Turkey demands China close camps after reports of musician's death
Turkey has called on China to close its detention camps following the reported death of a renowned musician from the ethnic Uighur minority.
Abdurehim Heyit is thought to have been serving an eight-year sentence in the Xinjiang region, where a million Uighurs are reportedly being detained.
A statement from Turkey's foreign ministry said they were being subjected to "torture" in "concentration camps".
China says the facilities are re-education camps.
The Uighurs are a Muslim Turkic-speaking minority based in the north-west Xinjiang region of China, which has come under intense surveillance by Chinese authorities.
US-backed Syrian forces launch attack on final Isis stronghold
Offensive launched against scores of besieged Isis fighters after 20,000 civilians evacuated
US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Mustafa Bali tweeted the offensive began on Saturday after more than 20,000 civilians were evacuated from the Isis-held area in the eastern province of Deir el-Zor. An SDF statement said the offensive was focused on the village of Baghuz.
The SDF, backed by US air power, has driven Isis from large swaths of territory it once controlled in northern and eastern Syria, confining the extremists to a small pocket of land near the border with Iraq.
Mass retraction of scientific studies demanded over fears research organs came from executed Chinese prisoners
'World’s silence on this barbaric issue must stop,' says Wendy Rogers, the professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney
A team of Australian researchers have called for the mass retraction of more than 400 scientific papers after a study claimed organs were unethically harvested from Chinese prisoners.
According to the study, published by the journal BMJ Open, Chinese scientists may not have followed international ethics rules over donor consent for organ transplants when carrying out the experiments using hearts, lungs or livers taken from dead prisoners.
Wendy Rogers, from Macquarie University in Sydney, said there was no real pressure from research leaders on China to be more transparent.
Broken BondThe Little-Known Tragedy of Forced Adoptions in East Germany
The East German state had a habit of taking children from politically undesirable parents and giving them up for adoption. It is a horrific aspect of the communist regime that has never received the attention it deserves. That may now be changing.
When Uwe Mai thinks about his childhood, he sees the Saale River. Bending gently, it flowed past his parents' home in Calbe just south of Magdeburg. He only had to dash across the road and down some steps to reach the riverbank, lined with big old trees to climb and rocks to skip across the water.
Mai says that he and his little brother Thomas played down by the river every day when his parents were working their shifts. His father was a steelworker in a nearby factory that was a major supplier of pig iron in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), as East Germany was officially known. His mother worked as a bus conductor.
'Beer wars': big brewers target Nigerian drinkers
Gigantic billboards advertising beer now dominate the skyline of Nigeria's megacity, Lagos, signalling the escalating battle between multinational brewers for drinkers in Africa's most populous country.
So far it's a largely untapped market, with Nigerians consuming on average just nine litres (around 16 British pints) of beer a year, well below South Africans' 57 litres, according to market research firm Euromonitor.
But with more than half of Nigeria's 190 million people aged under 30 -- and the population expected to grow to 410 million by 2050 -- the world's biggest beer companies are looking to elbow in.
Organizers to install latest surveillance system at 2020 Games
The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will install a state-of-the-art video surveillance system at venues and the athletes' village during the games in a bid to improve the efficiency of its surveillance measures.
According to the sources, the surveillance system, provided by Olympic sponsor Panasonic Corp, combines infrared ray sensors and cameras. The organizers hope the new system will allow a high level of security despite having venues spread across the country.
Organizers are planning on installing some 2,500 sets of sensors and 8,000 surveillance cameras at next year's Games, sources said.
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