EgyptAir flight: Search intensifies for missing plane
A massive search is continuing for a second day for an EgyptAir plane that disappeared over the Mediterranean.
Greek, Egyptian, French and UK military units are taking part in the operation near Greece's Karpathos island.
Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished early on Thursday.
Greece said radar showed the Airbus A320 had made two sharp turns and dropped more than 25,000ft (7,620m) before plunging into the sea.
Egypt says the plane was more likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than a technical fault.
But, more than 24 hours since the plane dropped off radars, no group has said it was behind its disappearance.
Oklahoma officials backed use of wrong drug in botched execution – grand jury
Governor’s top counsel urged prison to go forward with planned death despite receiving the wrong drug, telling deputy attorney general to ‘Google it’
The top lawyer for Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin urged prison officials to go forward with a planned execution even though they received the wrong drug, telling a deputy attorney general to “Google it” to confirm it could be used, a grand jury said in a report Thursday.
The grand jury faulted many officials for three botched execution attempts but issued no indictments after its months-long investigation. But the panel noted that Fallin’s general counsel, Steve Mullins, advocated for the use of potassium acetate in the 30 September execution of Richard Glossip, even though the state’s lethal injection protocol calls for potassium chloride, which stops the heart. Fallin later issued a last-minute stay for Glossip, who remains on death row.
Israel defence minister resigns because he doesn't trust Benjamin Netanyahu
The move comes after Israel's PM apparently proposed replacing him as part of a move to expand the coalition government
Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has announced his resignation, due to a lack of "trust" in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The move comes after Netanyahu apparently proposed replacing him as part of a move to expand the coalition government.
Political sources say the PM offered ultra-nationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman the defence portfolio instead.
Lieberman, 57, is one of the country's most polarising politicians. Over three decades, he has at times been Netanyahu's closest ally and other times a fierce rival.
How an Iranian woman snuck into a football stadium only open to men
OBSERVERS
A young Iranian woman has become a star among fans of the Persepolis football team after she snuck into a match, which women are forbidden to attend. She took to social media to show how she disguised herself as a man to get in.
A 22-year-old Iranian woman, who goes by “Shakiba” on Instagram, swore to herself that she’d attend a match played by her favourite team, the Tehran Persepolis football club, even though women have been banned from attending men’s games since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She achieved her goal on May 13, when she disguised herself as a man and slipped into the stadium alongside roughly 95,000 spectators.
After her adventure, she published a video of herself in the stadium where she says, “I said I’d go to the stadium and now I’ve done it!”
A 22-year-old Iranian woman, who goes by “Shakiba” on Instagram, swore to herself that she’d attend a match played by her favourite team, the Tehran Persepolis football club, even though women have been banned from attending men’s games since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She achieved her goal on May 13, when she disguised herself as a man and slipped into the stadium alongside roughly 95,000 spectators.
After her adventure, she published a video of herself in the stadium where she says, “I said I’d go to the stadium and now I’ve done it!”
Philippines mayor Tomas Osmena offers bounty for each criminal killed
Lindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Bangkok: Inspired by the Philippines' tough-talking president-elect Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of one of the country's largest cities is offering a bounty for each criminal killed.
Tomas Osmena, mayor of central Cebu City, declared he does not care if the bounty encourages vigilantism in the island-nation where crime has doubled in recent years.
"I will not compromise the safety of my people. I will defend them. I don't care who gets in the way," Mr Osmena said after paying the equivalent of US$1080 ($1490) to a policeman who shot and wounded two alleged fleeing robbers.
Mr Osmena, the grandson of a former Philippine president, told reporters that to receive the bounty a criminal should be dead, sending a warning to others.
As Germany's far right rises, so does its radical left
MODELS OF THOUGHT
In Leipzig's Connewitz neighborhood, hundreds of left-wing radicals try to live outside Germany's system, butting heads with both police and far-right extremists.
LEIPZIG, GERMANY — Thomas Noack tells anybody that will listen that Connewitz, his neighborhood in this half-million-resident city, is a charming place with lots of ordinary taxpayers, traditional bakeries and butchers, and even a famous Catholic hospital.
But Mr. Noack's vocal enthusiasm for his native home is rooted partially in his frustration with Connewitz's less conventional residents: far-left radicals, known as "autonomists," opposed to the government.
Connewitz is an alternative society, a neighborhood that may be home to many ordinary Leipzigers but whose nationwide reputation is dominated by its many far-left residents. The latter have for years tried to turn Connewitz into an enclave free of government intervention. They have occupied buildings about to be taken over by developers, attacked the city’s administrative office in the neighborhood, and even assaulted its new police station.
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