Muhammad Ali: 'World invited' to Louisville funeral
A huge procession and funeral will be held for Muhammad Ali on Friday to "allow anyone that is there from the world to say goodbye", his family says.
The funeral will be in Ali's home city of Louisville, Kentucky. Ex-President Bill Clinton will deliver a eulogy.
Comedian Billy Crystal and sports journalist Bryant Gumbel are also expected to speak.
The boxing legend, 74, died on Friday of "septic shock due to unspecified natural causes".
A private family service will be held on Thursday.
The three-time world heavyweight champion, and one of the world's greatest sporting figures, died in Phoenix, Arizona, and his body will be flown to Kentucky in the next two days.
He will be buried at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, the city of his birth in 1942.
The fighter had been suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.
Jewish and Arab pupils talk of unity, but Israel has never been so divided
The voices of nationalism and separation are growing louder as rightwing populism dominates and tensions continue to escalatePeter Beaumont in Jerusalem
The boys file in first: noisy Jewish teenagers in kippahs, students at Jerusalem’s Himmelfarb high school. The girls come next, most wearing headscarves – Israeli Arabs from the Ort school for girls in Lod.
There is a call for quiet and the final group of visitors files in to sit on the platform – Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, and the education minister, Naftali Bennett.
The first question addressed to the dignitaries comes from 16-year-old Bara’a Isa, one of the Ort school girls. “Is it possible,” she stands to ask, “that you can add or change something of the national symbols of the state so we can identify with them. So we can feel part of society?
Norway to 'completely ban all petrol powered cars by 2025'
'What an amazingly awesome country', Elon Musk tweeted in response to the plan
Norway will ban the sale of all fossil fuel-based cars in the next decade, continuing its trend towards becoming one of the most ecologically progressive countries on the planet, according to reports.
Politicians from both sides of the political spectrum have reportedly reached some concrete conclusions about 100 per cent of Norwegian cars running on green energy by 2025.
According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, "FRP will remove all gasoline cars", a headline which makes reference to the populist right-wing Framstegspartiet, or Progress Party.
The Law of Revenge: Deadly Hatred among Anti-IS Alliance in Iraq
By Christoph ReuterThe US is fighting together with an alliance of rival groups to defeat IS in Iraq. Deadly violence in a city north of Baghdad shows, however, that once the Islamists are defeated, erstwhile allies may turn their weapons on each other.
It was halftime of the match between Real Madrid and Manchester City when the young boy was burned alive. Abdullah Fakr was 12 years old and loved football. A Kurdish sixth-grader, Fakr and his family had tuned into the Champions League semifinal on the evening of April 26 along with many others in the Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmatu.
For the last three nights, militias controlling opposing halves of the city had once again been shooting at each other. "But they stayed on the frontlines," says Abdullah's father, as though it was some distant warzone and not right in the center of their small city.
On southwestern fringe, China's Silk Road ambitions face obstacles
By Brenda Goh and Simon Webb
For the southwestern city of Kunming, China's plan to extend a high-speed rail link 3,000 km (1,875 miles) south to Singapore is already a boon: pristine expressways, a gleaming station and something of a real estate boom, as young buyers crowd property showrooms.
In Laos, work has yet to start on what should be the first overseas leg of a rail line stretching throughout Southeast Asia. The country, one of the region's poorest, could struggle to finance even part of the $7 billion cost and has yet to agree financial terms with China.
From Laos, the railway would enter Thailand. But Beijing's negotiations have soured there as well, in part over financing, adding to a growing headache for China and highlighting the sort of problems Beijing may face as it develops its economic highways beyond Southeast Asia and across Asia under its "One Belt, One Road" project.
Nigeria seizes billions in looted cash and assets
Interior minister says more than $10bn confiscated in the past year's anti-corruption drive.
Nigeria has seized more than $10.3bn in looted cash and assets in the past year under President Muhammadu Buhari's anti-corruption campaign, the west African country's information minister said.
In addition, the government is expecting the repatriation of more than $330m stolen from the public treasury and stashed in banks abroad, Lai Mohammed said in a statement on Saturday. He said most of the money is in Switzerland.
Mohammed did not identify former and current officials accused of looting public funds, though the government had promised to publish them.
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