Thai king death: Nation mourns loss of revered royal
The people of Thailand are mourning the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, who died on Thursday aged 88.
Thousands clad in black are lining the streets of Bangkok for the king's funeral procession, as his body is moved to a temple in the Grand Palace.
The government has declared a year-long official mourning period.
Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is expected be the new monarch, but has asked for a delay in succession.
The cabinet has declared Friday a government holiday, and flags are to fly at half-mast for the next 30 days.
People have been asked to wear black, and avoid "joyful events" during this period. Cinema screenings, concerts and sports events have been cancelled or postponed.
Philippine killers unmasked as policemen, according to authorities
A senior inspector praised by the national police chief has been charged, along with another officer, with murdering an anti-crime campaigner
Two Philippine police officers are to be charged with murder after being unmasked as motorcycle-riding hitmen who shot dead a local woman, authorities said Thursday.
The policemen were wounded and arrested after a shootout with local police last weekend as they fled the scene of the crime in the central island of Mindoro, an official police report said.
Loaded handguns, a wig, and a face mask were among items recovered from inspector Markson Almeranez and senior inspector Magdaleno Pimentel, it added.UK and US both consider military options amid warnings Russia will 'flatten' Aleppo
Labour MP Mike Gapes says: 'If Putin does to Aleppo what he did to Grozny, then they are going to flatten it'
Britain and the United States are both considering deeper involvement in the Syrian civil war – including looking at more military options – amid warnings that Russia is gong to "flatten" the city of Aleppo.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson argued it was right that military options were looked at again, because he said the Russian campaign had “pulverised” neighbourhoods.
US President Barack Obama was also expected to meet key advisors on Friday to weigh up military action, including direct air strikes on Assad regime bases.
How a pizza business is helping Argentineans with Down Syndrome
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The concept is simple and hard not to like: if you place an order, the employees of “Los Perejiles” will come to your home or office and make you pizza. But this company that was launched two months ago in Buenos Aires is about much more than just pizza parties. Its real aim to to help empower its staff, all of whom are young people with Down Syndrome.
Mateo Kawaguchi, Leandro López Padros, Franco Noseda and Mauricio Rolden (aged 22, 24, 19, and 21 respectively), organised their first pizza party on July 9. On that inaugural day, they made enough pizza to feed the 50 guests at a birthday party. Since then, they’ve organised more than 30 similar events in Buenos Aires and in San Isidro, a suburb of the Argentine capital.
All four men have Down Syndrome. People with this genetic disorder, which is caused by a chromosome irregularity, have mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.
Virtual reality tells Indigenous story in London as bones set to return to Australia
London: As old, stolen bodies return to Australia, Britain is being repaid in virtual reality.
In a neat coincidence this week, London's film festival was treated to a cutting-edge, VR demonstration of the story-telling-power of Indigenous culture – while across town British museums handed over Australian Aboriginal ancestral remains for reburial in their home country.
At the film festival, Lynette Wallworth presented Collisions, a 15-minute virtual-reality journey to the Pilbara homeland of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan – whose first contact with western culture was witnessing an atomic test in the desert.Why FIFA is getting involved in the West Bank conflict
The Palestinian Football Association has asked FIFA to relocate or bar six West Bank settlement teams, but its Israeli counterpart says that such a move would be mixing politics and sports.
The Israeli and Palestinian Football Associations are at odds over whether six West Bank settlement teams should be banned from competition.
And the Palestinians want FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) to resolve the dispute, either by relocating the teams or barring them from competing in the Israeli soccer league.
The Palestinians have urged the international soccer federation to recognize that the six Israeli clubs – located in the West Bank settlements of Ariel, Givat Ze’ev, Oranit, Ma’aleh Adumim and Tomer – play on fields the Palestinian Authority claims as its territory.
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