Brett Kavanaugh: Key senators back embattled Supreme Court choice
Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court seat looks all but confirmed after he won the backing of key senators despite an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations.
Republican Senator Susan Collins and Joe Manchin, a Democrat, both indicated their backing for the judge on Friday.
Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation would tilt America's highest court in favour of conservatives.
The court has the final say on issues such as abortion and gun control.
French investigate after Interpol chief Meng Hongwei goes missing
Wife says she has not heard from her husband since he returned to China last week
French police have opened an investigation after the wife of the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, said she had not heard from her husband since he travelled home to his native China last week.
French police sources and justice officials said Meng’s wife, who lives with him and their children in Lyon, south-east France, where the global organisation for police cooperation is based, reported him missing on Friday.
Interpol said it was aware of the reports but it was “a matter for the relevant authorities in France and China”, adding that the day-to-day running of the organisation was the responsibility of its secretary general, Jürgen Stock, rather than the president, who chairs its executive committee.
Jason Van Dyke: Chicago police officer found guilty of murder after fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald
'Justice for Laquan! Justice for Laquan!' demonstrators chanted in Chicago following the verdict's announcement
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been found guilty of second degree murder and multiple accounts of aggravated battery by a jury over the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014.
Van Dyke's had originally been on trial for first degree murder for the shooting, marking the first time since 1980 that a Chicago police officer had stood trial for that crime.
In anticipation of the verdict, protesters in the city had already begun taking to the streets in downtown Chicago, and police advised food carts to leave Daley Plaza in case demonstrators grew violent. Some schools had indicated they were considering sending students home early if the verdict was announced during classes, and the Chicago Police Department said in a statement that it had "a comprehensive operating plan to ensure public safety in all of our neighbourhoods while simultaneously protecting the rights of peaceful demonstrations".
Italy's ghost towns lie in rubble 2 years after quake
Two years after a devastating earthquake, the town of Visso still looks as if the disaster happened yesterday. Bureaucratic chaos has forced many to move away, and reconstruction has yet to begin. Ylenia Gostoli reports.
A pair of socks and a shirt on a drying line stretched across a window may seem like a sign of life amid the silence that still envelops the old town of Visso, two years after a 6.5 earthquake hit the town.
But the laundry is a sign that nothing here has changed much since the night when Visso's residents — officially 1,200 — were loaded onto buses and taken to hotels and bed-and-breakfasts on the coast.
But the laundry is a sign that nothing here has changed much since the night when Visso's residents — officially 1,200 — were loaded onto buses and taken to hotels and bed-and-breakfasts on the coast.
With a nod to #MeToo, Nobel's 2018 choice captures moment in history
Updated 0414 GMT (1214 HKT) October 6, 2018
The announcement of who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize is always most powerful when it taps into the global conversation of the moment.
In that sense, the 2018 decision to recognize two people -- Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad -- for their efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war could not have been more apt, or better timed.
The announcement landed one year to the day since the New York Times published a report on Harvey Weinstein that blew open the #MeToo movement. It also came hours after hundreds of Americans were arrested during protests over the nomination of a Supreme Court judge who has been accused of sexual assault during high school (he denies the claims).
Brazil: Youth struggle through economic crisis as election looms
Young Brazilians face battle to find employment in stuttering economy as presidential poll approaches.
Sitting in a small and airless living room on the edge of northern Rio de Janeiro's winding Acari favela, Christian Lucas Fonseca's mother says she is worried.
"There's no opportunity for young people," Paula Lucas Fonseca, 45, says.
"It's very difficult ... and a lot of mothers have lost hope because they can't control it [their children's future]."
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