Lombok earthquake: Strong aftershock amid Indonesia rescue efforts
The Indonesian island of Lombok has been hit by a strong tremor, as the search continues for victims of Sunday's earthquake.
The latest aftershock had a magnitude of 5.9 or 6.2, according to monitors. It brought down some buildings.
Rescue workers are still digging through rubble and trying to get aid to survivors of the earlier, larger quake.
The Red Cross says that incident, which was magnitude 6.9 and killed at least 131, was "exceptionally destructive".
Some villages had "completely collapsed", said a Red Cross official in Lombok, Christopher Rassi.
Argentina senate rejects bill to legalise abortion
Lawmakers vote against allowing elective abortion in first 14 weeks of pregnancy
Argentina’s senate has rejected a bill to legalise elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Lawmakers debated for more than 15 hours and voted 31 in favour to 38 against, despite the fact opinion polls showed the legal abortion bill had strong public support
Pressure from the Catholic church prevented its approval, according to female activists who supported the bill. Argentina is the homeland of Pope Francis.
How was the NRA founded and how did a gun lobby become so influential in American politics?
Firearms organisation continues to insist easy access to weapons not to blame for high school massacres and uses campaigning muscle to press for looser restrictionsJoe Sommerlad
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is America’s oldest civil rights organisation and the country’s most influential political lobby group, boasting six million members.
NRA spokespeople like Dana Loesch routinely appear on TV in the aftermath of mass shootings to insist that the real enemy is the pernicious influence of the entertainment industry and that the solution is the sale of more guns, not fewer.
But the group has strayed a long way from its roots. Founded in the aftermath of the Civil War, the NRA was actually in favour of gun control until 1968.
German drug company sues to block US execution
A US state's first-ever lethal injection could be delayed or permanently halted by a German company that said Nebraska may have illegally acquired its drugs. The state plans on using an untested four-drug combination.
German pharmaceutical company Fresenius Kabi filed a lawsuit to stop the US state of Nebraska from going forward with a planned execution next week.
The suit, filed late on Tuesday evening in the US, states that Nebraska was planning to use two of the German company's drugs for a lethal injection to kill Carey Dean Moore.
Moore was sentenced to death for murdering two taxi drivers in Omaha in 1979. He is no longer fighting the execution order, but the suit may delay or permanently halt his planned August 14 execution.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Biti in custody after failed asylum bid
Zimbabwean police took former finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti into custody on Thursday after Zambian authorities rejected his bid for asylum and deported him, his lawyer said.
Police in Zimbabwe were looking for Biti and eight other opposition figures for allegedly fomenting violence following a disputed national election in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner.
“An hour ago Biti was handed over to Zimbabwean law enforcement officers and as we speak he is on Zimbabwean soil,” Biti’s Zambian lawyer Gilbert Phiri told Reuters by phone.
Climate change is turning the Middle East's breadbasket into a cannabis farm
Updated 0654 GMT (1454 HKT) August 9, 2018
The farmer plucks a cannabis flower from a long stalk. He presses it against his nose, inhales deeply and begins to extol the therapeutic -- if not necessarily scientific -- properties of his crop.
"Smell this. It smells like heaven," says Abu Salim, who doesn't want his real name used for security reasons. "This is the herb of happiness. My friend says that when he smokes a joint, his wife becomes a princess, the world shines, and life is beautiful!"
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