Charlotte shooting: Police release video and photo evidence
Updated 0321 GMT (1121 HKT) September 25, 2016
Videos released Saturday by the Charlotte police department of the fatal encounter between Keith Scott and officers do little to answer some of the most significant questions about the shooting.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney has said as much since the Tuesday shooting that sparked protests and brought nationwide media attention once again to the use of deadly force by law enforcement.
Authorities have said an African-American officer shot Scott, who was black, when he made a threatening move with a gun. Saturday, police released photos of a pistol and ankle holster recovered at the scene.
Nahed Hattar shot dead: Prominent Jordanian writer charged with offensive Facebook post killed
Local media reports he was shot three times in the head as he was about to stand trial
A Jordanian writer who was arrested for posting a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam has been shot dead.
Nahed Hattar was assassinated in front the Supreme Court in Amman with local media reporting he was shot three times in the head.
The shooter has reportedly been arrested by security forces.
Mr Hatter had turned himself in to authorities after the Jordanian Prime Minister, Hani Mulki, ordered an investigation into a cartoon he had shared on Facebook.War on DoctorsThe Deadly Business of War-Zone Medical Care
With governments bombing hospitals and militias attacking medical staff, the work of Doctors without Borders is in jeopardy. Rules to protect aid workers in war zones are increasingly being ignored.By Katrin Kuntz
Dr. Muhamed brought the baby girl into the world in the midst of a war zone in southern Syria. A few hours later, his hospital lay in ruins.
The baby's tiny head shimmered, she blinked her eyes and her first cry sounded light but strong. It was a difficult birth and the mother needed blood from the rare O-negative group. Dr. Muhamed issued a call for blood donors at his city's mosque -- and that was when the catastrophe began.
Their rotors pounding loudly, helicopters approached the hospital that evening and the first barrel bombs struck the operating room, injuring dozens of patients. The call for blood donations had led the Syrian regime to believe that a large number of enemy rebels was being treated in Muhamed's hospital.
Tens of thousands protest Polish rightwing government
Latest update : 2016-09-25
Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw Saturday to rally against moves by the rightwing Law and Justice government that they say undermine the rule of law.
Warsaw City Hall officials said up to 30,000 people took part in the demonstration organised by the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD).
The protest targeted reforms of the Constitutional Court that the populist PiS government pushed through soon after it swept to power late last year.
The changes to the top court's decision-making rules, which according to the opposition were intended to paralyse the institution, have notably alarmed the European Union and triggered a string of demonstrations across the country.
FAST: China's great space telescope begins operations
The size of about 30 football pitches, the $180m FAST telescope will explore farther and darker regions of space.
The world's largest radio telescope has began operating in southwestern China, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.
The mega telescope began working around noon, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, adding that it will explore space and search for signs of intelligent life.
The 1.2 billion yuan ($180 million) science mega-project is named after its huge dimensions: the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST.
North Korean defectors who became Chinese brides end silence
HYUNG-JIN KIM,Associated Press
North Korean defectors who became brides for rural Chinese men, they faced another excruciating choice when they suffered abuse: to flee to South Korea and leave their children. Women who've made that choice have lived with the guilt and shame for years, but some are breaking their silence and trying to get international help for their situation. What some of the women told The Associated Press about their experiences:
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KIM JUNGAH, 40, chose to be trafficked because she could no longer endure poverty and malnutrition in the North.
"I thought about killing myself many times but it wasn't easy to do it. For me, escaping from North Korea was the only way to survive," she said.
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