Syria conflict: Russia violation of Turkish airspace 'no accident'
Nato says Russia's violation of Turkish airspace over the weekend "does not look like an accident".
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also said Russia had not provided "any real explanation" for two violations, which he called "unacceptable".
Russia has said the first violation lasted just a few seconds and was due to poor weather. It says it is looking into claims of a second violation.
Russia launched an air campaign in Syria last Wednesday.
Justice Department trials system to count killings by US law enforcement
Attorney general announces pilot open-source program to track police-involved deaths paralleling methodology used by the Guardian’s The Counted project
The US government is trialling a new open-source system to count killings by police around the country, in the most comprehensive official effort so far to accurately record the number of deaths at the hands of American law enforcement.
The pilot program was announced by the US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, on Monday and follows concerted calls from campaigners and lawmakers for better official data on police killings, after a nationwide debate about race and policing was sparked by protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
In anticipation of the launch, further details of the Department of Justice program were shared with the Guardian, which publishes The Counted, a crowdsourced investigative project that attempts to track all those killed by US law enforcement in 2015. The program is understood to be already active, with a view to full implementation at the start of 2016.
European court rules 'Safe Harbour' treaty that saw Facebook hand over user data to US is invalid, after challenge by student
An Austrian privacy campaigner called Max Schrems might have brought an end to one of the most important arrangements for US spying
The European Court of Justice may have put an end to a deal that allowed Facebook to share data on its users with US spy officials.
Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems has challenged the Safe Harbour treaty in his fight to expose what information Facebook gave to American intelligence agencies.
The court found that legislation allowing the authorities access to the content of electronic communications compromised the fundamental right to respect for private life.
The judgment said: "The court declares the Safe Harbour decision invalid."
Filipino deja vu as Ferdinand Marcos jnr announces candidacy
Lindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
The son of the late Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos has announced he will run for vice-president at next year's elections amid concerns the political succession could derail one of Asia's fastest-growing economies.
Ferdinand Marcos jnr, 58, said he has decided to put his future "in the hands of the Filipino people" despite billions of dollars looted by his father before he fled the country in 1986 never having been recovered.
Modest estimates put Marcos snr's purloined wealth at about $US10 billion ($14 billion), less than half of which has been located by asset-recovery investigators.
The disgraced ruler who died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 was reviled by many Filipinos, including thousands of political opponents jailed under his repressive regime.Reviving Shinto: Prime Minister Abe tends special place in Japan's soul (+video)
Conservatives seek to expand the role of Japan's indigenous faith in public life. But critics warn that could feed a simmering nationalism.
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s deep adoration for the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, is no secret. He visits every New Year and reportedly even postponed a cabinet meeting in 2013 to attend a ceremony on its hallowed ground.
So when Mr. Abe announced this summer that the 2016 summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations would be held in the nearby resort city of Shima, Satoru Otowa wasn’t surprised.
“I believe it has something to do with his Shinto beliefs,” Mr. Otowa, a spokesman for the shrine, said while leading a tour there in August. “When the prime minister visited in January, everyone saw how passionately he prayed.”
Denmark moves to tighten citizenship requirements
Those wanting to become Danes will face stricter conditions in terms of language skills and financial self-reliance.
06 Oct 2015 00:36 GMT
Politicians in Denmark have agreed to make it more difficult to acquire citizenship in the country.
The Northern European country last month cut benefits for asylum seekers in another move to deter an influx of refugees and economic migrants.
"Acquiring Danish citizenship is something very special, and therefore it is also reasonable that we now raise the bar for when a person can call themselves a Danish citizen," Integration Minister Inger Stojberg said in a statement on Monday.
Those wanting to become Danish nationals will have to meet tougher requirements on language skills, and be financially self-sufficient for four years and six months of the past five years, up from the current two years and six months.
Applicants will also have to score better on a test about Denmark, answering correctly on at least 32 of 40 questions. The questions cover Danish current affairs, Danish history and Danish society.
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