New York truck attack: Five Argentine friends killed
Five friends from Argentina were among those killed in a truck attack in New York on Tuesday.
Eight people were killed and 11 injured when the driver of the truck hit people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan.
A 29-year-old man, reported to be an Uzbek immigrant, was shot and injured by police as he left the vehicle.
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to "step up" vetting measures in the wake of the attack.
The suspect reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") as he left the truck. Officials said it was a terror attack - the deadliest in the city since the 11 September attacks.
'It feels like Dominica is finished': life amid the ruins left by Hurricane Maria
With almost every building damaged or reduced to rubble, no power and little water, survivors of September’s storm are relying on shelters and a trickle of aidWhen it rains or the wind blows in the tiny fishing village of Scotts Head, the youngest residents run for cover. With Dominica’s once-lush landscape deeply scarred by the unprecedented fury of Hurricane Maria only weeks earlier, the signs of nature’s wrath are everywhere and felt by everyone.
“The children are terrified the hurricane will return – we all are. Everybody is still in shock,” says Guadiosa Ytac, 49, who left London for the Caribbean more than a decade ago.
On Monday 18 September, in the dead of night, the category 5 storm bore down on the island and lashed it for hours. Torrential rain and 160mph gusts tore off roofs, smashed through walls, uprooted trees and lifted roads. Communication towers snapped in two, schools were flattened and electricity cut. Nothing was spared.
Germany marks 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg
German leaders gathered in Wittenberg to mark 500 years since Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation. Alongside ceremonies in the eastern city, events were held across Germany.
Germany celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Tuesday with a national holiday and ceremonies in the eastern city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther began a split in the Catholic Church that transformed Christianity and Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Saxony-Anhalt state Premier Reiner Haseloff attended several ceremonies in Wittenberg that started with an afternoon church service in the city's Castle Church and concluded with a ceremony in the city hall in the evening.
Turkish rights activist arrested over 2016 coup attempt
A Turkish court on Wednesday placed prominent businessman and civil society activist Osman Kavala under arrest on suspicion of links to last year's failed coup, state media reported.
Kavala was charged with "attempting to overthrow the government" in connection with the July 2016 attempted putsch as well as a 2013 corruption probe that targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to state-run news agency Anadolu.
The Istanbul court also charged Kavala with "attempting to remove the constitutional order", Anadolu said.
Kavala, chairman of the Anadolu Kultur (Anatolian Culture) NGO which focuses on cultural collaboration with Europe, has been in custody since October 18.
How Russia spawned more ISIL fighters than most nations
Abdulmajid Abakarov, a 12-year-old boy from Russia's troubled province of Dagestan, had not seen his mother in three years.
Zagidat Abakarova, 34, and her two younger children were "forcibly held" in Syria by her husband, who had joined ISIL, Russian officials said.
On October 21, the boy waited for her at the airport in Grozny, the capital of neighbouring Chechnya, in an agitated crowd of civilians, security officers and journalists.
Suspect says 4 teen girls among victims in Kanagawa dismemberment case: sources
Takahiro Shiraishi, under arrest on suspicion of dumping a corpse, has told police that four of the nine people he says he has killed since August were teenage girls, an investigative source has told the Mainichi Shimbun.
"There were women in their 20s (among the victims), but there were four girls in their teens, too," Shiraishi was quoted as telling police. The 27-year-old apparently also stated, "I murdered a man and a woman, a couple, right after I moved into my apartment in late August."
Shiraishi was arrested on Oct. 31 in connection with the discovery of the body parts of nine people -- eight female and one male -- in his one-room Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture apartment the day before. Police are moving to identify the remains, ascertain Shiraishi's motives and how he killed his victims.
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