MH370 search: Plane debris arrives in Paris
- 1 August 2015
- Europe
A piece of debris that experts believe could be from missing flight MH370 has arrived in Paris from the French island where it was found on Wednesday.
The object, believed to be part of a wing, was flown to the French capital from Reunion in the Indian Ocean.
From there it will be transported to a defence ministry laboratory in Toulouse for analysis.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished in March 2014.
There were 239 passengers and crew on board.
Since then, an Australian-led search effort has been focused on a vast area of the southern Indian Ocean about 4,000km (2,500 miles) to the east of Reunion, a French overseas department to the east of Madagascar.
Survivors of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack: Japan must not abandon its post-war pacifism
Hungary's flawed fence offers refugees hope
As Hungary continues work on a border fence, its neighbor Serbia is struggling to cope with an influx of refugees. Can a 21-million-euro fence stop these desperate people? Lidija Tomic visited the border to find out.
Amid dense shrubs and bushes, the first 150-meter " sample section" of the planned 175-kilometer-long fence has been built on the outskirts of the southern town of Morahalom.
You would think that at 4 meters high it's difficult to miss, however the fence is still relatively well hidden. Looking from the Serbian side, the border is covered by thick greenery. For hungry and exhausted migrants walking through the sandy orchards and vineyards in 40C-degree heat, it might seem like an oasis. The whole area is overgrown with weeds, bushes and trees, and is an ideal place to rest while preparing for the next move - much like Omar and his friends did. They were following the hose that had irrigated the nearby field, looking for some water to drink and cool down from the burning sun.
"We have been traveling from Syria for three weeks now. My home was destroyed by an army rocket, and I didn't know what to do but to join my friends in their search for a better life. We won't stay long here, we are looking for the border," said Omar, 17-year-old boy from Aleppo, not realizing he was only 5 meters away from the Hungarian fence.
NBA stars set to dazzle African fans
Latest update : 2015-08-01
Basketball stars including Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers and Luol Deng of Miami Heat warmed up Friday for the NBA's first game in Africa, as the sport looks to expand into the continent.
The sold-out exhibition game at the Ellis Park arena in Johannesburg on Saturday will pit a team withAfrican links captained by Deng against a "world team" captained by Paul.
"I think what makes it so special is that it's the first game over here," Paul told AFP.
"We want to make sure we give the fans a great game."
Five-time NBA Champion Gregg Popovich will coach Team Africa, which includes Deng, who was born in South Sudan, Luc Mbah a Moute from Cameroon, Senegalese Gorgui Dieng and Frenchman Boris Diaw, whose father is from Senegal.
"The first thing they need is infrastructure. Sports infrastructure needs to be put in place, basketball courts that are modern, and they also need balls and all that," said Diaw during training.
Founder of Haqqani network long dead: aide
August 1, 2015 - 1:36PMIhsanullah Tipu Mehsud
Islamabad: The founder of the Haqqani network, considered to be one of the most violently effective factions of the Taliban, has been dead for nearly a year, a senior member of the group has said, days after it emerged that the Afghan insurgency's overall leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, died more than two years ago.
A US diplomatic official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the US had not yet confirmed that Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the militant faction that bears his family name, had died. But the official said Haqqani had been seriously ill for years, and that little to nothing has been heard of him "for a while now".
The Taliban, which confirmed on Thursday that Omar had died, has yet to make a formal announcement about Haqqani. But like Omar's passing, the death of Haqqani would be a landmark in the wars that have engulfed Afghanistan since the 1980s.Why choice of Beijing to host 2022 Winter Olympics worries even IOC
The IOC on Friday chose Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympics – essentially the only candidate left standing.
In the days before the International Olympic Committee decided to award the 2022 Winter Games to Beijing, there was no sense of anticipation, no sense of occasion.
The choice of an Olympic host city is typically a raucous occasion, one part Hercule Poirot mystery, one part civic hedonism. It's the beauty pageant before the bills start coming in. But the scene at this week's IOC session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was strangely subdued, reported Ed Hula of Around the Rings, a website the follows the Olympic movement, in a podcast.
On Friday, the IOC chose Beijing to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, making Beijing the first city to host the Winter and Summer Games.
China Builds World's Largest Aircraft Carrier Dock in South China Sea
Zachary Keck
China has built the world’s largest aircraft carrier dock in its naval base in the South China Sea.
This week the Canadian-based Asian security magazine, Kanwa Asian Defence,reported that China had completed work on a 700 meter-long dock at its sprawling Sanya naval complex in Hainan province in the South China Sea. According to the report, the dock is able to service ships on both sides, allowing it to accommodate two aircraft carriers or other large ships at the same time.
That would make the new dock the longest in the world. Indeed, the report noted that America’s aircraft carrier docks in Norfolk, Virginia, as well as its carrier base in Japan, were between 400 and 430 meters long.
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