Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions under fire over Russia meetings
Attorney General Jeff Sessions met Russia's ambassador twice during Donald Trump's presidential campaign last year, the US government has confirmed.
Mr Sessions, a senator at the time, told his January confirmation hearing that he had had no contacts with the Russians during the campaign.
He stressed on Wednesday he had "never met any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign".
The Democrats accused him of "lying under oath" and said he must resign.
They have also called on him to step aside from an investigation by the FBI - which he oversees as attorney general - into alleged Russian interference in the US election, including contacts with Russian officials by those involved in election campaigns.
China accuses western media of 'fake news' about human rights
The Guardian among outlets to report on alleged torture of lawyer Xie Yang, sparking Trump-style rebuke from Beijing
China has launched a Donald Trump-style attack on foreign media, branding claims that a leading human rights lawyer was tortured by government agents “fake news”.
Xinhua, the government’s official news agency, accused the overseas media of “hyping” a series of “cleverly orchestrated lies” by publishing reports about the plight of attorney Xie Yang, who was detained in July 2015 at the start of a crackdown known as China’s war on law.
Reports about Xie’s alleged torture by security agents surfaced on overseas human rights websites late last year. More detailed accounts of similar claims subsequently appeared in newspapers including the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun.
US immigration officials force Nigerian software engineer to complete written test to prove his computer knowledge
It looked to him like someone with no technical background Googled something like: 'Questions to ask a software engineer'
US immigration officials forced a Nigerian software engineer to complete a written test on binary search trees to prove his computer knowledge.
Customs and Border Protection officers, took Celestine Omin, 28, into a room for further checks after he arrived at New York’s JFK Airport last week, 24 hours after he set off.
He told them he worked for Andela, a tech start-up with offices in New York, Lagos, Nairobi and San Francisco, which claims to take "the most talented developers on the African continent" and link them with potential US employers.
Researchers uncover 'direct evidence' of life on Earth 4 billion years ago
Microfossils found in Canada may be the oldest-known evidence of life on Earth, scientists have announced. The discovery supports theories about how life began, though some say the evidence may not be strong enough.
Microscopic tubes and filaments discovered in rock from the Hudson Bay shoreline in northern Quebec are "direct evidence" that life existed on Earth some 3.8 to 4.3 billion years ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
The microfossils in question are the mineralized remains of microbes similar to bacteria that thrive today around hydrothermal vents on the sea floor.
The tiny tubes were made of a form of iron oxide, or rust, formed by microbes encased in layers of quartz, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal "Nature."
Breakdown of China’s plan to tackle pollution
Steel and aluminum producers in 28 cities are told to slash output in winter and government begins moves to ban truck transport for coal
MARCH 2, 2017 12:16 PM
China has ordered steel and aluminum producers in 28 cities to slash output during winter and required coal transport by rail instead of truck in Tianjin and Hebei province, in Beijing’s latest effort to crack down on pollution.
A 26-page document dated February 17 and seen by Reuters outlined a series of steps covering heavy industry in four northern provinces Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan as well as Beijing and Tianjin and cutting coal use in the capital.
Inside Nicaragua's bloody conflict over indigenous land
As new settlers occupy indigenous lands in Nicaragua, the violence is forcing the native Miskitos to flee to Honduras.
by
Mira Galanova
Mira Galanova is a freelance multimedia journalist specialising in international affairs and human rights.
Waspam, Nicaragua - The story that Lina Chale recounts in her native Miskito language is in stark contrast to the blue doves, a symbol of peace, painted on a white wall of a church behind her. "They killed him in such a ghastly way," says 52-year-old Chale.
On August 18, 2016 , her younger brother Gerardo failed to return home from his farm in the mountains. He had been kidnapped along with another Miskito man from La Esperanza, a village on the Coco River. A few days later, indigenous rangers discovered their decapitated bodies .
For the past two years, a string of violent attacks has plagued Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.
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