California wildfires: Trump visits state's deadliest wildfire
US President Donald Trump has arrived in California to survey the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state's history.
The Camp Fire, in northern California, has killed at least 76 people.
More than 1,200 people have been reported missing, although officials say that figure could fluctuate.
Speaking in the town of Paradise, Mr Trump described the scene as "sad to see" and revisited his disputed claim poor forest management was to blame.
"We do have to do management maintenance and we'll be working also with environmental groups, I think everyone's seen the light," he said.
An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on
More than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 by drinking cyanide-laced punch at the order of cult leader Jim Jones
Four decades ago this Sunday, the Rev Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of an American cult in the Guyanese jungle, ordered his followers to murder a US congressman and several journalists, then commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced fruit punch.
The Jonestown massacre was, before 9/11, the largest single incident of intentional civilian death in American history. More than 900 people died, many children. It was also a devastating cultural trauma: the end of the last strains of a certain kind of 1960s idealism and 1970s radicalism. Jonestown’s legacy lives on in the ironic phrase “drink the Kool-Aid”. (In actuality it was Fla-Vor-Aid.)
French protester killed after car drove into group blocking road
Car accident kills mother as 50,000 people reportedly take part in road blockade campaign
A motorist accidentally hit and killed a protester taking part in a campaign of road blockades across France on Saturday, interior minister Christophe Castaner has said.
The campaign, organised by a group who call themselves the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests), is the latest challenge to embattled president Emmanuel Macron, triggered by opposition to rising fuel taxes.
At a blockade in Savoie, a driver reportedly panicked after seeing protesters barring the way and accelerated, hitting and killing a woman demonstrator, according to Mr Castaner.
Rybolovlev's RulesA Russian Billionaire's Monaco Fiefdom
In 2011, a Russian billionaire set out to rescue the ailing AS Monaco football club. He invested in top players and invited government, police and justice officials to matches. He handed out both gifts and jobs. Last week, however, Dmitry Rybolovlev was charged with corruption. By DER SPIEGEL Staff
Her Royal Highness' feet must have felt great. Princess Charlène, wife of Prince Albert II of Monaco, had her private secretary address a note to "Dear Mr. Rybolovlev," thanking him "for the wonderful running shoes, the sports bag and the clothes," he had sent her. She wrote that she had been "very touched" by his gesture and attention, and that she would "wear these presents with great pleasure."
Even though business in the principality isn't currently flourishing the way it was 20 years ago, it's still good enough for the court of the Grimaldis to be able to afford their own jogging shoes. Who, then, would even consider the idea of sending athletic shoes to the palace? And why would the princess express the kind of exuberant gratitude one might expect if someone had placed a tiara in a velvet box at her bedside?
Dining amid rubbish to make a point about Haiti’s elites
It’s a fancy scene: men and women dressed up to the nines, eating a good meal, drinking fine wines and taking selfies. These ‘dinners in white’ are an elegant tradition where people pay to eat outside, dressed all in white, and it exists in over 70 countries all over the world. In Haiti, one of the poorest countries on the American continent, a theatre group mocked the idea by having their own dinner in white – on a rubbish heap.
On social media, the performers wrote: “This ‘dinner in white’ was created to show the decadence of society. In a country where three quarters of the population can’t even afford to put a meal on the table, this show paints a realistic picture of our slavery through hunger.”
On social media, the performers wrote: “This ‘dinner in white’ was created to show the decadence of society. In a country where three quarters of the population can’t even afford to put a meal on the table, this show paints a realistic picture of our slavery through hunger.”
The Haiti Theatrical Intervention Brigade, a street-theatre company, performed in the city centre of Port-au-Prince on November 8. Eight actors had a ‘dinner in white’ on a street corner, with fancy food and red wine served on white tablecloths.
Bannon-Banks emails show Brexit campaigners sought US funding
Updated 0249 GMT (1049 HKT) November 18, 2018
Arron Banks, the backer of the biggest campaign behind Brexit, asked Cambridge Analytica to draw up plans for raising funds from the United States, according to a trove of leaked emails.
Correspondence obtained by CNN, and first reported by Open Democracy, shows Banks in contact with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix since in October 2015 after being introduced by US President Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon.
In an email to his associate, Andy Wigmore, Banks said he would like Cambridge Analytica to "come up with a strategy for fund raising in the States and engaging companies and special interest groups that might be affected by TTIP," a transatlantic trade deal between the US and EU, to which Bannon was hostile. It was subsequently scrapped by Trump.
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