26 November 2014 Last updated at 09:25
Ferguson shooting: Protests spread across US
A dozen US cities have seen new protests over the decision not to charge a white policeman who shot a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
Demonstrations from New York to Seattle were mostly peaceful but rioting broke out in Oakland, California.
There was some unrest in Ferguson itself, with police making 44 arrests, but the town did not see rioting on the scale of Monday night.
The officer who killed Michael Brown there says he has a "clean conscience".
Darren Wilson, who shot the 18-year-old on 9 August, told ABC News that in the struggle which preceded the shooting, he had felt "like a five-year-old holding on to [US wrestler] Hulk Hogan".
Hong Kong student leaders arrested as police try to clear protest zone
Joshua Wong and Lester Shum among activists arrested as police try to clear Mong Kok neighbourhood following a court order
Hong Kong police arrested two high-profile student leaders on Wednesday morning, pro-democracy demonstrators said as scuffles broke out during police attempts to clear one of the zones held by protesters.
Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, whose detention was reported by the Hong Kong Students Federation and the South China Morning Post, came after a night of clashes with police in the Mong Kok neighborhood.
A total of 116 people were being held for offences including unlawful assembly and assaulting or obstructing police. Officers used pepper spray as they tried to disperse crowds, although many protesters remained in the area despite the clearance attempt.
'Make thicker walls': Terrorism fears high as drones survey French nuclear reactors
More than 30 civilian drones have been seen over French nuclear reactors over the past two months. Greenpeace suspects terrorist activity and wants the reactors shut down.
This story goes back to October 5, when French energy company Electricite de France began seeing things in the sky above three of its nuclear reactors in the southwest of the country.
They saw drones flying over the facilities - over several areas at the same time. But the company had no idea who was operating the drones or why.
Since then, more than 30 drones have been spotted.
Oda Becker is a physicist and nuclear consultant, who has written a report on the drones.
Opposing Japan's whaling program is 'eco-imperialism'
Elaine Lies
Opposition to Japan's whaling programme is a kind of "eco-imperialism" that imposes one value system on another and is based on emotion, not science - much the way killing elephants is now opposed, Japan's top whaling official said on Wednesday.
Tokyo last week unveiled plans to resume whale hunting in the Southern Ocean in 2015-2015 despite an international court ruling that previous hunts were illegal, although it also slashed the quota for the so-called scientific whaling programme.
Joji Morishita, Japan's commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, said the new proposal, which calls for taking 333 minke whales instead of 900, is Tokyo's latest attempt to pursue sustainable whaling according to scientific principles.
Russia says it will 'wait patiently' as France suspends Mistral warship sale (+video)
France was under heavy pressure from NATO allies not to go through with the sale of the helicopter carrier amid rising tensions over Ukraine.
France suspended the planned delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday, yielding to months of growing pressure from allies who called for an end to the deal because of the conflict in Ukraine.
French President François Hollande announced the suspension "until further notice," for now ending months of speculation about the deal amid mounting tensions between Russia and the West. Mr. Hollande has said delivery of the Vladivostok helicopter carrier can't begin until a Sept. 5 cease-fire agreement is implemented between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
But Tuesday's statement, like a previous suspension of the delivery, stopped short of canceling the deal entirely. The French government appears reluctant to give up a contract worth 1.2 billion euros ($1.5 billion) and thousands of jobs at a time of slow economic growth, The Associated Press reports.
China ships pay first post-Japan summit visit to disputed isles
Chinese ships returned to territorial waters around islands at the centre of a dispute with Japan on Tuesday, the coastguard said, the first incursion since a Sino-Japanese summit aimed at reducing tensions.
Three Chinese coastguard vessels sailed into the 12-nautical-mile zone around the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China claims and calls the Diaoyus, shortly after 10:00 am (0100 GMT), the Japanese coastguard said. They left two hours later.
China's State Oceanic Administration said in a statement on its website that Chinese coastguard vessels "patrolled Chinese territorial waters near the Diaoyu islands today".
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