Turkish PM blames Ankara bombing on Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS) group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Saturday, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said.
No group has said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide bombers caused the explosions.
The official death toll is 97, but one of the main groups at the march put the toll at 128.
The funerals of more of the victims are taking place on Monday.
Saturday's explosions ripped through a crowd of activists gathering outside the main railway station in the Turkish capital.
Man who bought Google domain name for $12 gives his 'reward' from the search giant to charity
Sanmay Ved owned the search giant's 'google.com' domain for a few minutes before the comany cancelled the sale
The man who briefly owned the web address google.com before Google caught up with him has given the money the company paid him for identifying the 'glitch' to charity.
In recognition of that, Google doubled the reward.
Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, purchased the domain name through the company's own Google Domains service in September for just $12 (£7.80).
Google cancelled the sale minutes later.
Writing online, Mr Ved, a self-professed "loyal Googler", said the company had since contacted him and "offered me a $x reward in a very Googley way".
No 'safe' asylum for female refugees in Europe
Female migrants coming to Europe are exposed to physical and sexual violence while living in cramped shelters with other refugees. But cultural prejudices and trauma make it difficult for them to talk about abuse.
Nesrin, a 20-year-old refugee from Syria, arrived in Bonn barely a month ago and is one of the few women willing to speak to journalists about her experiences during her hard and long journey to Europe.
Her family made their way from Turkey to Greece, crossing then to Hungary from Macedonia before finally arriving in Munich and being sent to Bonn aboard a special train. The most difficult part for her, she said, was being stranded in a Hungarian prison with hundreds of other - mostly male - migrants for several days.
"It is very, very difficult for us," Nesrin tells DW. "I can't hold hands with a man and I cannot lie down in front of a man," she explains, adding that her culture is very conservative. "In Arabic society…if I don't talk to a man and don't give him signs, he won't bother me," she says, answering a question on whether she had any bad experiences traveling together in closed spaces with male refugees.
Bao Zhuoxuan, teenage son of Chinese rights lawyer, back under surveillance in China
Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: Bao Zhuoxuan, the 16-year-old son of detained rights lawyer Wang Yu, has been quietly repatriated to China after being "abducted" in a Burmese border town during a failed attempt to flee the mainland, family friends and rights activists said.
Liang Bo, a close family friend based in San Francisco, said the teenager was now back with his elderly grandmother in Inner Mongolia.
But Ms Liang held grave concerns for the teenager's welfare given he remained uncontactable and was likely under heavier surveillance by Chinese authorities than before."How did this child disappear in Myanmar and then, a few days later, was returned to his grandmother's home?" she said in a phone interview. "I can't imagine what the child has gone through."
China looks to the stars with creation of world's largest radio telescope
Updated 0602 GMT (1302 HKT) October 12, 2015
Is there anybody out there?
A massive engineering and scientific project in China is expected to take us one step closer in our quest to discover if we are truly alone in the universe.
The country's military-led space program is constructing the world's largest radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, and Chinese state media recently released images of the amazing structure nearing completion.
The massive construction project -- when completed the dish itself will be the size of 30 football pitches -- has the potential to be a game-changer for our understanding of the universe, and our search for life on other planets.
How Traveling In China Went From Adventure To Ordeal
Traveling in China used to be fun, sometimes even relaxing. As recently as the late 1990s, you could go to a Tibetan monastery out west that your Chinese friends had never heard of, hang out with nomads and chat with monks. Crowds were rare.
Those days are mostly over. China's rapid economic rise means many people now have the money to travel. And that's a good thing. Chinese should get to know their country better.
The problem: There are just too many people.
Over the weeklong holiday that just wrapped up here, more than 500 million people hit the road, taking at least one trip and jamming tourist sites. Images online showed crowds swamping the Great Wall outside Beijing and inundating a glass bridge suspended over a gorge in southern China.
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