Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates
The identities of the alleged 15-member Saudi team believed to be behind Khashoggi's killing are coming to light.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain a document certifying he divorced his ex-wife - never to be seen since.
Turkish sources have told media outlets they believe the Saudi writer and critic was killed inside the consulate in what they describe as "premeditated murder".
Saudi officials have countered that claim, insisting Khashoggi left the building before vanishing.
Hurricane Michael: Record-breaking 'hell' storm mauls US
The third-strongest storm in recorded history to hit the mainland US has battered north-west Florida, flooding beach towns and snapping trees.
Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a category four storm with 155mph (250km/h) winds in the state's Panhandle region.
Two people, including a child, were killed by falling trees, officials say.
The storm left nearly 500,000 people without electricity in Florida, Alabama and Georgia, emergency services say.
China 'legalises' internment camps for million Uighurs
Laws revised in Xinjiang region to permit ‘education centres’ for ‘people influenced by extremism’
China’s far north-western region of Xinjiang has retroactively legitimised the use of internment camps where up to one million Muslims are being held.
Amid sustained international criticism, Chinese authorities have revised legislation to allow the regional government to officially permit the use of “education and training centres” to incarcerate “people influenced by extremism”.
Chinese authorities deny that the internment camps exist but say petty criminals are sent to vocational “training centres”. Former detainees say they were forced to denounce Islam and profess loyalty to the Communist party in what they describe as political indoctrination camps.
Nazis' stolen 'loan' from Greek bank: Will Germany pay it back?
Greece owes Germany billions of euros. Or is it the other way around? More than seven decades after the end of WWII, Athens and Berlin are still at odds over costs incurred during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier travelled to Greece on Wednesday for a state visit, where he is to meet his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Talks are set to include topics including the country's emergence from the debt crisis and ongoing youth unemployment – but an even older topic likely to come up is that of Greece's demand for German reparations from World War Two.
While Germany has long held the issue as closed, it will be hard to avoid – Steinmeier is to begin his trip with a visit the former concentration camp Haidari, which was operated by the Nazis in an Athens suburb during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II.
Meet the 19-year-old tech genius coding at Ethiopia's first AI lab
Updated 0736 GMT (1536 HKT) October 11, 2018
At 19-years-old, Betelhem Dessie is perhaps the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia's fast emerging tech scene, sometimes referred to as 'Sheba Valley'.
Dessie is coordinating a number of nationwide programs run by robotics lab iCog, the Addis Ababa based artificial intelligence (AI) lab that was involved in developing the world famous Sophia the robot.
She has four software programs copyrighted solely to her name - including an app developed for the Ethiopian government to map rivers used for irrigation.South Korea wants to lift sanctions on North Korea. That could kill Trump’s nuclear plan.
What’s worse, South Korea could hurt ties with America — and help North Korea in the process.
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For years, South Korea has imposed punishing economic sanctions on its neighbor, North Korea. But on Wednesday, South Korea signaled it’s willing to lift some of those sanctions. If it does so, it’s a growing sign that the US-led campaign to pressure North Korea into dismantling its nuclear arsenal is falling apart.
According to South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, Seoul may consider lifting some sanctions to incentivize North Korea to stop developing its nuclear program. South Korea has placed financial penalties on the North, in part because of the improving nuclear program and also because North Korea killed 46 South Korean sailors in 2010.
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