24 October 2014 Last updated at 06:26
King’s College London has been keeping track of death toll from those Britons who have travelled to the region to join fighting
Interactive: the 23 British jihadi’s killing in Syria and Iraq
Mary Boland
Ebola outbreak: NY doctor Craig Spencer tests positive
A New York doctor who recently returned from Ebola-hit Guinea in West Africa has tested positive for the disease.
Dr Craig Spencer, who treated Ebola patients while working for the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), came down with a fever on Thursday, days after his return, officials say.
He is the first Ebola case diagnosed in New York, and the fourth in the US.
More than 4,800 people have died of Ebola - mainly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - since March.
Dr Spencer, 33, left Guinea on 14 October, and returned to New York City on 17 October via Europe. On Tuesday he began to feel tired and developed a fever and diarrhoea on Thursday.
One British jihadi killed in Syria and Iraq every three weeks, study finds
King’s College London has been keeping track of death toll from those Britons who have travelled to the region to join fighting
Interactive: the 23 British jihadi’s killing in Syria and Iraq
British jihadis are being killed in the conflict in Syria and Iraq at a rate of over one every three weeks, according to the most thorough documentation of the death toll to date.
Overall, 23 Britons are believed to have died after travelling to fight in the bloody civil war, says King’s College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). ICSR’s figures were updated following Tuesday’s revelation that Mamanour Roshid, 24, had become the third man from Portsmouth to have been killed in Syria.
Roshid was part of a group of five Bengali men who travelled from the port city in October 2013 to join Ifthekar Jaman, 23, also from Portsmouth, who died a few months later. Another of the Portsmouth jihadis, Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, was reported killed in July.
Latvia keen to counter Moscow moves to whitewash horrors of the past
Thousands were tortured and killed at the KGB’s ‘House on the Corner’
Mary Boland
The elegant but weather-worn “House on the Corner” stands six storeys high in central Riga, its playful blend of neoclassical and art nouveau features belying countless atrocities committed inside. Latvians tell a characteristically caustic joke about the building, which served as the country’s KGB headquarters for almost 50 years: it was the only place in the capital that offered views of Siberia.
“If you came here looking for a family member who had suddenly disappeared, and you were told they had been sentenced to 25 years, you could be certain that they had been exiled to Siberia and that you’d never see them again. ‘Twenty-five years’ – that was the euphemism,” says Aija Abens, a Latvian-Canadian whose parents fled to Canada during the Soviet occupation and who has guided visitors through the building since it opened to the public for the first time in May as part of Riga’s year as European Capital of Culture.
Opinion: Mexico's uprising for the rule of law
Four weeks after the alleged massacre in Iguala, the perpetrators have been named and warrants issued for their arrest. But the protests will continue - rightly so, says DW's Uta Thofern.
Bit by bit, investigations are confirming what has been clear to everyone in Mexico for weeks. Of course the mayor of Iguala and his wife were behind the disappearance of the 43 student teachers. Of course these two local politicians had been hand in glove with local criminal gangs, who in turn were in league with the town's police. The whole system could never have worked otherwise. How is a local mayor supposed to exercise power if he has no money to distribute, and no "narcos," as the drug gangsters are known, to implement his interpretation of the law by force?
For most Mexicans, the results of the attorney general's investigation were no surprise, because Iguala is not an isolated case. Encouraged by the extreme social inequality that still exists in Mexico, corruption is common at all levels of the administration. It is hardly surprising that police officers, too, are prepared to collaborate with organized crime, especially since the narcos resort to brutal violence if anyone tries to oppose them. The fact that, for the most part, they can bank on going unpunished relates to the good connections many politicians have with the drugs mafia. See above. And so the administration and the criminals work together unimpeded in many places.
India logs on to check if public servants are at work
Jason Koutsoukis
South Asia correspondent at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Delhi: Feeling tied up by the red tape spooling from the silos housing Canberra's public servants? Suspicious, even, that those bureaucrats are not working hard enough to clear your particular piece of paper?
Imagine a system, then, that allowed people not only to see what percentage of public servants were at work on any day, but also check whether a public servant was actually sitting at his or her desk.
Welcome to the world of India's sprightly new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who recently launched a website that allows his country's 1.2 billion citizens to see exactly how many of their notoriously work-shy civil servants are on the job.Islamic State siege of Kobane: Did Turkey shoot itself in the foot? (+video)
The Iraqi Kurds have agreed to send fighters to help Kobane fend off the Islamic State. Critics say Turkey’s foot-dragging on the siege alienated its allies.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — The decision by Iraq’s Kurdish regional government to send fighters with heavy weapons to reinforce the beleaguered Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane is offering hope to its defenders, who have been holding off fighters from the self-declared Islamic State in a 37-day siege.
But the decision caps a disastrous week for Turkey, which is looking increasingly isolated and at odds with its Western allies, after having branded the town’s defenders as terrorists no different from the jihadi forces attacking them.
Earlier this week the United States airdropped weapons to the defenders of the town, who are mostly from the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which controls most of Syria’s Kurdish-populated region.
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