Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners told to turn off device
South Korean tech giant Samsung has urged owners of the Galaxy Note 7 to turn off its high-end smartphone while it investigates new reports of the device catching fire.
The firm also said it would stop all sales of the phone.
Samsung recalled 2.5 million phones in September after complaints of exploding batteries, and later insisted that all replaced devices were safe.
But there are now reports that even those phones were catching fire.
A man in Kentucky said he woke up to a bedroom full of smoke from a replaced Note 7, days after a domestic flight in the US was evacuated after a new device started emitting smoke in the cabin.
"Because consumers' safety remains our top priority, Samsung will ask all carrier and retail partners globally to stop sales and exchanges of the Galaxy Note 7 while the investigation is taking place," the company said.
Venezuela on the brink: a journey through a country in crisis
The oil-rich South American nation should be prospering. Instead it stands on the edge of an economic and humanitarian abyss
by Jonathan Watts
The proud face of revolutionary hero Simón Bolívar gazes from a stack of bank notes dumped in a grubby box on the floor of a supermarket that doubles as a foreign exchange bureau in a small border town in the Amazon.
No disrespect is intended: there is simply not enough space in the till for the thick wads of cash. Nor is it practical to treat the 100 bolivar bills with more care: they are worth barely more than the paper napkins stacked rather more attentively on the shelves.
This, however, is Venezuela’s highest denomination, a note that once represented Latin America’s most powerful petro economy – but is now a near valueless symbol for one of the most dramatic reverses in a country’s fortunes
Isis recruiting violent criminals and gang members across Europe in dangerous new ‘crime-terror nexus’
Exclusive: More than half of European jihadis have criminal histories as Isis offers ‘redemption’
“Sometimes people with the worst pasts create the best futures,” reads the slogan, emblazoned on an image of a masked fighter wielding a Kalashnikov, walking into blinding light.
The poster was shared on Facebook by Rayat al-Tawheed, a group of British Isis fighters from London calling themselves the “Banner of God”.
Their target is young men looking for redemption from crime, drugs or gangs, willing to save their souls by waging jihad for the so-called Islamic State.
The Syrian heroes of Leipzig
For days police special forces had been hunting Jaber A. But in the end he was arrested by three Syrians – who have now become the heroes of their neighborhood. Fabian von der Mark reports.
Jihad can mean holy war. But it's also the name of the Syrian man from Leipzig, who is now standing on a street corner in a tracksuit top and baseball cap. During the night he heard a helicopter, the next morning he heard the news: Syrians had handed over the wanted terrorist suspect Jaber A.
"Then I knew it was going to be a good day," Jihad Darwech said.
Syrians guarding Germany's most wanted man
Jihad lives only a few meters away from the house in which Germany's most wanted man was arrested at one o'clock in the morning. The police didn't encounter much resistance: at the time, Jaber A. was bound and lying in an apartment on the fourth floor of a high-rise building. He was guarded by Syrians.
Bangladesh’s ‘Wedding buster’ takes on illegal child marriage
Latest update : 2016-10-11
As the UN marks the International Day of the Girl Child on Tuesday, activist Radha Rani Sarker is meeting with European leaders to highlight the plight of girls in her native Bangladesh, where 73% are illegally married off while still in childhood.
Radha, 21, met French Women’s Rights Minister Laurence Rossignol and reporters in Paris on Monday as part of a tour that will also take her to Brussels. With her baby face and sparkling black eyes, she did not appear to be intimidated in the presence of the minister and her entourage, telling the story of her life with disarming calmness.
She added sugar to her coffee as she recalled how she fled a marriage arranged by a group of uncles, and backtracked to her father’s untimely death as she worked through a plate of grapes and dates. She was in no hurry, giving everyone in the room the impression that the meeting was being conducted on her terms and on her timeline.
Hurricane Matthew: '1.4 million need help in Haiti'
The devastating hurricane wiped some towns and villages off the map, the UN chief said, after pledging $120m in aid.
Haiti faces a crisis that requires a "massive response" from the international community, the United Nations has said, with at least 1.4 million people needing emergency aid after Hurricane Matthew.
The storm killed almost 1,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean nation, with that toll likely to rise as rescue workers reach previously inaccessible areas.
Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, last week leveled homes, fouled water sources and killed livestock, leaving victims pleading for help to arrive quickly.
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