Virginia Governor Ralph Northam sorry for racist yearbook photo
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has apologised after his 1984 medical yearbook page emerged, showing a photo featuring men in racist costumes.
"I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now," he said in a statement.
Black politicians in Virginia called the image "disgusting" and Republicans urged the Democrat governor to resign.
The picture showed a man in blackface and another man in Ku Klux Klan robes.
It appeared on a page with other photos of Mr Northam as well as personal details about him.
India's jobs crisis casts shadow over Modi's re-election hopes
PM promised ‘good days are coming’ but figures show unemployment at 45-year high
India’s government has presented its final budget before this year’s national elections in the shadow of revelations that it has presided over India’s worst unemployment rate in 45 years – and tried to bury the statistics.
The weak jobs data, a financial crisis in the farming industry and declining confidence in the economy could threaten the re-election prospects of Narendra Modi, the prime minister, who campaigned five years ago on promises of putting India to work, with the slogan “Good days are coming”.
For years economists have said most Indians are under-employed and paid poorly for the work they do. Now a government survey obtained by India’s Business Standard newspaper shows that up to 6.1% are unable to find work at all.
Conflicting reports about Asia Bibi's whereabouts
The lawyer of the Pakistani Christian accused of blasphemy told a German newspaper that Bibi and her husband had arrived in Canada. Other sources insist she is still in Pakistan.
Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, has arrived in Canada with her husband, her lawyer told German media early Friday.
"She is united with her family," Saif-ul-Malook told the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungnewspaper. Bibi's two daughters already live in Canada.
The lawyer did not disclose any further details about Bibi's departure from Pakistan, citing security reasons.
After joining IS aged 15, German woman asks to go home
Four years after leaving Germany to live under the Islamic State group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the jihadists' last bastion in eastern Syria and says it's time to go home.
"I was a little bit naive," she says in English, wearing a long billowing black robe, and a beige headscarf with white spots.
US-backed forces are fighting the last IS jihadists in a final shred of territory in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, causing thousands of people to flee.
Just beyond the frontline village of Baghouz, Leonora and her two small children are among the thousands of men, women and children to have scrambled out this week.
US intelligence warns China is using student spies to steal secrets
Updated 0222 GMT (1022 HKT) February 2, 2019
In August 2015, an electrical engineering student in Chicago sent an email to a Chinese national titled "Midterm test questions."
More than two years later, the email would turn up in an FBI probe in the Southern District of Ohio involving a suspected Chinese intelligence officer who authorities believed was trying to acquire technical information from a defense contractor.
Investigators took note.
They identified the email's writer as Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese student who would go on to enlist in the US Army Reserve. His email, they say, had nothing to do with exams.
ICC orders conditional release of Ivory Coast's Gbagbo
Ex-leader stood trial for murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts committed in 2010's post-election violence.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the conditional release of former Ivory CoastPresident Laurent Gbagbo after he was cleared of charges of crimes against humanity last month.
Judges agreed on Friday to release the 73-year-old former strongman and his aide Charles Ble Goude on condition that they live in an as-yet-unspecified country pending an appeal by the prosecution.
Gbagbo and Ble Goude stood trial on four counts of crimes against humanity for murder, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts committed by pro-Gbagbo forces in the aftermath of the disputed 2010 polls.
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