Turkey 'suicide bomb': many killed in Ankara attack
Up to 20 people killed in blast before planned march in Turkish capital to protest against conflict between state and Kurdish militants
Up to 20 people have been killed in a terrorist attack on a peace rally in the centre of the Turkish capital, according to reports.
At least one explosion occurred at a road junction in Ankara on Saturday morning, when hundreds had gathered to protest violence between authorities and Kurdish separatist group, the PKK.
Turkish government officials said the explosion was a terrorist attack and are investigating the claim that a suicide bomber was responsible.
A Reuters reporter at the scene saw at least 15 bodies covered by flags, with bloodstains and body parts scattered on the road. Another witness told CNN there were two blasts, each so powerful they rocked high-rise buildings that were nearby.
North Korea: Kim Jong-un sacks own sister after security lapse where he almost 'got hit in the face by a guitar'
Kim Yo-jong previously oversaw her brother's security
Kim Jong-un reportedly sacked his own sister following a security blunder where he was very nearly hit in the face with the guitar.
Kim Yo-jong , the sister of the North Korean leader, was a senior official in the Workers’ Party and oversaw the leader’s security.
A source told South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, Mr Kim was almost hit in the face with a guitar after a musician tried to get closer to the leader.
Another incident, which is thought to have contributed to the dismissal, occurred in May at a youth festival. As Mr Kim was taking photographs with the crowds, the crowd rushed towards him and some managed to grab him.
Ms Kim had reportedly organised the event in an attempt to promote “a more accessible image of her brother”
Bavaria's 'self-defense measures' against refugees cause outrage
Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer continues to defy Chancellor Angela Merkel by threatening that Bavarian might go it alone in restricting migrant movements. The measures would have an impact on neighboring Austria.
In a direct challenge to his fellow Christian Democrat, Chancellor Merkel, who has said there would be no cap on the number of refugees taken in by Germany , Seehofer has announced what he has called "self-defense measures" against refugees arriving in Bavaria.
In an interview with German daily "Bild," Seehofer said the state government would agree on a wide-ranging package of measures at a state government meeting on Friday that included "integration, education and training."
"On top of that there will be specific self-defense measures to limit migration, such as sending back people to the border with Austria and the immediate transfer of newly-arrived asylum seekers within Germany," Seehofer said on his Facebook page.
It is highly doubtful that Bavaria has any legal basis to implement this type of measures on state level. Austria has nevertheless reacted immediately, with Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner announcing that Austria would have to act to "slow down the flow of migrants and implement more and more intensive border controls."Bao Zhuoxuan, teenage son of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, is missing
Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Beijing: The teenage son of a detained human rights lawyer blocked by Chinese authorities from attending high school in Australia has gone missing in Myanmar while attempting to flee China.
Bao Zhuoxuan, 16, was taken from his hotel on Tuesday by uniformed men in the Burmese town of Mong La, near the Chinese border, according to rights activists helping with his journey.
Mr Bao had been en route to Thailand where he planned to apply for asylum in the United States, having been under constant surveillance and harassment from Chinese authorities since his parents, prominent lawyer Wang Yu and legal activist Bao Longjun, were detained in July amid a sweeping government crackdown on lawyers in China.
"We believed we could find a way for him to travel as a refugee," Zhou Fengshuo, a US-based rights activist who had travelled to Thailand to meet Mr Bao, told Fairfax Media
To stay or go? Migrant women weigh risk of border crossing
A network of female volunteers in Honduras is helping women who are planning to make the perilous trek north – and counseling those who have returned.
TEGUCIGALPA AND SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS — When neighbors come to Vilma López to say they’re thinking about migrating north, the first thing she tells them is “please, don’t risk it.” When it’s a woman, she says it twice.
Out of the roughly 183 homes in her mountainous town of La Guadalupe Cedros – made up of a handful of hilltop villages – she knows of at least 35 people who embarked on the journey to the US in the past few years who were never heard from again. Almost all of them were women.
Anyone – male or female – traveling clandestinely through Central America, Mexico, and into the United States faces a litany of dangers, from extortion to kidnapping and deadly accidents to murder. But women are particularly vulnerable: nongovernmental organizations and shelters estimate that between 60 percent and 80 percent are raped at least once while migrating north. Many are recruited or coerced into sex work in brothels and bars in Guatemala and Mexico.
Okinawa: The Japan you might not know
CNN Travel staff
If you've ever had the urge to hit up Google with the phrase "Where is Okinawa?," you're not alone.
Despite being the site of a major World War II battle and an incredibly popular Japanese beach resort destination, many international travelers know little about the country's southernmost prefecture.
Which is where we come in, starting with a little geography lesson.
Where is Okinawa?
Okinawa has an area of 1,200 square kilometers and is made up of a few dozen small islands in the southern half of the Nansei Shoto island chain, which stretches over 1,000 kilometers from Japan's Kyushu island to Taiwan.
Sounds isolated from the rest of the Japan? It is. And that's why Japanese and those in the know adore it.
Sitting about 640 kilometers (400 miles) south of Japan's Kyushu island, Okinawa's main appeal for travelers is that its two dozen or so islands are ringed with crystal-blue tropical waters and white sand beaches.
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