24 November 2014 Last updated at 08:21
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut has blasted off to begin its journey to the International Space Station.
Iran nuclear deal: Deadline day brings talk of extension
Negotiators in Vienna, Austria, are set to make a final push to try to reach a deal on Iran's nuclear programme ahead of a midnight (23:00 GMT) deadline.
They said earlier that "serious gaps" remained, suggesting that an extension could be agreed instead.
World powers - the US, UK, Russia, China, France and Germany - want Iran to curb its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of UN sanctions.
Tehran says it is not seeking nuclear weapons, but wants atomic energy.
"At the moment, we are focused on the last push... to try and get this across the line," British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
"Of course, if we're not able to do that, we will then look at where we're going from there."
A senior US state department official told reporters: "It is only natural that just over 24 hours from the deadline we are discussing a range of options... an extension is one of those options."
Benjamin Netanyahu’s bill fails to accord Arabs social and political rights
How the Dutch love of cycling is glowing in the dark to inspire innovation
Aims to reduce carbon emissions have sparked an innovative boom in The Netherlands. It starts with glow-in-the-dark, solar powered, heated cycle lanes, and may go anywhere. Suzanna Koster, Eindhoven.
For a country that has more bicycles than residents, these words will seem unbelievable: "What we see is that the bicycle is getting more popular."
We're in The Netherlands.
And Martijn van Es of the Dutch Cyclists' Union laughs as he says the words. But here's the catch: "It's not just with cyclists, but also with policy makers and engineers."
The global economic crisis - including widespread energy concerns - has inspired engineers and policy makers to look for more cost-effective, environmentally friendly, winter-proof bicycle lanes.
Their quest has resulted in innovations seen nowhere else in the world.
Italy's first female astronaut blasts off to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut has blasted off to begin its journey to the International Space Station.
Moscow: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Italy's first female astronaut has blasted off to begin its journey to the International Space Station.
Samantha Cristoforetti was joined by Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and American astronaut Terry Virts in the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft, which launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2101 GMT, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement.
"Soyuz safely in orbit, next stop ISS," NASA wrote in a tweet, while live images of the launch showed Mr Virts giving the thumbs up and smiling.
Damage getting worse in Japan earthquake
The magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck after nightfall; now, by the light of day, reports are coming in suggesting the damage is greater than previously thought.
The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved more extensive than initially thought.
A daylight assessment Sunday found at least 50 homes destroyed in two villages, and 41 people injured across the region, including seven seriously, mostly with broken bones, officials said.
The magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday west of Nagano city at a depth of 5 kilometers (3 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency revised the magnitude and depth from initial estimates. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.2. Since the quake occurred inland, there was no possibility of a tsunami.
Al-Shabab denies Kenya reprisal over bus raid |
Group refutes claim by Kenya deputy president that more than 100 of their fighters were killed in retaliatory attack.
Hamza MohamedLast updated: 24 Nov 2014 08:05
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Somalia’s rebel group, al-Shabab, has denied claims by Kenyan authorities that more than 100 of their fighters, who allegedly masterminded an attack on a bus in northern Kenya, were killed by Kenyan forces.
Deputy President William Ruto, said on Sunday that his country’s armed forces carried out a cross-border attack in which they targeted the perpetrators of Saturday’s attack in which 28 bus passengers were killed near the town of Mandera.
"Two successful operations in the hideouts of the perpetrators of Mandera executions were swiftly carried out across the border. Our retaliatory action left in its trail more than a hundred fatalities." Ruto said in an address to the nation outside his office in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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