Dread, expectation hang over Washington before Mueller sweep
Updated 0635 GMT (1435 HKT) October 30, 2017
A mood of fateful anticipation is cloaking Washington, with possible arrests imminent after the federal grand jury in the Russia investigation approved its first charges.
By taking one or more people into custody, a prospect first reported by CNN Friday, Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller would create a new, perilous reality for the White House, reflecting the gravity of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and alleged collusion by President Donald Trump's associates.
Trump and his team deny any wrongdoing, and so far there is no conclusive evidence from Mueller's closely held investigation or several congressional probes of nefarious links with the Russians.Hong Kong universities a new battleground in independence debate
Students at universities in Hong Kong fear basic freedoms are under attack from China’s creeping influence
When a handful of students decided to express an opinion on a university campus bulletin board in Hong Kong, they never imagined the backlash that would follow.
What began with a few posters emblazoned with a radical idea, that Hong Kong should split with China and become independent, eventually engulfed the entire political and academic establishment in the latest clash over shrinking freedoms in the semi-autonomous city.
Student representatives at the Chinese University of Hong Kong faced off last month with mainland classmates who screamed their opposition to the political signs and attempted to cover them, while middle-aged pro-China protesters shouted they were nothing more than “British dogs”.Mali's anti-poaching brigade protecting desert elephants from illegal hunting
Collective formed of rangers and soldiers protect herds already beset by sandstorms and terrain's harsh conditions from the bandits and al-Qaeda operatives known to crisscross regionMark Rivett-Carnac
Mali’s elephants, Africa’s northernmost herd and adapted to life in the country’s harsh desert, were in desperate need of protection.
The animals live in an unforgiving landscape southeast of Timbuktu, enduring sandstorms and blistering temperatures. To survive, they trek in search of food and water across what is thought to be the biggest migratory range of their species, more than 12,400 square miles.
But it wasn’t only climate change endangering the elephants. It was also poachers.
Thousands take to the streets of France against harassment
Thousands of people took the "Me too" online campaign against sexual harassment and assault started by the Harvey Weinstein affair onto the streets of France Sunday.
In Paris, the mostly female demonstrators in Republique square waved placards bearing the "#Metoo" hashtag used by tens of thousands of women in the past two weeks to share accounts of being pestered or abused.
"Metoo by a colleague", read a sign carried by one woman. "Metoo by a fellow activist" read another.
Similar gatherings were also held in Marseille, Bordeaux and Lille, among other cities.
According to Paris police, 2,500 people turned out for the rally in the French capital. Elsewhere the numbers were smaller, with one or two hundred turning up for each march.
“A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN” IS THE MOST TERRIFYING MOVIE YOU CAN WATCH THIS HALLOWEEN
Jon Schwarz
THE OBSCURE 2008 movie “Synecdoche, New York,” written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, originated when Sony Pictures Classics approached Kaufman about creating a horror film. Kaufman, best known for deeply wacky scripts like “Being John Malkovich,” agreed. But he wasn’t interested in making the kind of paint-by-numbers movie for teenagers that appears to take place in another dimension. Instead, he later said, he wanted to make a horror film for adults, “about things that are scary in the real world, and in our lives.”
I can attest that Kaufman succeeded. In fact, I found “Synecdoche, New York” so frightening that I’ll never watch it again. Slasher movies like “Friday the 13th” and its 11 sequels are ultimately pleasurable — they end and you wake up from the dream buzzing with the adrenaline evolution gives you to escape predators, yet realize you are not in fact being stalked by Jason Voorhees. But when “Synecdoche, New York” is over and the lights come up, you understand that what was hunting its characters is hunting you too, outside the theater, in reality.
Kim Jong-un visits cosmetics factory with wife and sister
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a cosmetics factory in Pyongyang, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol-ju and sister Kim Yo-jong.
State media released undated photos of the visit on Sunday. Both women are rarely seen in public.
Ms Kim's appearance comes shortly after her recent promotion to a powerful position in North Korea's government.
Foreign luxury goods including make-up have become scarce in North Korea after several rounds of UN sanctions.
Why did he visit a cosmetics factory?
Over the years many countries have stopped importing luxury goods into North Korea as a result of sanctions.
North Korea appears to have developed its own cosmetics industry, with reports of local "high-end" brands such as Bomhyanggi and Unhasu becoming popular with consumers.
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