Indian supreme court decriminalises homosexuality
Cheers from campaigners after colonial-era law is struck down after decades of uncertainty
India’s supreme court has struck down a colonial-era law that effectively banned homosexual sex acts in a landmark ruling for gay rights.
The court announced the verdict in Delhi on Thursday morning, drawing cheers from a crowd of LBGTI Indians and their supporters gathered on a lawn outside the building.
“It’s in our favour,” a young woman, Smriti, shouted as she embraced three others before they were mobbed by television cameras. They had seen a text message from a journalist inside the court. "That's when we knew they had lifted it," she said.
A London hotel room, counterfeit perfume and 11,000 hours of CCTV footage: How Russian novichok suspects were found
One of the keys to identifying the two men allegedly responsible for the Salisbury poisoning lay in the discovery of traces of novichok in their hotel room in London, similar evidence to the polonium trail left by the two men accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko 12 years ago.
The security agencies concluded fairly early in their investigation that the attack on former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was carried out by people who had arrived at the country from abroad rather than those based here.
The checking of names of airline passengers focused on those who had come from Russia for unusually short visits and two of the names which came up were those of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Borishov.
Two Koreas to discuss denuclearisation at Pyongyang summit
The leaders of the two Koreas will hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, Seoul said Thursday, as the North's leader Kim Jong-un renewed his commitment to the denuclearisation of the flashpoint peninsula.
The announcement of the September 18-20 summit -- the third between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in this year -- comes as US efforts to dismantle the North's nuclear arsenal have stalled.
The two leaders will meet in the North Korean capital to discuss "practical measures to denuclearise" the Korean peninsula, South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong told reporters.
Lost childhood: Boko Haram victims gripped by thoughts of revenge
As children affected by violence dream of being soldiers to exact retribution, experts call for mental health support.
by Chika Oduah
The field is wide and scorching under dry midday heat. Dozens of children kick up the sand underneath their sandals.
Their shrieks echo as they roll their heads back in carefree laughter. They're playing, but not with toys or balls.
They are playing a game called "Boko Haram versussoja (soldier)".
FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today’s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company’s conscience. “We would only operate in a country where we could do so in keeping with our values,” she went on. Either this was a lie told under oath, or Facebook has some pretty lousy values.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., questioned Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the fact that they are both ostensibly American companies, but also firms with users around the world — including in countries with legal systems and values that differ drastically from the United States.
Gov't acknowledges first radiation death among Fukushima plant workers
The Japanese government has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.
A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011, triggering a tsunami that killed some 18,000 people and the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years earlier.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said that compensation should be paid to the family of the man in his 50s who died from lung cancer, an official told Reuters by phone.
The worker had spent his career working at nuclear plants around Japan and worked at the Fukushima Daiichi plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power at least twice after the March 2011 meltdowns at the station.
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