Israeli soldiers injured in Shebaa Farms missile attack
Israeli army reportedly returning fire after missile attack on military vehicle injured at least four soldiers.
The Israeli army has said an anti-tank missile was fired at a military vehicle in Shabaa farms on the border with Syria and Lebanon.
Israeli media reports on Wednesday said four soldiers were wounded as a result of the attack.
The Israelis then fired shells across the border into southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese army.
A Lebanese army spokesman said the missile was not fired from Lebanese territory, and that the artillery response by Israel was randomly falling on areas along the border, although no shells have fallen into villages with civilians yet.
Shabaa Farms is a small strip of disputed land at the intersection of the Lebanese-Syrian border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Isis Japanese hostage crisis: Kenji Goto's mother pleads with Shinzo Abe to save son after militants give 24 hours for prisoner swap
Beijing smog makes city ‘unliveable’, says mayor
Polluting factories and skyrocketing vehicle ownership blamed as report finds tourism to Chinese city falls 10% on year before
Beijing’s mayor, Wang Anshun, has called the city “unliveable” because of its noxious smog, according to state media.
“To establish a first-tier, international, liveable and harmonious city, it is very important to establish a system of standards, and Beijing is currently doing this,” he said last Friday, according to the China Youth Daily newspaper.
“At the present time, however, Beijing is not a liveable city.”
Anshun’s speech came days before the market research company Euromonitor International announced, in its findings on the global tourism market in 2013, that tourism to Beijing had declined by 10% from the year before due to pollution and a countrywide economic slowdown.
Report reveals magnitude of criminality in South Africa police
Institute of Race Relations finds 1 per cent of officers have criminal records
Bill Corcoran
A new study into serious and violent crimes perpetrated by members of South Africa’s police force has revealed that the public’s propensity to distrust and fear the nation’s law enforcement officers is often well placed.
Released today, Broken Blue Line 2 is the second instalment of a two-report project compiled by the Institute of Race Relations that examines police criminality and the official response to it, which the institute claims is falling short of what is required to stamp out the problem.
Although authorities have been making arrests and efforts to clean up the police force, there has been no significant decline in criminality compared to what the first Broken Blue Line report found in 2011, the institute claims.
The Belgium Question: Why Is a Small Country Producing So Many Jihadists?
By Katrin Kuntz and Gregor Peter SchmitzRelative to the size of its population, no other country in Europe sends as many young jihadists to Syria as Belgium does. But why? Some say one problem lies with the fractured nature of the country itself.
Chantal Lebon last saw her son at a bus stop in Brussels. That was two years ago in October "at exactly 10:25 p.m.," she says. Abdel had driven his mother there in a car, stopped in a parking spot and lifted her suitcase onto the sidewalk.
"Au revoir, maman," he said. "Au revoir, mon fils," she replied. It was only months later that she would again see her son's face -- in a YouTube video. It showed him wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh and holding a Kalashnikov. The video was stamped with the flag used by the Islamic State in Syria.
Chantal Lebon is a small, energetic 64-year-old retired nursery school teacher with blue eyes and graying hair. She has come to a café to tell us the story of her son Abdel, the story of a Belgian child who became a radical Islamist fighter at the age of 23. Abdel had nothing to do with the attack plans in Belgium, his mother says. But, she confirms, her son is a jihadist.
Scores of foreign fighters among Kobane dead
Washington (AFP) - Large numbers of foreign fighters are among the jihadists killed in the battle for the Syrian town of Kobane, a senior US official said Tuesday, saying the concerted campaign was halting the militants' march.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) announced the "liberation" of Kobane on Monday, depriving the Islamic State group (IS) of a strategic prize to add to its territory in Syria and Iraq.
The United States says Kurdish fighters are now in control of about 90 percent of the town on the Syrian-Turkish border.
"ISIL is now, whether on order or whether they are breaking ranks, is beginning to withdraw from the town," a senior State Department official told reporters.
But he warned that the militants, also known as ISIL, were "adaptive and resilient" and no-one was declaring "mission accomplished" yet.
The US and some 60 coalition partners is engaged in the "first phase of a multi-year campaign," he stressed.
28 January 2015 Last updated at 08:22Apple posts the biggest quarterly profit in history
US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company.
Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which tops the $15.9bn made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012, according to Standard and Poor's.
Record sales of iPhones were behind the surge in profits.
Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones in the three months to 27 December - well ahead of most analysts' expectations.
In a conference call with financial analysts Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said that demand for phones was "staggering".
However, sales of the iPad continued to disappoint, falling by 18% in 2014 from a year earlier.
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