Brexit: 'Half' of Labour top team set to resign
Up to half of the shadow cabinet is set to resign in a bid to oust Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, it is understood.
It comes after shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn was sacked overnight after telling Mr Corbyn he had "lost confidence" in his leadership.
Hours later, shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander said she would resign.
Mr Corbyn faces a vote of no confidence over claims he was "lacklustre" during the EU referendum - but sources close to Mr Corbyn said he would stand again.
The sources said they were confident that Mr Corbyn would automatically be on the ballot paper in the event of a leadership contest - but different Labour sources disagreed about whether that would be the case.
Meanwhile, a shadow cabinet member told the BBC: "I imagine that there'll be a leadership election and Jeremy will win. But this is a total distraction."
The man accused of starting the 2011 riots – and what he did next
Marcus Knox-Hooke was at the heart of the 2011 riots sparked by the death of his friend Mark Duggan in a police shooting. A new documentary examines what happened and follows him as he struggles to rebuild his lifeDid you start the Tottenham riots? Marcus Knox-Hooke thinks about this for a moment. “I suppose. You could say so. But if they hadn’t shot Mark, there would have been no riots.” He pauses. And then: “It’s not something I’m proud of.” Mark was Mark Duggan, the 29-year-old who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011 – the spark that lit the flame of the Tottenham riots, which became the London riots and then the 2011 British riots as the violence spread first around the capital and then to cities across the country. Five people ended up dead and more than £200m of damage was done to businesses and property. And when the police studied the CCTV footage and pieced together the sequence of events, they alleged that it ultimately led all the way back to one man: Marcus Knox-Hooke. They accused him of instigating the first act of violence – violence that then spread nationwide – and charged him with eight counts of violent disorder, burglary and robbery. “It’s not something I’m proud of,” he repeats. The accusation of starting the riot was eventually dropped – though he was found guilty of four other charges, including burglary and robbery, and sentenced to 32 months in jail – but he doesn’t deny it. “There were a lot of innocent lives that got lost. A lot of innocent businesses got harmed. A lot of people’s homes got destroyed. I’d like to say sorry. It wasn’t my intention, you hear me? I had no idea it was going to escalate in such a way.”
Fallujah declared 'fully liberated' from Isis by senior Iraqi army commander
Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahad al-Saadi says troops have entered the last neighbourhood controlled by the jihadis
Fallujah has been declared "fully liberated" from Isis by the Iraqi army commander leading the operation against the jihadis.
The head of the counterterrorism forces in the operation, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahad al-Saadi said on Sunday that his troops had entered the northwestern al-Julan neighbourhood, which was the final area of the city under Isis control.
Lt. Gen. al-Saadi said the operation, which began in late May, "is done and the city is fully liberated".
Fallujah, just 30 miles west of Baghdad, has been under Isis control since January 2014.
It is the latest in a series of key cities to fall to Iraqi forces as they push the group back.
Why Beijing (and 45 other cities in China) are sinking
Beijing sinking 11 cm: Major Chinese cities are sinking. What lessons do the world's other sinking cities have for China?
China’s cities are sinking, according to a new scientific study published this month in the journal Remote Sensing.
According to the Chinese government, 46 cities across China are sinking into the ground. In the last decade alone, Beijing has sunk 14 inches. The city continues to sink at a rate of nearly 11 centimeters per year.
The study, conducted by an international team of seven scientists and engineers is based on InSAR radar technology, which monitors land elevation changes.
This sinking phenomenon, called subsidence, has a number of causes. The rapid construction of massive buildings, roads, and other infrastructure projects has put a lot a weight on the ground.Can foreign media pressure force changes in Japan?
BY PHILIP BRASOR
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara’s first-person “biography” of late Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, “Tensai” (“Genius”), remains atop best-seller lists. It is interesting to note that when Tanaka was alive Ishihara berated him as a crude opportunist. The years have obviously tempered his view, or perhaps Ishihara’s own political career helped him appreciate how an uneducated hick without connections could become the most powerful man in Japan.
The incident that caused Tanaka’s downfall, the 1970s Lockheed bribery scandal, received greater coverage overseas than it did in Japan, and one of Ishihara’s favorite themes as a public figure has been how Japan should resist foreign pressure and assert its position as a world power. Takashi Tachibana was the journalist most instrumental in exposing Tanaka’s money politics, but it was foreign press attention that made the former prime minister’s actions impossible to ignore — even in Japan.
US: Refugees set up orchestra in New York
Newly created Refugee Orchestra Project seeks to highlight the role refugees play in American culture and society.
Gabriel Elizondo
New York - After fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, a number of musicians have come together to set up an orchestra in New York.
The Refugee Orchestra Project includes refugees from Syria to Russia who hope to communicate their experience through music, raise funds for those in need, and highlight the importance that refugees play in American culture and society.
Lubana al-Quntar is the first Syrian opera singer to obtain international recognition.
"Seeing the struggle of my people everyday, it means so much to me to sing for them," said Quntar.
The orchestra also performs works by composers who were refugees. A recent concert was held on World Refugee Day in Brooklyn.
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