Fourth victim in Westminster attack named
A 75-year-old man killed in the Westminster attack has been named by police as Leslie Rhodes.
Mr Rhodes, from Streatham in south London, was one of three people hit by a car on Westminster Bridge. The fourth victim was PC Keith Palmer, who was stabbed to death outside Parliament.
Police said two more "significant arrests" have been made in the West Midlands and the North West.
They said 50 people were injured and two are still critical.
Assistant Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley Scotland Yard's top anti-terror officer, added that 31 people had received hospital treatment.
One is considered to have life threatening injuries.
Millions of UK workers at risk of being replaced by robots, study says
Workers in wholesale and retail sectors at highest risk from breakthroughs in robotics and artificial intelligence, PwC report finds
More than 10 million UK workers are at high risk of being replaced by robots within 15 years as the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in a new machine age.
A report by the consultancy firm PwC found that 30% of jobs in Britain were potentially under threat from breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI). In some sectors half the jobs could go.
The report predicted that automation would boost productivity and create fresh job opportunities, but it said action was needed to prevent the widening of inequality that would result from robots increasingly being used for low-skill tasks.
Regional countries urge Venezuela to hold elections
Fourteen countries from North and South America have issued a plea for Venezuela to "re-establish democracy" by releasing political prisoners and holding national polls. An economic crisis is crippling the country.
In a joint statement, the 14 countries called on the Venezuelan government to pursue dialogue and negotiation to resolve the political and economic instability plaguing the oil-exporting nation.
The declaration - signed by the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, among others - was issued by the Mexican Foreign Ministry.
"We reiterate that inclusive and effective dialogue is the right path to achieve lasting solutions to the challenges faced by the Venezuelan people," the statement said.
How the smartphone brought young Chinese back to bicycles
Within 30 minutes of a truck unloading 100 bicycles onto the footpath near Beijing's Guomao subway station at 7.30am, they are gone.Snapped up by young commuters who zero in on their target, eyes glued to smartphones. Unlock. Then they're off and pedalling.
As the weather warms this Beijing spring, swarms of pop-coloured bikes are reclaiming the city's cycle lanes, prompting cursing from taxi drivers. Stacks of parked yellow, orange and blue bikes spillover downtown footpaths - a long forgotten sight in the former "bicycle kingdom".
15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity
The Christian Science Monitor's Passcode traveled across the country to meet these hacker kids who are hunting software bugs, protecting school networks, and helping to safeguard electrical grids.
Kids born after the year 2000 have never lived a day without the internet. Everything in their lives is captured in silicon chips and chronicled on Facebook. Algorithms track how quickly they complete their homework; their text message confessions and #selfies are whisked to the cloud.
Yet the massive digital ecosystem they inherited is fragile, broken, and unsafe. Built without security in mind, it’s constructed on faulty code: From major companies such as Yahoo to the US government, breaches of highly sensitive or personal files have become commonplace. The insecurity of the internet is injecting itself into presidential politics ahead of the November election. In the not too distant future, digital attacks may set off the next war.
As they brace for an even more connected future, there’s a growing community of kids dedicated to fighting off the threat of cyberattacks.
Abe issues fresh denials day after Kagoike’s allegations in sworn Diet testimony
KYODO
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied on Friday that he or his wife Akie gave money or favorable treatment to a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal.
Yasunori Kagoike, the head of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, repeated the allegations in sworn testimony before the Diet on Thursday.
Opposition lawmakers argued that further investigation is needed into whether a government aide to Akie Abe was involved in the sale of a heavily discounted piece of state-owned land last year to Moritomo Gakuen, which recently dropped its plan to open an elementary school on the site.
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