projects that have already been announced, the planned works are worth well over $1 billion dollars.
'Traffic Light' On Mars Spotted In NASA Curiosity Rover Photo
Conspiracy theorists have gotten the green light to chatter about another strange object on the Red Planet. This time it's not a Mars rat or a jelly doughnut that's been spotted in a photo taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, but a "traffic signal."
The extraterrestrial "signal" was spotted by a British UFO enthusiast named Joseph White. Curiosity snapped the photo at 1:08 a.m. EDT on sol 753 (Sept. 19). You can see the original here.
"I have been following the images from NASA since the start and I flick through them on the NASA website every day," White said, according to the Western Daily Press. "I saw this one and I thought 'Hang on, that looks a bit strange.'"
While White said he believes what he spotted is "clearly intelligently designed," as he wrote on his latest video on the Youtube Channel ArtAlienTV-Mars Zoo, the formation is most likely just a rock.
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