Plastic Island
How our throwaway culture is turning paradise into a graveyard
By Nick Paton Walsh, Ingrid Formanek, Jackson Loo and Mark Phillips
Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island.
Midway Atoll is just about the furthest piece of land from civilization and its constant engine whir, data and jostle.
Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm and humility -- until you look down at your feet.
On the beach lies a motorcycle helmet, a mannequin's head, an umbrella handle, and a flip-flop. They didn't fall from a plane or off a ship, and there aren't any civilians living here who could have left them behind.
Inside Italy’s ultras: the dangerous fans who control the game
When a key figure in a powerful ‘ultra’ group killed himself in July, police suspected the mafia was using the ultras to get into the game
by Tobias Jones
Thursday 1 December 2016 06.00 GMT
On 7 July this year, Raffaello Bucci’s body was found at the bottom of the so-called “viaduct of suicides”. Just a day before, he had been interviewed by police investigating links between football and organised crime. The viaduct is an impressive structure connecting Turin to Cuneo, a city 100km to the south, and south-eastern France. The arches carrying the dual-carriageway over the Stura di Demonte river are 45 metres high. It was on this same spot that Edoardo, only son of Gianni Agnelli (the late owner of Fiat and Juventus), ended his life in 2000.
Bucci’s life, as well as his death, linked him to the Agnelli family. Although he grew up in San Severo, a town 850km to the south of Turin, Bucci was – like many southerners who move to the north – a hardcore Juventus supporter. He had grown up watching the greats of the “old lady” of Italian football: Platini, Baggio, Ravanelli, Vialli, Del Piero. Juventus was, according to one of his oldest friends, “an obsession”.
Sudanese President accused of genocide and war crimes praises Donald Trump
Mr Trump 'focuses on the interests of the American citizen, [not] democracy, human rights and transparency'
Sudan’s long-serving and authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir has praised the US President-elect Donald Trump, celebrating his election victory and saying he will be “much easier” to work with than previous American leaders.
Mr Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court, and his country is subject to international sanctions for the government’s role in violence in western Darfur.
In an interview with the Emirati daily al-Khaleej, he accused Mr Trump’s predecessors of being “double-faced people”.
Colombia's congress ratifies FARC peace deal
Latest update : 2016-12-01
After five decades of war, more than four years of negotiations and two signing ceremonies, Colombia's congress late Wednesday formally ratified a peace agreement allowing leftist rebels to enter politics.
The 310-page revised accord was approved unanimously by the lower house, which voted a day after the Senate approved the same text 75-0 following a protest walkout by the opposition led by former President Alvaro Uribe.
The accord introduces some 50 changes intended to assuage critics who led a campaign that saw Colombians narrowly reject the original accord in a referendum last month. President Juan Manuel Santos has said there won't be a second referendum.
Fake news report on Muslim hardliner behind Jakarta rally linked to Australia, US-hosted website
An incendiary fake news report distributed via Australia and the US has added fuel to Indonesian jitters ahead of another huge demonstration on Friday calling for Jakarta's governor to be jailed.
The report claimed a Muslim hardliner behind the planned mass protests across the country was beaten up by army troops at his party's headquarters. It has been traced to websites hosted in Australia and the US.
For weeks demonstrators have been calling for Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, widely known as Ahok, to be jailed, with the police chief last week warning some groups had a "hidden agenda" to seize control of parliament during Friday's rally. Ahok is Christian and a member of the ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia.Martin Shkreli: Australian boys recreate life-saving drug
The man who sparked outrage last year by hiking the price of a life-saving drug may have met his match in some Australian schoolboys.
US executive Martin Shkreli became a symbol of greed when he raised the price of a tablet of Daraprim from $13.50 (£11) to $750.
Now, Sydney school students have recreated the drug's key ingredient for just $20.
Daraprim is an anti-parasitic drug used by malaria and Aids patients.
The Sydney Grammar boys, all 17, synthesised the active ingredient, pyrimethamine, in their school science laboratory.
"It wasn't terribly hard but that's really the point, I think, because we're high school students," one boy, Charles Jameson, told the BBC.
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