Alabama election: Democrat Jones defeats Roy Moore in Senate upset
Doug Jones has become the first Democrat in 25 years to win a US Senate seat for Alabama after a bitter campaign against Republican Roy Moore.
His unexpected victory deals a blow to President Donald Trump, who backed Mr Moore, and narrows the Republican majority in the Senate to 51-49.
Mr Moore has so far refused to concede. All votes have now been counted.
He fought a controversial campaign, in which allegations surfaced of sexual misconduct with teenage girls.
Mr Moore, a firebrand conservative who has said he believes that homosexual activity should be illegal, has repeatedly denied the claims against him.
Chinese authorities collecting DNA from all residents of Xinjiang
Officials build database of iris scans and blood types of everyone aged 12 to 65 in region home to 11 million Muslim UighursChinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data from every resident in a far western region, Human Rights Watch has said.
Officials are also building a database of iris scans and blood types of everyone aged between 12 and 65 in Xinjiang, adding to controls in a place some experts have called an “open-air prison”.
The region is home to over 11 million Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic minority, and is occasionally hit by bouts of violence.
North Korea’s prisons 'worse' than Nazi camps, judge who survived Auschwitz concludes
Report finds enough evidence to charge the Kim regime with internationally recognised war crimes
North Korea's political prisons are just as bad as - and perhaps even worse than - the Nazi concentration camps of the Holocaust, a renowned judge and Auschwitz survivor has concluded after hearing from former North Korean prisoners and guards.
Thomas Buergenthal, who served on the International Court of Justice, is one of three jurists who have concluded that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should be tried for crimes against humanity for the way his regime uses brutal political prisons to control the population.
“I believe that the conditions in the [North] Korean prison camps are as terrible, or even worse, than those I saw and experienced in my youth in these Nazi camps and in my long professional career in the human rights field,” said Buergenthal, who was in Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen as a child, as well as the ghetto of Kielce, Poland.
Egyptian singer jailed for music video 'inciting debauchery'
A female Egyptian singer has been jailed for a sexually suggestive music video in which she appears in underwear and eats a banana. It caused a stir in the conservative country.
The 21-year-old pop singer has been jailed for two years after she appeared in the music video.
A Cairo court charged Shaimaa Ahmed, who goes by the name Shyma, of inciting debauchery and harming public morality. It also ordered her to pay a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds, about €476 ($560).
Shyma's song, titled "I have issues," has sparked controversy on social media and television in the conservative Muslim-majority country. Presumed North Korean ghost ship washes ashore in northern Japan
Updated 0843 GMT (1643 HKT) December 13, 2017
Another presumed North Korean vessel has washed up on Japan's shores, with at least one dead body on board.
The boat is the latest in a recent spate of so-called "ghost ships" drifting into Japanese waters from the reclusive North Asian nation, raising concerns about the country's deteriorating state in the face of international sanctions.
The 10.7 meter (35 ft) long vessel was discovered on a beach in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata prefecture, early Tuesday morning, a Niigata police spokesman confirmed to CNN.
'Beaten' Palestinian boy in viral photo to face charges
by Farah Najjar
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy, shown in a photo that has been roundly condemned as symbolising the Israeli army's use of excessive force, has been accused of throwing stones at a group of armed Israeli soldiers.
An image of Fawzi al-Junaidi, blindfolded and surrounded by more than 20 Israeli occupation forces, was widely denounced as it was shared on social media earlier this week.
The scene pictures al-Junaidi looking disoriented, wearing a grey shirt and ripped jeans as dozens of soldiers crowd around him carrying guns and wearing protective gear, including helmets and knee pads.
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