Planned Parenthood: Three die in shooting at Colorado clinic
A shooting at a family planning clinic in Colorado Springs has left two civilians and a police officer dead, with the suspected gunman under arrest.
Nine other people were injured during the standoff at the Planned Parenthood clinic, which lasted five hours before the suspect surrendered.
A number of people were trapped inside the building as shots were exchanged.
The motive remains unclear. The Planned Parenthood group has drawn anti-abortion protests in the past.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as Robert Lewis Dear, from North Carolina. No other details were given.
"I want to convey to the loved ones of the victims, this is a terrible, terrible tragedy that occurred here in Colorado Springs today," Mayor John Suthers told a news conference.
"Obviously, we lost two civilian victims. We mourn the loss of a very brave police officer."
Beijing residents told to stay inside as smog levels soar
Air pollution in the Chinese capital has reached more than 15 times the safe level as smog engulfs large parts of the country
Beijing’s residents have been advised to stay indoors after air pollution in the Chinese capital reached hazardous levels.
The warning comes as the governments of more than 190 nations gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change.
China, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, is suffering from serious air pollution, largely attributed to smog from coal-fired power plants.
The onset of winter and the need for more heating of homes means the problem has intensified in the capital, which has an estimated population of 20 million.
At noon on Saturday, the US embassy in Beijing reported the level of the poisonous, tiny particles of PM2.5 at 391 micrograms per cubic metre.
Paris climate change talks: Activists placed under house arrest by French authorities using emergency laws
Thousands of climate campaigners have vowed to defy the blanket ban on demonstrations
At least 24 climate change activists have been put under house arrest by French police.
They are accused of defying a ban on organising protests during next week's 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Three people have been placed under house arrest in Rens, two in Paris, two in Rouen and one in Lyons, according to a campaigns website collating information about police actions against activists.
They are only allowed to leave their houses three times a day to sign a post office register verifying their whereabouts.
Legal advisors to the activists told The Guardian warrants were issued under the country's state of emergency laws, enacted after the terrorist attacks which murdered 130 people.
Japan to resume Antarctic whaling under 'revised plan'
Japan has announced plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic next year for what it says are research purposes. It suspended its whale hunt last year for a season after the top UN court ruled it should stop.
Japan defended its plan to resume whaling in the Antarctic Ocean by the end of March next year, saying it would take place under a plan that was "scientifically reasonable."
In its notification to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Friday, the Japanese Fisheries Agency said whale hunters would operate according to a "revised plan" that envisaged cutting annual minke whale catches by two-thirds to 333.
The move, which is likely to provoke an international outcry, goes against a ruling by the International Court of Justice in March last year that said Japan's "scientific" whaling activities in the Antarctic were a cover for a commercial hunt and ordered them to stop. Japan still sent whaling ships to the Southern Ocean in the 2014/2015 season, but they returned with no catch.
Heat is on Bollywood's Muslims
November 28, 2015 - 11:17AMAmrit Dhillon
New Delhi: Sitting in his saffron coloured office next to the grandiose Birla temple, a landmark in the capital, Chandra Kaushik is seething. President of the Hindu Mahasabha, the oldest Hindu nationalist party in the country, he had motivated the angry young men who have been staging protests outside the home of Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan this week.
Outraged at Khan's remarks, Kaushik galvanised the young men and ordered them to protest. Now he wants an apology from Khan. Like many conservative Hindus, he is indignant because Khan, a Muslim, said in an interview on Monday that the growing mood of intolerance in India had made his wife, Kiran Rao (who is Hindu) fear for their son and wonder whether the family should leave India.
The comment lit a firestorm that has blazed all week. On social media, on television, in the papers and on Twitter, Indians were divided between those who supported Khan because they believe that the minorities, especially Muslims, are under threat from the Hindu nationalism of the Narendra Modi government and those who flayed him for attacking the nation on specious grounds.Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map
Updated by German Lopez and Soo Oh
In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then, there have been at least 1,029 mass shootings, with shooters killing at least 1,300 people and wounding 3,699 more.
The counts come from the Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowdsourced database that tracks shootings since 2013 in which four or more people were shot. As with any crowdsourced database, it’s likely missing some shootings, and some of the shootings are missing details.
Vox’s Soo Oh created an interactive map with data from the Mass Shooting Tracker. It shows the mass shootings tracked in the database that have been verified with news reports since the Sandy Hook shooting:
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