2 December 2014 Last updated at 08:27
Al-Shabab massacres non-Muslims at Kenya quarry
Al-Shabab gunmen have killed 36 mostly Christian quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera.
The attackers from the Somalia-based Islamist militant group separated Muslims from non-Muslims and shot the Christians dead, residents said.
Earlier, one person was killed in a bar popular with non-Muslims in a neighbouring district.
Al-Shabab killed 28 people in an attack on a bus targeting non-Muslims in the same area last week.
The attack on the quarry workers took place early on Tuesday. Witnesses said the victims were caught after midnight, while sleeping in their tents at the quarry.
Lebanese army detains wife and son of Islamic State leader
Wife travelling with fake passport questioned at HQ of Lebanese defence ministry
The Lebanese army detained a wife and a son of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria in recent days, security officials said on Tuesday.
The officials declined to give the name or nationality of the woman whom they described as one of his wives.
The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported the army had detained her in coordination with “foreign intelligence apparatus”.
It said she had been travelling with a fake passport accompanied by one of her sons.
Opinion: Mourning for Tugce
Germany has lost a young woman who had everything to live for, but has has also gained a new hero. Verica Spasovska hopes that Tugce A's violent death will not be in vain.
Tugce A intervened on behalf of the weak, and paid for it with her life. This courageous Turkish-German student stepped in to protect defenseless young girls who were being harassed by thugs, andbecame a victim herself. Tugce A died on her 23rd birthday as the result of a brutal beating. The whole of Germany is in mourning for this brave and vibrant young woman. The whole of Germany is bowing its head in respect and admiration for her.
On the night of her death hundreds of people held a candlelight vigil in front of the hospital where she lay, until her life support machines were switched off. Hundreds of thousands have registered their sympathy and admiration on social media. Politicians, too, have been expressing their condolences: Not only has German President Joachim Gauck written to her parents to express his shock at her death, he is also considering posthumously awarding the national Order of Merit to Tugce A for her civil courage.
James Watson, the father of DNA, is selling his Nobel prize because everyone thinks he's racist
December 2, 2014 - 5:35 PMRachel Feltman
James Watson, known to many as one of the "fathers of DNA" for his scientific discoveries, is putting his Nobel prize on the auction block this Thursday with a reserve price of $US2.5 million ($2.94 million). Why part with the prestigious award now, over 50 years after winning it? After all, no living recipient of the award has ever sold it before.
In short, Watson said some racist things back in 2007, and the publication of those comments had an impact on his income. In what certainly has the appearance of the most passive aggressive gesture of all time, Watson is selling his award in the hopes it will bolster the income he receives from his academic appointments – and perhaps finance the purchase of some new artwork.
But the 86-year-old Watson, who told the Financial Times that he'd become an "unperson" after his 2007 remarks (more on those in a second), isn't getting much sympathy: Instead, the widely publicised sale is drawing attention to the very comments that got him ostracised from academia in the first place.
Talks on climate change get underway in Peru (+video)
The biggest challenge for the United Nations-sponsored talks is dividing responsibilities between rich Western countries and emerging economies such as China and India.
LIMA, PERU — With this year on track to become the warmest on record, more than 190 nations began talks Monday on new limits for the greenhouse gases that are causing billions of dollars in damage and making life harder to sustain around the world.
New targets for limiting gas emissions blamed on fossil fuels were announced ahead of this conference by the U.S., the European Union andChina, the first Asian nation to make such a pledge. This has injected optimism into negotiations that are supposed to climax in Paris next year with the adoption of a long-awaited climate pact.
Japan starts chemical weapon destruction in China
A Japanese-built facility in China on Monday began destroying the largest cache of World War II chemical weapons abandoned in the country, Tokyo officials said, in a rare case of co-operation between the two countries.
The facility has been built in Harbaling in the northeast, where some 300,000 to 400,000 chemical weapons are believed to have been left behind, a government official at Japan's Cabinet Office told AFP.
Both Japanese and Chinese staff work at the facility, the official said, adding: "As our responsiblity, we will sincerely proceed with the disposal by paying great attention to the safety of local people and the environment."
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