Istanbul Besiktas Turkey: Stadium blasts kill 29 people
A twin bomb attack on police officers outside a football stadium in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, has killed 29 people and injured 166.
A car bomb hit a police vehicle and a suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest in quick succession late on Saturday.
The blasts occurred near the stadium of top-division team Besiktas, two hours after a match. Ten arrests were made.
The government says initial findings point towards Kurdish militants, who have targeted police in the past.
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told CNN Turk news channel that "arrows point" to the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).
Two of those killed were civilians and the rest were police officers. Photographs posted on Instagram after the explosion showed helmets strewn on a road and damaged vehicles.
‘Who buys fish with a credit card here?’ Traders scoff at Goa’s bid to ditch cash
With the state about to be a test bed for India’s drive to digital payments, alarm bells are ringing in the city of Panjim
It’s 11 o’clock, and Laxman Chauhan still hasn’t sold any fish. His stall in the central market in the west Indian city of Panjim has been open for three hours, but none of his usual clients have come today. He checks his watch, and then takes a walk to see if other vendors have had any customers. “Sold anything yet?” he asks Ramila Pujjar, who has set her stall up with a glistening display of the morning’s catch. She hasn’t either.
“I’m losing 2,000-3,000 rupees (£23-£35) a day,” says Chauhan. “I’m throwing fish away every day.”
The low footfall at Panjim’s fish market is unusual; fish is a staple in Goan cuisine but, for the past month, since the prime minister, Narendra Modi, abolished the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, business has suffered. “I’m losing money because of the government,” says Pujjar. “The government only takes care of the rich, the poor will always be poor.”
Palmyra: Isis pulls out of ancient city after heavy Russian bombing
Isis has withdrawn its troops from Palmyra in the face of heavy Russian air strikes, a monitoring group said, one day after it reentered the ancient city.
The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that it had assisted the Syrian army in repelling all Isis attacks on Palmyra overnight.
Russian jets carried out 64 air strikes during the operation to defend the ancient city, killing more than 300 militants, the ministry said.
Shell GameRonaldo, Mourinho and the Paper Trail to the Caribbean
They are at the pinnacle of the sport, but Cristiano Ronaldo and José Mourinho have also proven to be magicians off the pitch as well -- when it comes to their dealings with tax authorities. They both used shell companies in the Caribbean to collect their marketing earnings. By SPIEGEL Staff
Football's Dark Side
What would happen if people found out how much teams really pay their professional players, calculated precisely down to the last euro and cent? And what would happen if people knew the size of the commissions earned by agents with each transfer or contract extension? If people were to start to question whether their football heroes are as clean as their marketers like to make them out to be? If you could peer behind the glossy facade of global football and take a closer look at the contracts, bank accounts and the exchange of letters between pro players and their advisers? The whistleblowing platform Football Leaks makes all this possible. They provided DER SPIEGEL with access to around 18.6 million documents -- the biggest leak in the history of professional sports. Together with the investigative network EIC and additional partners, we have explored the inner workings of the multi-billion-euro football business. The first installment in the series delves into the ethics of taxation and the tax tricks used by stars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Özil.
Venezuelan president called a 'Grinch' after government toy seizure
Updated 0408 GMT (1208 HKT) December 11, 2016
Venezuelan officials have confiscated nearly 5 million toys from a toy distributor, accusing the company of planning to sell them at inflated prices during the Christmas season.
Critics say the consumer protection agency, which targeted the toy warehouse this week, has become "the Grinch that stole Christmas" because many families won't be able to buy the confiscated toys for the holiday.
Agency head William Contreras disputed that, saying executives at toy distributor Kreisel-Venezuela, the largest of its kind in the country, "don't care about our children's right to have a merry Christmas."
Tokyo breaks ground on new 2020 Olympic National Stadium
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Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for a $1.5 billion National Stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike and other dignitaries launched the construction at the site of the demolished National Stadium, which was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, by putting their hands on a glass sphere that rotated through pastels of the colors of the Olympic logo.
The ceremony ended with a video replete with computer graphics showing how the stadium is expected to look and function once completed by November 2019.
Work on the stadium in the center of the city fell behind schedule because the government abandoned the original design amid spiraling costs and complaints over its scale and appearance.
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