Palestinians set fire to Joseph's Tomb Jewish holy site
Palestinians have torched a Jewish holy site in the West Bank city of Nablus, amid soaring tensions with Israel.
Rioters set fire to a tomb which Jews revere as that of the biblical figure Joseph. Palestinian security forces managed to put out the blaze.
It came hours after Israel's PM called on the Palestinian leadership to stop a wave of attacks.
There have been near-daily stabbings by Palestinians of Israelis this month, as violence between the two sides spirals.
Israel's military spokesman Lt Col Peter Lerner tweeted that attack on Joseph's Tomb was "a blatant violation of the basic value of freedom of worship".
He said Israeli security forces would "bring perpetrators to justice and restore the site".
Afghan refugee shot dead by Bulgarian police near border with Turkey
The man, from Afghanistan, was with a large group of refugees who reportedly resisted arrestLizzie Dearden
A man from Afghanistan has been shot dead by police in Bulgaria in front of his fellow refugees.
Bulgaria’s interior ministry said he was with a large group of “offenders” who had crossed the border from Turkey as they journeyed on the Balkans route towards western Europe.
“Our border patrol of border guards and police in the area had stumbled on 50 offenders, who illegally entered the country,” Georgi Kostov, the ministry’s chief secretary, told national radio.
“They put up resistance during the arrest. One of the officers fired warning shots and, in his words, one of the migrants was wounded by a ricochet and later died.”Opinion: Different day, same story
Ongoing support from UEFA for its president, Michel Platini, and FIFA's appointment of Issa Hayatou, accused of corruption, as its president has further tarnished football's reputation, says DW's Joscha Weber.
Sometimes a comparison can be helpful in demonstrating the scope of a set of facts. Since 2006, one of the biggest corporate corruption scandals in history has unfolded.
It has come to light that major German corporation Siemens bribed business partners around the world, hoarded billions in secret slush funds and plowed a lot of money into a special sort of landscaping. As a result, Siemens boss Klaus Kleinfeld had to go - and many other executives followed. It would have been unthinkable and unacceptable for Kleinfeld's deputy, who was also implicated in the case, to have taken charge of the company shortly after the scandal. In football, it's a different story.
Issa Hayatou has taken over, at least on a temporary basis, as the head of FIFA. Former President Sepp Blatter was recently handed a 90-day suspension by world soccer's governing body. The 69-year-old is a loyal Blatter devotee, was a central pillar of his system and always a reliable deliverer of votes for his former boss.
Living in a slum in the name of enlightenment
Brook Mitchell
Sertar, Garze: In the northern summer of 2001, thousands of Chinese security personnel, backed by an army of labourers armed with sledgehammers, massed at the entry of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute.
In this almost impossibly remote place, sitting high on the Tibetan Plateau, 9000 monks and nuns had found a home, defying decades of China's aggressive atheist policies to learn from its charismatic and avowedly apolitical founder, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok.
The authorities had long been skittish about the remarkable growth of the institute, and particularly alarmed by its growing appeal to ordinary Han Chinese. By 2001, more than 1000 Han called Larung Gar home.
Ex-hostage: ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John' made me tango with him
Updated 0101 GMT (0801 HKT) October 16, 2015
In a vivid new description of ISIS' brutal executioner, a former hostage says his captor was not only sadistic, but bizarre.
Daniel Rye, a 26-year-old photographer from Denmark who was held captive in Syria for more than a year, said that one of his jailers was the hooded figure in black who spoke in ISIS execution videos.
In an interview this week, Rye described an encounter with the man, who has been nicknamed "Jihadi John" by the British tabloids.
"He picked me up and I had to dance the tango, John and I," Rye told Danish broadcaster DR. "My head was down and afraid of being beaten. He led me around the prison. Suddenly, he changed and just pushed me down. They kicked and hit me. They finished by threatening to cut my nose off with pliers and things like that."
Ghana’s first-ever liberal arts college opens the door for more in Africa
A 2015 MacArthur Genuis Grantee opened Africa's first liberal arts college in Ghana almost fifteen years ago. It may pave the way for more schools.
To most people, starting the first-ever liberal arts college in Ghana, a country where just one in 20 students go to college, would seem like a fantasy. But software millionaire Patrick Awuah saw it as an opportunity.
“I realized that most of the problems in this country and the rest of the continent, leadership is a fundamental problem. I felt if we could change the way that group was educated, then we would change the continent,” Mr. Awuah said in an interview with the MacArthur Foundation.
Awuah founded Ashesi University College in Ghana's capital, Accra 13 years ago with a class of 30 students. Today, the school has 631 students – with nearly half receiving scholarships. The school is based on the American liberal-arts college model, like that of Swarthmore College, from which Awuah graduated in 1989: small classrooms, close mentorships with professors, and an emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving.
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