Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou arrested in Canada
The daughter of the founder of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and deputy chair, was arrested in Vancouver on 1 December.
Details of the arrest have not been released but the US has been investigating Huawei over possible violation of sanctions against Iran.
China's embassy in Canada protested at the arrest and demanded her release.
Huawei said it had little information about the charges and was "not aware of any wrongdoing by Ms Meng".
North Korea: secret missile site revealed in new satellite images
Work continues on upgrading long-range missile sites, months after Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump to talk denuclearisation
North Korea has significantly expanded and upgraded long-range missile sites, according to satellite images published by CNN, highlighting the lack of progress in negotiations with the US in the months since Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump.
The images showed upgrades at the North’s Yeongjeo-dong and revealed another site that was previously not publicly known, both in the country’s mountainous interior. The location of the missile bases means it is likely to be a launch site for North Korea’s newest long-range missiles, including ones that can carry nuclear warheads, according to analysts who reviewed the images for CNN. It includes a network of underground tunnels used for storing missiles.
Irish parliament's lower house passes historic bill to legalise abortion
Politicians are racing to have law in place by January
The lower house of Ireland's parliament has passed historic legislation to make abortion legal for the first time, after members voted overwhelmingly in favour at the stroke of midnight on Wednesday.
The bill put before the lower house, the Dáil, would legalise free access to abortion up to 12 weeks. After that, it would permit abortion only in cases where the woman was at risk of serious harm or death, or where a doctor has given a diagnosis of a fatal foetal abnormality.
It was passed by 90 votes to 15, with 12 abstentions. According to the Irish Times, a total of 65 amendments were approved by members, but these were all brought by the minister for health himself, Simon Harris.
German artists reveal truth behind neo-Nazi doxing campaign
A group of artists said it created a website for people to denounce their neo-Nazi acquaintances. But the doxing website was actually a so-called honeypot engineered to get members of the far-right to reveal themselves.
German activists took down a controversial website on Wednesday after revealing that it was a honeypot trap to encourage neo-Nazis to reveal themselves.
A group of artists known as the Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) had previously said that their "Special Commission Chemnitz" campaign was an effort to get people to dox friends, neighbors or colleagues they saw in pictures from far-right demonstrations that took place in the city of Chemnitz earlier this year. The ZPS also promised monetary rewards for the denunciations.
One year on, the struggle to clean up Guinea’s capital continues
Fatoumata Chérif is a blogger and the founder of a clean-up movement called "Selfie-déchets" (or “Rubbish selfies”), which she launched to raise awareness about the rubbish problem in the Guinean capital. Last year we travelled to Conakry and filmed a 12-minute report looking at her campaign and the waste management issues in the country nicknamed “the pearl of Africa”.
"There is a lack of coordination and strategy”
Chérif says the issue hasn’t improved much.
Japan has so many vacant homes it's giving them away
Updated 0331 GMT (1131 HKT) December 6, 2018
Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki Ida were given a house. For free.
It's a spacious, two-story home nestled amid trees on a winding country road in the small town of Okutama, in Tokyo prefecture. Before moving, the couple and their children -- two teenagers and a five-year-old -- were all living with Naoko's parents.
"We had to do a lot of repair work (on our new home), but we'd always wanted to live in the countryside and have a big garden," said Naoko, 45.
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