Indonesia tsunami caused by collapse of volcano
Expert confirmation comes as officials say country needs new tsunami early warning system
The deadly tsunami in Indonesia was triggered by a chunk of the Anak Krakatau volcano slipping into the ocean, officials have confirmed, amid calls for a new early warning system that can detect volcanic eruptions.
At least 373 people were killed and many buildings were heavily damaged when the tsunami struck, almost without warning, along the rim of the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands late on Saturday.
Anak Krakatau had been spewing ash and lava for months before a 64-hectare (158-acre) section of its south-west side collapsed, an Indonesian official said. “This caused an underwater landslide and eventually caused the tsunami,” said Dwikorita Karnawati, the head of the meteorological agency.
Gatwick drone investigation: Former suspects hit out at ‘disgusting’ accusation in tearful statement
Elaine Kirk and Paul Gait say they are receiving medical care after feeling ‘completely violated’
The couple who were arrested over the drone activity that prompted days of chaos at Gatwick Airport have hit out at the “disgusting” accusations they faced.
Around 1,000 flights affecting some 140,000 passengers were cancelled or diverted across three days after drones were spotted inside the perimeter of the UK’s second biggest airport on Wednesday.
Paul Gait, 47 and his wife Elaine Kirk, 54, were detained in connection with the drone activity and later released without charge.
N. Korea blasts UN resolution on rights abuse
North Korea on Tuesday hit back at a latest UN resolution that condemned Pyongyang's rights abuses, calling it a "serious... provocation" that would undermine peace efforts on the Korean peninsula.
The UN General Assembly adopted last week a resolution -- which passed by consensus without a vote -- condemning the "systematic, widespread and gross" human rights violations in the isolated North.
The impoverished but nuclear-armed nation, ruled by the Kim family through three generations, has been accused of state-sanctioned abuses including torture, rape and extrajudicial killings.
It marked the 14th consecutive year the UN has passed such a document. The North has constantly denied any rights abuses in the country and labelled the UN criticisms as smear campaigns aimed at undermining its leadership.
A child calling Santa reached the military instead. Christmas Eve was never the same
By Steve Hendrix
US Colonel Harry Shoup was a real by-the-book guy.
At home, his two daughters were limited to phone calls of no more than three minutes (monitored by an egg timer) and were automatically grounded if they missed curfew by even a minute. At work, during his 28-year Air Force career, the decorated fighter pilot was known as a no-nonsense commander and a stickler for rules.
Which makes what happened that day in 1955 even more of a Christmas miracle.
It was a December day in Colorado Springs when the phone rang on Shoup's desk. Not the black phone, the red phone.
'Your skin colour was a crime': African migrants in Algeria
Sub-Saharan migrants tell stories of horror, activists note that forced deportation from Algeria is an ongoing trend.
In 1991, Michael George Johnson was 11 years old when he left his country for the first time.
Both his parents were killed months earlier in one of post-independence Africa's worst instances of bloodshed, the Liberian civil war.
Johnson spent the following 27 years searching for a safe place to settle and trying to leave the ghosts of the conflict behind. One day - at the beginning of October - he arrived in Niger, having survived a week-long, forced trip through the Algerian desert.
Tokyo, Seoul clash over S Korean warship's fire-control radar lock-on
Japanese and South Korean officials on Monday clashed over what Tokyo alleges was a South Korean warship's directing of its fire-control radar onto a Japanese patrol plane in the Sea of Japan, in the latest sign of a deterioration in bilateral ties.
Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, said he told his South Korean counterpart Kim Yong Kil during their meeting in Seoul that the incident on Thursday was regrettable and urged South Korea to take steps to prevent similar cases from happening.
The South Korean side, however, complained about Japan's claim, saying that Tokyo is "making a case without clear confirmation of facts," according to a South Korean Foreign Ministry official.
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