8 September 2014 Last updated at 08:15
Iraq 'clears' IS from key dam area after US strikes
Iraqi government forces say they have cleared Islamic State (IS) militants from a wide area around the strategic Haditha dam, helped by US air strikes.
The jihadists have repeatedly tried to capture the dam on the River Euphrates, in the western province of Anbar.
The US air strikes were the first to have taken place outside northern Iraq.
Meanwhile, Iraq's parliament is scheduled to convene later on Monday to vote on Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi's proposed government.
The make-up of the cabinet has not been revealed, but Mr Abadi is expected to include representatives of all religious and ethnic factions.
Isis: British women running sharia police unit for Islamic State in Syria
Killings by China anti-terror cops raise concerns
By GILLIAN WONG
1 hour ago
BEIJING — When attackers
from China's minority Uighurs killed 37 people in a July rampage in far
western Xinjiang, police responded by gunning down at least 59 of them.
When three Uighurs allegedly killed a top state-appointed Muslim cleric,
police shot dead two of them. When security forces led a raid on 10
suspected Uighur terrorists, they fatally shot all but one.
The incidents
are part of a pattern raising concerns that Chinese police are
excessively using deadly force in their bid to prevent more attacks by
Uighur militants, who have killed dozens of civilians in train stations
and other public places over the past few years. In some cities,
patrolling SWAT units have already been authorized to shoot dead
suspected terrorists without warning.
Alexander-era sculptures unearthed in Greece
Two sculpted female figures discovered by archaeologists in vast ancient tomb
Archaeologists have unearthed two sculpted female figures, known as Caryatids, as they slowly make their way into an ancient tomb recently discovered in Greece’s northeast, the country’s culture ministry has confirmed.
They mark a significant new finding in the tomb on the Amphipolis site, about 100 km (65 miles) from Greece’s second-biggest city Thessaloniki, which archaeologists have hailed as a major discovery from the era of Alexander the Great.
The figures made of Greek marble were unearthed on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement.
Google Flu Trends may have failed but computers show travel helps Ebola spread
It's hard to say for sure whether the Ebola epidemic in West Africa will spill over into other parts of the world. But computer modeling can predict a lot - for example, which cities are most at risk.
Modern travel has no doubt made it easier for diseases to spread - and spread farther.
This is nothing new in that diseases have always traveled with us, even back in the day when our best modes of transport were our feet, or a horse and cart.
Over the ages, various forms of the plague have spread with us over whole continents.
It just happens a lot faster these days.
With planes flying from one side of the world to the other in a mere 24 hours, germs are having a field day.
For now, the Ebola virus seems to be contained in western Africa.
U.S. base opponents gain majority in Nago assembly
KYODO
NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – Candidates opposed to the planned replacement base in Nago for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma gained a majority in Sunday’s Nago Municipal Assembly election, clouding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s hopes to achieve the long-stalled transfer within Okinawa.
In the closely watched race seen as a prelude to the Okinawa gubernatorial election on Nov. 16, candidates opposed to the relocation won 16 seats in the 27-member assembly, while 11 were taken by supporters of the plan.
Among the 35 candidates running, 16 backed the new replacement facility in Nago for the Futenma base, which is now in the crowded city of Ginowan, while 19 were opposed.
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