Canada crash: 14 killed as junior hockey team's bus and lorry collide
Police in Canada have confirmed that 14 people were killed when a lorry and a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided on Friday evening.
The Humboldt Broncos were travelling on Highway 35, north of Tisdale in the province of Saskatchewan.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said 28 people were on the bus, 14 of whom were killed, including the driver.
The other 14 aboard the bus have been taken to hospital. Three are in critical condition.
Death toll mounts as Palestinians protest on Gaza border
Renewed violence comes despite call by UN secretary general urging Israeli forces to use ‘extreme caution’
At least nine Palestinian men have been killed and scores more injured by Israeli gunfire on the Gaza border, a week after 18 Palestinians were killed at similar demonstrations.
The renewed violence came despite a call by the UN secretary general, António Guterres for Israel to exercise “extreme caution”. His appeal was echoed by the UN human rights spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell who said unjustified recourse to live fire could amount to wilful killing of civilians – a breach of the fourth Geneva convention.
Figures for the dead and injured were supplied by the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza and a website associated with the group. The most seriously injured had reportedly been shot in the head or upper body. Another Palestinian who had been injured in last week’s protests also died on Friday from his woundsNobody expected race riots in Washington DC until the shattering events of 1968
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the paroxysm of rioting, destruction and arson that engulfed Washington after the assassination of Martin Luther King JrMichael E Ruane
On 17 June 1963, the body of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers was borne through the streets of Washington, bound for a historic black church on 14th Street.
People bared their heads and wept as the hearse passed, followed by hundreds of mourners. Evers had been assassinated in Mississippi five days earlier and was to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Twenty-five thousand people would turn out to view his body at the John Wesley AME Zion Church. “There’ll be no trouble,” an NAACP leader said. “Only ... troubled consciences.” Washington was, after all, “the coloured man’s paradise”, as some whites called it.
What is Germany’s dual education system — and why do other countries want it?
The German economy is powered by products sold the world over. The strength of Europe's powerhouse depends on outbound shipments. We take a look at one of its latest exports and reveal the secrets behind its success.
Charlotte Falke creates technical drawings of power plant generators. The 23-year-old designer, a trainee at German industrial giant Siemens, spent a year at university before opting for a more vocational program. "I left because there was too much theory," she said. "I wanted more practice."
Falke is not alone. Over 50 percent of Germans enter dual vocational and educational training programs (VET) as a route into employment. They choose from 326 professional trades that include diamond cutters, aircraft mechanics and even chimney sweeps.
Amid uproar over gender discrimination in sumo, female mayor barred from speaking from the ring
BY REIJI YOSHIDA
STAFF WRITER
A female mayor’s request to deliver a speech from inside a dohyō (sumo ring) was denied Friday in the wake of an incident earlier this week that brought the sport’s rules on gender into the international spotlight.
Takarazuka Mayor Tomoko Nakagawa had asked the organizer of a Friday sumo exhibition in the Hyogo Prefecture city to let her deliver a speech from the ring, but the organizer said no after consulting with the Japan Sumo Association, officials in the municipal office and the local organizing committee said.
The organizing committee cited the long-standing sumo tradition banning women from entering the “sacred” ring, which is often criticized as gender discrimination. Critics say the tradition is based on Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that women are “unclean” because of menstrual blood.
Brazil's ex-president defies order to surrender to federal police
Updated 0901 GMT (1701 HKT) April 7, 2018
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to turn himself in to federal authorities Friday, when he was supposed to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
Lula da Silva will remain at the headquarters of the country's metalworkers union building Saturday, where he's been holed up, said Lindbergh Farias, a senator for Workers' Party.
Farias said Lula will stay in the building and celebrate mass Saturday in memory of his deceased wife, Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, on what would have been her 67th birthday.
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