Japan: Father ' very sorry' as son found after week's disappearance
Updated 0705 GMT (1505 HKT) June 3, 2016
A missing 7-year-old boy was found unharmed after searchers spent nearly a week combing dense forest on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, officials said Friday.
He was discovered in a hut at a military exercise ground about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the spot where he was left alone at the roadside for a short time by his parents for being naughty.
Takayuki Tanooka, the father of the boy, said he was "very sorry" for what happened to his son and regretted the punishment.
"I told my son that I am sorry that I made him go through a very hard situation. He nodded to me," Tanooka said at a press conference after being reunited with his son.
Protesters attack Trump supporters after San Jose speech striking back at Clinton
Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, California, descended into violence on Thursday night, with supporters clashing with anti-Trump demonstrators in running-battles around the convention center where the candidate spoke.
Hundreds of protesters, many of them Latino students and a large contingent of union members, had gathered peacefully outside in the late afternoon, at times jeering at his supporters as they passed by.
But after the rally finished, the protests turned violent as anti-Trump demonstrators chased – and in some cases punched and attacked – departing Trump supporters, some of whom appeared intent on provoking and fighting as well, while other protesters tried to prevent the attacks. Eventually riot police were deployed to control the crowd.
Flooding in France, Germany expected to worsen
Forecasters have warned of more torrential downpours, which are likely to worsen flood hit areas of western Europe. At least seven people have been killed and thousands have been forced from their homes.
The German states of Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate, which have already been hit by four days of severe flooding, have been warned to expect further storms.
Water levels are expected to continue rising in both states, along with parts of North Rhine-Westphalia in the west, forecasters warned. Six people have died in flooding in Lower Bavaria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid tribute to those who had lost their lives.
"The federal government is grieving for those who received help too late," she said, adding that the response to the disaster showed how "we stick together in Germany."
How one Bangladeshi makes eco-friendly air conditioners from plastic bottles
What can you make with old plastic bottles? A vase? A flowerpot? … an air-conditioning unit? Believe it or not, you can. When inventor Ashis Paul came up with an innovative way to draw cool air into homes using plastic bottles, his whole company got on board to help teach people living in rural Bangledesh to do the same. Since February this year, they’ve helped people to install these units-- which don’t need electricity to function-- in more than 25,000 households in developing areas of the country.
“Most people live in tin huts… in the summer, it’s like being in sauna in the Sahara”
Jaiyyanul Huq is a creative director with the Grey Group, the advertising company that spearheaded this social project.
We are a flood-prone nation, so in rural Bangladesh, most people build their homes out of tin, instead of mud. About 70% of Bangladesh's population lives in these homes. But the problem with these tin huts is that they get unbearably hot in the summer, especially in northern and central Bangladesh. I’ve been in these huts. It’s like being in a sauna in the Sahara.
Legacy: Death among the flowers – The mass graves in Sinjar
Text and photography by Diego Ibarra Sanchez / MeMo
On the outskirts of Sinjar, Iraq, the early morning rays against the horizon draw a map of desolation through the devastated streets of the city. A river of destruction escorts the punished arteries of a town razed by war. Abandoned and demolished buildings, empty shops, destroyed schools and decomposed corpses lie as witnesses muzzled by the horror.
In August 2014, the Islamic State group attacked Sinjar Valley and its towns in the province of Nineveh in northern Iraq, and once the city was taken, a legacy of death, kidnapping and slavery was left behind. Selectively, members of the Islamic State group ransacked and vandalized the properties of the Yazidi, and planted and hid in their wake hundreds of explosive devices. The streets have turned into an ocean of rubble, and now the only souls roaming around the deserted streets are the peshmerga.
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