Trump picks Neil Gorsuch as nominee for Supreme Court
President Donald Trump has nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court.
If confirmed by the Senate, the 49-year-old would restore the court's conservative majority, lost with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
The Senate Democratic leader has said he has "very serious doubts" about Judge Gorsuch's nomination.
The court has the final legal word on many of the most sensitive US issues, from abortion to gender to gun control.
Mr Trump said Judge Gorsuch had a "superb intellect, an unparalleled legal education, and a commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to text"
The battle for Mosul: 'I have never seen such hard fighting like this'
Iraqi forces have been trying to oust Isis since October but they must fight among, protect and win over the many thousands of civilians in the city, finds Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in a report made in collaboration with PBS’s Frontline
Rasoul, a 26-year-old radio operator, stood in a narrow street in east Mosula mile from the frontline, peering into the early morning light as the armoured truck packed with explosives crawled towards him.
The other troops around him fired a volley of bullets that ricocheted harmlessly off its thick steel-plated armour before they ran away. But Rasoul, still wrapped in his night-time wool sleeping cloak, stood his ground shouting warnings to anyone who could hear. He darted and hid in a side street when it was just metres away.
The counter-terrorism force’s Mosul brigade had made its temporary headquarters in the small residential street just a few days earlier. As the truck bomb exploded it felt as if the ground was lifted into the air and dropped back down again. The force of the blast flattened two houses, damaged several more and incinerated four of the unit’s vehicles.
How the rise of Donald Trump has re-energised Greece's neo-Nazis
'We should reclaim our country and our interests and put them first, just like Trump'Anthee Carassava Athens
Greece’s most prominent neo-Nazi movement says it has found a new surge in support following Donald Trump’s election as US President, and that his ban on travellers from some Muslim-majority countries “validates” the group’s far-right views.
Stirring a hardline, nationalistic element in Greece, the new President’s controversial immigration ban has sent thousands of supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party, which represents about 10 per cent of the popular vote and is the country's third-largest party, onto the streets. They have staged torchlight parades and called for copycat bans for Greece, which is still struggling to cope with a year-long refugee crisis.
Israeli army gives West Bank settlers 48 hours to leave
Residents of the Amona outpost have been given 48 hours to evacuate the area, according to media reports. The move comes as tensions increase in Israel between nationalist hardliners and the country's top court.
Israeli media outlets reported on Tuesday that the army was giving the settlers 48 hours before it blocked entry to the West Bank outpost. The settlement has been condemned as illegal by critics of the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the settlers must remove their property and leave by midnight Wednesday local time. The order comes as the High Court of Justice simultaneously deliberates over a relocation plan that would see the settlers moved to a nearby site.
The outpost, Amona, is the largest of about 100 outposts established in the West Bank without permission. The country's Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that it should be demolished, with Wednesday February 8 being the last possible date for its removal.
Milky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole Repeller is actually helping our galaxy on its journey across the expanding universe.
Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving at a relative speed for the past 30 years, but they didn't know why.
"Now we find an emptiness in exactly the opposite direction, which provides a 'push' in the sense of a lack of pull," said Brent Tully, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu. "In a tug-of-war, if there are more people at one end, then the flow will be toward them and away from the weaker side."
Assassination puts Myanmar on a razor’s edge
The killing of prominent Muslim lawyer Ko Ni was more likely motivated by his charge for constitutional change than his religious faith
YANGON
The road leading to a Muslim cemetery in Yangon’s North Okkalapa suburb was lined with cars, minivans and buses on Monday, carrying thousands of people who came to pay last respects to Ko Ni, one of the country’s most prominent lawyers and pro-democracy advocates. The majority of the mourners were skullcap-wearing Muslims but people of various faiths were among the massive crowd, underscoring the widespread respect Ko Ni held across religious lines.
Ko Ni, a legal advisor for the ruling National League for Democracy, was assassinated by a lone gunman on Sunday outside of Yangon’s international airport upon returning home from an overseas trip. The assassin, who was waiting for him outside the doors of the airport terminal, was arrested soon after after the shooting. He also killed a taxi driver who had tried to protect Ko Ni as the assailant opened fire. The killing had clear hallmarks of a political assassination, putting the country’s politics on a razor’s edge.
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