28 October 2014 Last updated at 08:26
Columnist’s diatribe on French decline becomes a bestseller
Ebola outbreak: US advises against quarantine
US medics returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa will be actively monitored but not placed in quarantine under new US health rules.
The federal guidelines came after a nurse was put in isolation in a tent in New Jersey, a decision condemned by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Meanwhile, Australia has been criticised for a West Africa visa ban.
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected more than 10,000 people and killed almost 5,000.
People are not contagious until they develop Ebola symptoms and the UN Secretary-General's spokesman said "returning health workers are exceptional people who are giving of themselves for humanity".
Columnist’s diatribe on French decline becomes a bestseller
Éric Zemmour’s ‘The French Suicide’ attacks feminism, immigrants and ‘the gay lobby’
Lara Marlowe
That the title of the bestselling book in France this autumn is The French Suicide speaks volumes about the mood in Paris.
Each day, 5,000 people buy Éric Zemmour’s 544-page lamentation on “the 40 years that have undone France”.
Zemmour is a columnist for the conservative newspaper Le Figaro and a well-known television personality. His book has even overtaken former first lady Valérie Trierweiler’s account of President François Hollande’s boorishness.
Suicide is a bitter tale of a vague conspiracy by cowardly politicians, feminists, the “gay lobby,” film-makers, songwriters, Muslims, immigrants and high finance to destroy the French family and nation.
Chilean President: 'Latin America Has More Women in High Office than Europe'
Interview Conducted by Helene Zuber
In an interview, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet discusses her effort to remove the last vestiges of the Pinochet dictatorship and her desire to create a better social system and import German-style vocational training to South America.
Last year, Michelle Bachelet, 63, was elected to be president of Chile for the second time. When the Socialist politician became the country's first female president eight years ago, she symbolized the country's transformation after the end of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in 1990.
When she left office in 2010, she still had a popularity rating of over 80 percent. But she couldn't stand for re-elected because Chilean election law prohibits a president from serving two consecutive terms. A pediatrician by vocation, Bachelet is a single mother and is the daughter of Alberto Bachelet Martínez. Her father remained loyal to Salvador Allende, the Socialist president murdered after the 1972 military putsch. Bachelet would himself later die in prison following repeated torture.
Anwar Ibrahim stays in Malaysia as judicial noose tightens around his neck
October 28, 2014 - 1:32PMLindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Malaysia's charismatic opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he decided against setting up a government in-exile and returned to the country to face the likelihood of jail to set an example for younger Malaysians amid a crackdown on government critics.
Facing five years or more in jail on politically motivated charges, Dr Anwar, 67, says he ignored advice on recent travels overseas not to return to Malaysia where the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak has used colonial-era laws to investigate, charge and jail dozens of critics under its draconian Sedition Act.
"This is my village, my country. I cannot imagine, at this age, leaving," he said on the eve of the final stages of a so-called "sodomy" trial that human rights groups describe as a blatant attempt to end his political career and destroy his political alliance.
Dozens die in Lebanon as Army clashes with Sunni supporters of Islamic State
The fighting in northern Lebanon follows a series of unprecedented Sunni attacks against Lebanese troops in recent weeks. Sunnis in Lebanon accuse the army of being under the control of Hezbollah, a Shiite organization.
TRIPOLI, LEBANON — The thump of heavy machine gun fire echoed from tower blocks as thick black smoke billowed from the impoverished neighborhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh, a scene all too familiar for residents of this northern Lebanese city.
Usually the frequent bouts of violence here are sectarian, pitting Tripoli’s Sunnis against a small community of Alawites, a Shiite splinter sect. However, the fighting that erupted Friday and has left more than 40 people dead marks an unprecedented direct confrontation between the Lebanese Army and Sunni radical militants who support the extremist Islamic State (IS).
The fighting follows a series of near-daily small-scale shooting and bomb attacks in recent weeks against Lebanese troops in north Lebanon. The suspected Sunni perpetrators accuse the army of persecuting Sunnis and of being under the control of Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed Shiite party. The army has not directly addressed such accusations, but says it answers to the Lebanese state.
Japan opposition DPJ takes aim at Abe govt scandals, Abenomics
By Linda Sieg and Hitoshi Ishida9 minutes ago
Japan's main opposition party vowed on Tuesday to pursue Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over a string of cabinet funding scandals that have dented his popularity ratings, and attacked his signature "Abenomics" economic revival recipe as a failure.
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Secretary General Yukio Edano also said his party might have further revelations to make, but acknowledged it was too soon to say if fallout from the serial scandals would prove fatal for Abe's administration.
"I think this is a body blow to the government," Edano told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
"What we intend to reveal is that the (ruling) Liberal Democratic Party has not changed at all," said Edano, who served as chief cabinet secretary at the time of the Fukushima disaster and later headed the ministry of economy, trade and industry.
The Hasidic Hipsters Of Zusha Are Here To Rock The World Of Jewish Music
The three members of Zusha were raised amid varying flavors of Jewish culture. But call Zusha a “Jewish band,” and the musicians will balk at the label.
“We don’t want to be a Jewish band that stays in the world of Jewish music,” singer Shlomo Ari Gaisin, 23, told The Huffington Post while sipping a beer at a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Percussionist Elisha Mlotek agreed, telling HuffPost over the phone, “The music is deeper than religion. It’s deeper than a faith. I’m Jewish, but I’m a person. Let’s start from there.”
Gaisin wears a yarmulke, a beard and payot -- the iconic curls Hasidic men commonly sport. Mlotek, 24, and guitarist Zachariah Goldshmiedt, 22, both now keep their hair short but also wear yarmulkes. On the band’s website, they refer to themselves as “three neo-Hasidic dudes with less passion for college and more passion for music” -- but even that hyphenated coinage, they say, is not an exact fit.
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