Trump NFL row: Sports stars round on US president
US President Donald Trump is facing growing condemnation from the sports world after his criticism of players.
On Friday, Mr Trump said the National Football League (NFL) should fire players who protest during the US anthem.
High-profile football players as well as basketball star LeBron James have attacked Mr Trump in response.
One NFL team owner said Mr Trump's comments were "offensive" but Mr Trump has gone on to repeat his criticism.
At a rally on Friday night, Mr Trump said NFL players who protested during the playing of the national anthem should be fired by their team - referencing a controversial string of protests over race relations started by player Colin Kaepernick last year.
Senior Indian politician defends slapping Hindu girl over relationship with Muslim boy
'Everyone knows the consequences of such relations'
A senior Indian politician has been caught on camera slapping a young woman for seeing a Muslim man.
Sangeeta Varshney, the leader of BJP Mahila Morcha, slapped the 18-year-old twice while asking her: “Don’t you have any shame, do you think you’re that grown up? Can you not even understand who is a Hindu and who Muslim?” The incident happened in Algiarh, India, on Tuesday.
According to the The Times of India, the politician shamed the Hindu girl for being “seen in public” with a man of a different faith and resorted to violence when the girl refused to let Ms Varshney call her parents.
Islamic State on the RopesTwo Paths Cross in the Ruins of Raqqa
When Islamic State conquered Raqqa in 2014, Fadi al-Hadi fled to Germany while Nadja Ramadan abandoned her life near Frankfurt to marry an Islamist in the IS stronghold. Now that the city is about to get liberated, the two are trying to retrace their steps.
Everywhere in the sun-drenched villages and towns of northern Syria, in the camps and the ruins where they have been living for months, or even years, the refugees from Raqqa are eagerly awaiting the chance to return. They gush about evenings spent in the "Casino," as they call the bars along the banks of the Euphrates. They speak longingly of their homes and their gardens, as though they had once lived in the Garden of Eden. It's a lot of longing for a relatively unspectacular place.
Two brothers have brought grapes from their garden in al-Meshlab, the first Raqqa neighborhood to be liberated, all the way to Tal Abyad, located 100 kilometers away. "We can't return yet, but we were able to check if the house is still standing," one of them explains. The grapes taste like -- grapes. But they are served as though they were a rare delicacy.
In Germany’s ‘Little Istanbul’, winning hearts is key to election
Keupstrasse in Cologne, western Germany, is one of the country’s most famous Turkish shopping streets. Locals there have been keenly tuning in to the diplomatic crisis between Berlin and Ankara, which has tainted the election campaign.
There is no other street quite like it in Germany. Visitors entering the Keupstrasse are greeted with brightly coloured fairy lights spelling out “Welcome to the Keupstrasse” in German. Once inside,however, Turkish is ubiquitous: this is the heart of the Turkish diaspora. In the 1970s, the street is where Germans discovered baklava and Turkish pizzas for the first time.
It’s hard to believe that this 700-metre stretch of road nicknamed Little Istanbul is 3,000km away from Ankara. There isn’t a single "traditional" German shop in sight on Keupstrasse. Here, women in headscarves can stroll down the street before heading to the mosque nearby. They can then amble along to Music Gala, a record shop blasting out the latest hits from Istanbul. Couples come to the area to organise their weddings in one of the many specialised shops and then whet their appetites at Özdag, a bakery that opened in the 1980s specialising in bespoke wedding cakes.
What it's like to crawl inside a 3,500-year-old Egyptian tomb
Updated 0010 GMT (0810 HKT) September 24, 2017
A man in a gray robe and white headscarf brushes the dust, undisturbed for thousands of years, off a human skull, one of many messily discarded by grave robbers.
"They were searching for gold and jewelry, and when they didn't find it they just threw everything over here," says Ali Farouq al-Gaftawi, the veteran foreman at the excavation at Draa Abu Al-Naga, a barren desert hillside overlooking the lush, green Nile Valley.
Al-Gaftawi never studied archaeology -- he never went to university -- but over the past four decades, working on dozens of digs with some of the world's top Egyptologists, he has learned a thing or two about those he calls his "grandfathers and grandmothers," the inhabitants of ancient Egypt.
The displaced and 'forgotten' in Colombia's Soacha slum
The impoverished Colombian city that's home to victims of Colombia's conflict and thousands of Venezuela's migrants.
Soacha, Colombia - Navigating a steep slope with a bucket of water Rosa Fierro is careful not to spill a single drop of her precious cargo.
She makes the short journey down the hill from her small wooden shack up to 10 times a day to collect water from a black tank perched on the side of a mountain overlooking a sand quarry.
"Welcome to Piedras Blancas!" Rosa laughs as she dips her purple bucket in the tank and fills it to the brim. "This is the only way I can get water," Rosa explains as she rushes back home to prepare lunch. "When this runs out we'll have to wait for the next delivery; that could take a few days or sometimes more than a week."
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