North Korea fires second ballistic missile over Japan
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago.
The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km before landing in the sea off Hokkaido, South Korea's military says.
It flew higher and further than one fired over Japan late last month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country would "never tolerate" such "dangerous provocative action".
South Korea responded within minutes by firing two ballistic missiles into the sea in a simulated strike on the North.
Downward spiral: how Venezuela’s symbol of progress became political prisoners’ hell
The dizzying spiral structure in central Caracas was conceived in the 1950s as a monument to a nation’s confidence – but now its crumbling shell houses a notorious political prison. Is El Helicoide a metaphor for modern Venezuela?
by Emma Graham-Harrison in Caracas
Friday 15 September 2017 07.00 BST
Spiralling up a hill in the heart of Caracas is a playful, ambitious building that once embodied Venezuela’s dreams of modernity, power and influence, and was fêted by Salvador Dalí and Pablo Neruda.
Today, its crumbling concrete shell houses the headquarters of Venezuela’s intelligence services and the country’s most notorious political prison. It has become a symbol of national decay, bankrupt dreams and faltering democracy.
Slums on the surrounding slopes obscure the aging Buckminster Fuller dome that tops its elegant coils, but the building can still be seen from around the capital, and casts a long shadow of fear.
AfD, on course for parliament, says Germany done with Nazi past
With SPD support down, the far-right AfD is almost certain to enter parliament in the upcoming German election. Meanwhile, a leading party figure has reiterated calls for Germany to stop apologizing for its Nazi past.
The co-ruling Social Democrats (SPD) are polling at 20 percent, only 8 percent ahead of the right-wing, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), according to an ARD-Deutschlandtrend poll published on Thursday.
The result is the SPD's lowest level since January, when the selection of new party leader Martin Schulz gave an unexpected bounce to the party's support. The AfD's figures, meanwhile, have held relatively firm.
Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) is at 37 percent, while the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) has 9.5 percent, the Left party 9 percent and the Greens 7.5 percent, ARD-Deutschlandtrend said.
Philippines' Duterte may declare martial law next week: defence chief
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may declare nationwide martial law next week if threatened massive protests by communists and other leftists against his rule turn violent or disrupt the country, his defence chief said Friday.
"He said, if the left will try to have a massive protest, start fires on the streets, they will disrupt the country, then I might (declare martial law)," Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told reporters, recounting a conversation with Duterte this week.
Lorenzana emphasised he thought the chances of Duterte declaring martial law were remote because he doubted the scheduled protests on Thursday next week would be as big as the organisers said they were planning.
"But the president is indeed very concerned because it might get out of hand. So he said I might declare martial law."
Child brides: Why underage girls are marrying in Indonesia
Aulia* was 15 when she was married. There wasn't a lot of choice. She had been dating Arief, a sweet-faced boy from the local garage, and the neighbourhood tongues were in overdrive.
"There was all this shaming," Arief recalls. "I hadn't actually kissed her and everybody gossiped about her being pregnant."
Neither were ready for marriage. Aulia had dropped out of school because her stepfather couldn't afford to send her, but wanted to go back: "My friend was still at school."
Arief wanted to save for a few years. He dreamed of a big wedding to show off to his motorcycle club.
SLOPPY U.S. SPIES MISUSED A COVERT NETWORK FOR PERSONAL SHOPPING — AND OTHER STORIES FROM INTERNAL NSA DOCUMENTS
NSA AGENTS SUCCESSFULLY targeted “the entire business chain” connecting foreign cafes to the internet, bragged about an “all-out effort” to spy on liberated Iraq, and began systematically trying to break into virtual private networks, according to a set of internal agency news reports dating to the first half of 2005.
British spies, meanwhile, were made to begin providing new details about their informants via a system of “Intelligence Source Descriptors” created in response to intelligence failures in Iraq. Hungary and the Czech Republic pulled closer to the National Security Agency.
And future Intercept backer Pierre Omidyar visited NSA headquarters for an internal conference panel on “human networking” and open-source intelligence.
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