Barack Obama makes historic Hiroshima visit
Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima to become the first serving US president to visit the Japanese city since the 1945 nuclear bombing.
Mr Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit.
He said his visit was "a testament to how even the most painful of divides can be bridged". But he also says he will not be apologising for the attack.
At least 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, in what was the world's first nuclear bombing.
Two days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 74,000.
'Best of friends'
Television footage showed Mr Obama arriving and entering the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Inside the hunt for Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Intelligence officials have pieced together details of the recent movements of the world’s most wanted man
At the closest point they can reach to the Islamic State heartlands, the Kurdish Peshmerga can almost feel their enemy. Most days Isis fighters fire mortars or bullets at their frontline, 10 miles south of Sinjar, sometimes crawling through long grass for hours until they are close enough to shoot.
Several miles further south, some of Isis’s most senior leaders regularly gather in the grey concrete villages of the terror group’s northern vanguard, which for more than a decade had been the safest corners of Iraq for them to come and go. Moving among the nearby towns of Ba’ej and Billij, according to the Kurds watching from the ground, and intelligence officials keeping tabs from other vantage points, is the world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Australia asks to be removed from UN climate report
Australia's Department of Environment has come under criticism for omitting the Great Barrier Reef from a UNESCO climate change report. Climate scientists say officials have censored details about environmental threats.
The UN report sought to examine the impact of climate change on world heritage sites including Australia's Great Barrier Reef, New York's Statue of Liberty, Venice and Britain's Stonehenge.
But Australian officials objected to negative references about its tourist spots and demanded they be removed from the document, which was released on Thursday, including a whole chapter on the Reef.
Details about the Kakadu national park and the Tasmanian forests were also taken out.
"Recent experience in Australia had shown that negative commentary about the status of World Heritage properties impacted on tourism," the department said in an email statement.
A post-it wall denounces the femicide of a South Korean woman
There’s been widespread outcry about gender-based violence in South Korea after a young woman was killed in a brutal knife attack by a man who claimed that women were “belittling” him.
People posted hundreds of post-it notes and left chrysanthemums along a wall outside the metro station in the Gangnam neighbourhood of Seoul.
On May 17, 2016, in a building not far from the station, a 34-year-old man killed a 23-year-old woman in a brutal knife attack.
Police said the man did not know the victim, who was coming home after a night of karaoke with friends. After his arrest, the presumed murderer said that he killed the woman because he felt “ignored and belittled by women”.
Indonesia backs death penalty, chemical castration for child sex abuse
In light of what he calls Indonesia's child sex abuse 'crisis,' Indonesian President Joko Widodo issued an emergency decree allowing judges to mandate chemical castration as well as the death penalty.
In Indonesia, men found guilty of sex offenses against children can be chemically castrated or even put to death. Following what he calls a "crisis" of child sexual abuse throughout the country, President Joko Widodo issued this emergency decree.
"This regulation is intended to overcome the crisis caused by sexual violence against children," said President Widodo, more commonly known as Jokowi. "Sexual crimes against children are extraordinary crimes, because they threaten the lives of children."
Indicative of the crisis, a drunken group of 14 men and boys gang-raped and murdered a teenage girl walking home from school in Bengkulu province, Sumatra, in May. Women's rights activists called on the government to urgently respond to the issue of sexual violence. According to Indonesia's National Commission on Violence Against Women, around 35 women each day in the country fall victim to sexual violence.
This Chinese laundry detergent commercial is jaw-droppingly racist
Updated by German Lopez
On first thought, a laundry detergent commercial may not seem like a place for any message about race whatsoever. But as the blog Shanghaiist reports, a company in China apparently decided blatant racism was the right way to sell laundry detergent.
The ad, for Qiaobi laundry detergent, starts with a woman doing her laundry, when a paint-splattered black man appears. The woman signals him to her washing machine, then stuffs detergent in his mouth and pushes him into the machine. After the wash is done, a young, clean Chinese man rises out of the machine.
There's not much to explain here. This ad is blatantly racist. (And based on a similar Italian commercial.)
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