Skripal attack: Second Russian Salisbury suspect named
The name of the second suspect in the Salisbury case is actually Alexander Mishkin, the BBC understands.
The Bellingcat investigative website says the man who travelled under the alias Alexander Petrov is in reality a military doctor working for Russian intelligence, the GRU.
Last month, Bellingcat named the first suspect as Anatoliy Chepiga, a claim rejected by Russia.
More details about how it uncovered the identity will be released on Tuesday.
Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March
'Tipping points' could exacerbate climate crisis, scientists fear
IPCC report ‘underestimates potential of these key dangers to send Earth into spiral of runaway climate change’
Key dangers largely left out of the IPCC special report on 1.5C of warming are raising alarm among some scientists who fear we may have underestimated the impacts of humans on the Earth’s climate.
The IPCC report sets out the world’s current knowledge of the impacts of 1.5C of warming and clearly shows the dangers of breaching such a limit. However, many scientists are increasingly worried about factors about which we know much less.
These “known unknowns” of climate change are tipping points, or feedback mechanisms within the climate system – thresholds that, if passed, could send the Earth into a spiral of runaway climate change.
Putin's ‘hero of Russia’ has been accused of the Skripal poisoning, but four years ago he possibly led a key attack against Ukraine. Here's what happened
Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga is thought to have played a key role in a tense and bitter siege in Belbek, a dramatic and memorable episode that encapsulated what was unfolding in Crimea in those extraordinary weeks after the street protests in Kiev
Four years ago, on the afternoon of 23 March, Russian troops with armour smashed through the walls of a Ukrainian airbase, Belbek, after a tense and bitter siege. It was the first serious military action between the two countries in Crimea not long before the territory would be annexed by the Kremlin.
I was among a group of journalists at the base reporting on the attack in which, according to recent reports, Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, one of the men accused of carrying out the novichok poisoning in Salisbury, played a key role. The operation there was one of main reasons, it is claimed, the GRU officer had received the highly prestigious “hero of Russia” award at the direct orders of Vladimir Putin.
Australia mulls blocking migrants from moving to major cities
Australia is considering measures to stop some new migrants settling in bigger cities, instead directing them to less populated areas. Canberra is looking for ways to ease congestion in places like Sydney and Melbourne.
The Australian government on Tuesday said it was looking to correct an "imbalance" in population growth by forcing some new migrants away from major cities, and toward less populous areas.
In a speech outlining the policy, Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population Alan Tudge told an audience that the strain on infrastructure in Australia's eastern cities had cost the country 25 billion Australian dollars ($17.7 billion, 15.4 billion euros) last year.
That amount was forecast to grow to 40 billion Australian dollars annually by 2040, he said.
Turkey's Erdogan demands proof missing journalist left Saudi consulate
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday asked Saudi officials to prove their claim that missing journalist and Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Erdogan's comments came after media reports said his government sought permission from Saudi authorities to search the consulate premises in Istanbul amid reports that Khashoggi had been killed.
Khashoggi, 66, a Washington Post contributor, vanished last Tuesday after entering the consulate to receive official documents ahead of his marriage to a Turkish national, Hatice Cengiz. Turkish police quickly said he never left the building as there was no security footage of his departure.
Indian schoolgirls beaten up after confronting boys over lewd drawings
Updated 2104 GMT (0504 HKT) October 8, 2018
Thirty Indian girls are recovering at a government-run boarding school in the country's eastern Bihar state after they were beat up by a group of teenage boys -- and their parents -- on Sunday.
The girls, aged 11 to 16, were playing inside the school compound in Bihar's Supaul district when the group of boys showed up and wrote "lewd messages" on the school's wall.
The girls first addressed the boys' messages in a "heated argument" that eventually turned physical, according to Mrityunjay Kumar Chaudhary, Superintendent of Police. The girls initially "overpowered" the boys, so they ran away, only to return with adult reinforcements.
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