Brexit: UK will not be 'trapped' in backstop, May to tell EU
Theresa May is heading to Brussels to press EU leaders for legally binding changes to the Brexit deal.
The PM will insist the UK will not be "trapped" in the backstop - the plan to avoid the return of Irish border checks whatever UK-EU trade deal is agreed.
She will say the deal must change if it is to win the support of MPs who urged her to seek "alternative arrangements" when rejecting the deal last month.
However, the EU has repeatedly ruled out changing the withdrawal agreement.
And Mrs May's visit is being overshadowed by the row over Wednesday's outburst by Donald Tusk, who declared there was a "special place in hell" for those who campaigned for Brexit without a plan to deliver it safely.
This man plotted Guaidó's rise – and still dreams of leading Venezuela
Leopoldo López led the opposition’s challenge to Maduro from house arrest but could his protege thwart his own ambitions?
by Joe Parkin Daniels in Cúcuta, Tom Phillips in Caracas and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington
When Juan Guaidó declared himself Venezuela’s interim president last month, he appeared to leapfrog a generation of rival opposition leaders and offer a dramatic way past the infighting and tactical differences that had hobbled previous efforts to unseat Nicolás Maduro.
But the rise of the fresh-faced opposition leader was orchestrated by a Harvard-educated economist with a checkered history in Venezuelan politics, who continues to direct opposition strategy and coordinate with US and regional officials from under house arrest in Venezuela.
‘Climate chaos’: Melting ice sheets will trigger extreme weather across the world, warn scientists
This unpredictability is going to prove extremely disruptive for all of us'Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent
Collapsing ice sheets at the poles are powerful symbols of a warming world, but new research suggests they may also be ramping up the global impact of climate change.
As the icy cliffs of Greenland and Antarctica thaw, scientists think the influx of water will trigger extreme weather and disrupt ocean currents across the globe.
Conventional wisdom holds that the most worrying consequence of melting polar ice will be the contribution of these enormous water stores to worldwide sea levels.
Germany's anti-trust watchdog restricts Facebook's data collection via other sites
Facebook faces restrictions in Germany on its collection of data from other sites that it owns like Whatsapp. The social media giant intends to appeal, claiming the watchdog underestimated the competition it faced.
The Federal Cartel Office, Germany's antitrust watchdog, is severely restricting the collection of user data by Facebook after a ruling on Thursday that the social media giant abused its market.
The company will only be able to use data from various non-Facebook programs and apps that it owns, such as WhatsApp and Instagram, with explicit user consent. Currently, Facebook bundles together much of the information it gleans from users across its various platforms.
Abe strikes dovish tone on Russia at islands rally
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe struck a conciliatory tone with Russia at an annual rally Thursday to demand the return of small northern isles claimed by both nations.
The conservative leader did not explicitly demand sovereignty of the Southern Kuril islands, an emotive issue that has prevented the Asian economic power from signing an official peace treaty with Moscow since World War II.
Instead, he vowed to focus on concluding an official peace treaty with Russia, after meeting President Vladimir Putin 25 times, most recently last month.
As ISIS shrinks, Syrians return home and discover a wasteland
Updated 0929 GMT (1729 HKT) February 7, 2019
Two boys in their early teens swing sledgehammers, knocking down what remains of a wall. Another is hauling pieces of woods across the rubble-strewn dirt in front of the house, or what was the house of Qais Diab Al-Sharina.
One week ago, Al-Sharina and his children returned to their former home in the town of Hajin, on the Euphrates River in eastern Syria. A coalition of US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Kurdish soldiers and Arab tribesmen liberated Hajin from the so-called Islamic State in December.
In the process, nearly every building in Hajin's centre was damaged or destroyed. "Life was hard under ISIS," said Al-Sharina, a man in his forties. "But it's still hard, harder still with this destruction." The back wall of his house has been completely demolished, and the front pocked with bullets. Every window in the house has been blown out.
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