Iran plane crash: All 66 people on board dead - airline
Sixty-six people have been killed in a passenger plane crash in Iran, airline company officials say.
The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj, came down in the Zagros mountains of central Iran.
The Red Crescent has deployed a search and rescue team to the site near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province.
The plane left Tehran in at 05:00 local time (01:30 GMT) and disappeared from radar later.
A local official said bad weather had hampered a helicopter search.
"All emergency forces are on alert," a spokesman said.
The plane is believed to be a 20-year-old ATR 72-500.
Pope Francis wowed the world but, five years on, is in troubled waters
He entered office on a wave of energy but, as discontent grows over his attitude to abuse scandals, Francis faces opposition on all sides
Chatham House is one of the most important foreign affairs thinktanks in the UK. But on Wednesday its focus will not be a president, or an organisation like the World Bank, or the future of the EU after Brexit, but a religious leader: Pope Francis. And it will be the third time in recent weeks that Britain has turned its attention to the pope.
Two weeks ago, the Foreign Office-sponsored thinktank Wilton Park took delegates to the Vatican to meet the pope and discuss violent religious extremism, while last week the Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, was in Rome to talk with Francis about modern slavery.
Black Panther: Twitter bans trolls who claimed white cinema-goers were being attacked at screenings
Trolls tried to spread hatred by falsely claiming black people were attacking whites for going to see the film. They were quickly found out
Racist trolls are making false claims that white people are being attacked at screenings of the Marvel film Black Panther.
The first blockbuster superhero film with a black director and mostly black cast grossed a record-breaking $25.2m at the box office when it opened on Thursday night.
But the occasion was marred by trolls attempting to stir up hatred by using social media by falsely alleging that they had been attacked by black cinema-goers because they were white.
Currency Cold WarDonald Trump's Dangerous Game
Despite a booming economy, U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for a weaker dollar, a move that threatens to jeopardize Europe's fragile economic upswing. There's very little the European Central Bank can do to fight back.
For the past 15 years, Rolf Philipp has manufactured "bones for airplanes" in the town of Übersee on Bavaria's Chiemsee lake. That's what the founder and CEO of Aircraft Philipp calls the aluminum and titanium parts his company produces for the aerospace industry. His company has a combined 250 employees in Bavaria and at a second German plant in Karlsruhe -- and business is going well, with the family-owned enterprise bringing in over 60 million euros in revenues last year.
Recently, though, developments overseas have been making life more difficult for Philipp. Within the past eight months, the United States dollar has lost more than 10 percent of its value, with the exchange rate now standing at $1.24 to the euro. Just one year ago, Aircraft Philipp found itself profiting from an exchange rate of under $1.10 to the euro.
The Mexican school helping people with disabilities to dance
Andrea Carmona
In Puebla, Mexico, there is a dance troupe open to everyone. Ballet Incluyente (inclusive ballet) is a non-profit organisation that has been training dancers with disabilities since 2016. The programme helps people with disabilities to become fitter and stronger, and find the self-confidence and space for self-expression they may not find in a society that discriminates against people with disabilities.
Our Observer Andrea Carmona is the artistic director of Ballet Incluyente. She’s a teacher of contemporary dance who had her first experience teaching dance to people with disabilities in London, when she worked on a project that collaborated with people with Parkinson’s disease. On her return to Puebla in Mexico, a city southeast of the nation’s capital, the town’s Institute of Art and Culture commissioned a dance piece to cap off the 2016 edition of their annual arts festival Diverso, which celebrates the contributions that people with disabilities make to the city.
The event was a huge success, and Carmona decided to take the idea and run with it, founding a dance company made of up dancers with disabilities, a dance studio for dancers in wheelchairs, and the Escuela Profesional de Danza, a dance school dedicated solely to dancers with disabilities. Since then the not-for-profit has gone from strength to strength. Carmona told the FRANCE 24 Observers about the value of a project like Ballet Incluyente.
The oil field carnage that Moscow doesn't want to talk about
Updated 0559 GMT (1359 HKT) February 18, 2018
There are growing indications that US airstrikes killed and injured dozens of Russian military contractors in northern Syria earlier this month. But in stark contrast to the death of a Russian pilot shot down by rebels in Syria In January, when the airman was hailed as a hero by the Defense Ministry, Moscow appears to wish this story would go away.
The Kremlin has downplayed reports of mass casualties, not named any of those who died and not said why they were there in the first place.
But families of the dead men are starting to ask questions. And details of just why the mercenaries were in the oil-rich region -- and the target of their ill-fated operation -- are starting to emerge.
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