Manchester attack: 22 dead and 59 hurt in suicide bombing
Twenty-two people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suicide attack at Manchester Arena.
The blast happened in the foyer at 22:35 BST on Monday at the end of a concert by US singer Ariana Grande.
Police said the lone male attacker, who died in the blast, detonated an improvised explosive device.
Relatives are using social media to hunt for missing loved ones, and an emergency number, 0161 856 9400, has been set up.
Sixty ambulances attended the incident and those wounded are now being treated at six hospitals around the city.
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Indonesian men caned for consensual gay sex in Aceh
Hundreds packed mosque’s courtyard to witness the canings in Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practise sharia law
Two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province have been publicly caned dozens of times for consensual gay sex, a punishment rights advocates denounced as “medieval torture” and escalates an anti-gay backlash.
Hundreds packed the courtyard of a mosque to witness the caning on Tuesday, which was the first time that Aceh, the only province in Indonesia to practise sharia law, has caned people for homosexuality.
The men, aged 20 and 23, were arrested in March after vigilantes broke into their rented room to catch them having sex.
Donald Trump is trying to stick to the script – but he's about to really mess up in the Middle East
There he was talking of the 'ultimate deal' between Israel and the Palestinians – as if peace was just a commodity to be bought or sold
In Riyadh, Trump couldn’t mention where most of the the 9/11 hijackers came from or whose Sunni cult-faith was the inspiration for Isis – nor which country chopped off heads with Isis-like relish. (Answer: Saudi Arabia). And when he arrived in Israel on Monday, Trump was faced with a new censorship protocol: don’t mention who was occupying whose property in the West Bank or which country was outrageously and continuously stealing land – legally owned by Arabs – for Jews and Jews only. (Answer: Israel).
So bingo, in the biggest Middle East alliance ever created in history, the Saudis and the other Sunni Arab dictators and America’s crackpot President and Israel’s cynical Prime Minister have all agreed on the identity of the devil country they can all curse with one voice, inspirer of “world terror”, instigator of Middle East instability, the greatest threat to world peace: Shia Iran.
Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye in court for bribery trial
Supporters of disgraced former President Park Geun-hye have rallied outside a Seoul court as her corruption trial got underway. Park, who was impeached in December, is also charged with extortion and abuse of power.
Around 150 people waved national flags and raised a placard insisting "Park is innocent," as their former leader arrived for the beginning of her graft trial on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Park was seen emerging from a Justice Ministry bus in handcuffs before being escorted into the Seoul courtroom by police. It was her first public appearance since she was jailed on March 31.
Presiding judge Kim Se-Yun asked her: "What is your occupation, the accused Park Geun-hye?"
The 65-year-old responded: "I don't have any occupation."
From NATO to Antifa: One Afghan's journey to Greece
One Afghan refugee's journey from his war-torn homeland resulted in him fighting Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party.
Athens, Greece - Around a thousand people march through the streets of the Greek capital, Athens, with flags and banners, eventually stopping in front of columns of baton and shield-wielding police in riot gear.
On this gusty afternoon in mid-April, the police block the anti-fascist demonstrators - or Antifa - from continuing their march to the offices of Golden Dawn, the neo-fascist party with 17 seats in the Hellenic parliament.
The Antifa activists - comprising anarchists, communists and other anti-racists - shout slogans against Golden Dawn in Greek. "Not in parliament, not anywhere," chants a group of demonstrators carrying red flags. "Smash fascism everywhere."
EVERY YEAR, FACEBOOK gathers hundreds of developers, corporate allies, and members of the press to hear CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of our shared near future. The gathering is known as “F8,” and this year’s iteration included some radical plans, one of which could’ve been pulled from a William Gibson novel: Facebook is working on a means of using your brain as an input device.
Such technology is still many years off, as is, apparently, Facebook’s willingness to publicly think through its very serious implications.
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