Indonesia election: 'Identity-defining' poll closes
Polls have closed in Indonesia, following a bitter campaign in which religion has played a prominent role.
A series of "quick counts" are expected to give preliminary results within hours of the vote ending at 06:00 GMT.
The electoral commission will officially announce the victors in May.
Some 20,000 local and national seats were up for election, with the presidential race a re-match of the 2014 contest between incumbent Joko Widodo and ex-general Prabowo Subianto.
Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine super-highway to the US
Updated 0724 GMT (1524 HKT) April 17, 2019
Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the United States is soaring, even as the country collapses. And US and other regional officials say it's Venezuela's own military and political elite who are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country on hundreds of tiny, unmarked planes.
A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen by up to 50 % from 2017 to 2018, according to one US official - from about two flights per week in 2017 to nearly daily in 2018. This year, the same official has seen as many as five nighttime flights in the sky at once
Tiktok: India bans video sharing app
Activist group launched case against Chinese-owned app which it said encouraged paedophiles and pornography
The Indian government has ordered Google and Apple to take down the Chinese-owned Tiktok video app after a court expressed concerns over the spread of pornographic material.
Tiktok has already been banned in neighbouring Bangladesh and hit with a large fine in the United States for illegally collecting information from children.
The app, which claims to have 500 million users worldwide including more than 120 million in India, has been fighting the effort to shut it down after a high court in Chennai called for the ban on 3 April.
Voluntourism's Dark SideThe Scam of Fake Orphanages in Cambodia
Thousands of children in Cambodia live in orphanages even though their parents are still alive. Some of the institutions exist solely to make money from tourists. Now, efforts are being made to reunite the families, but that is easier said than done.
Every morning at 6:30, the boys and girls of the Little Angels orphanage in Cambodia get to work, sitting at wooden tables set up in front of the entrance to ensure that passing tourists can't miss them.
For hours at a time, they use hammers and small chisels to punch holes in pieces of leather traced with delicate patterns. No one says a word as they work -- one of the boys has earbuds in his ears. The leather creations are traditionally used in Cambodia for shadow puppet shows, but here they serve as souvenirs for tourists. The larger works sell for as much as $700.
Egypt parliament votes to extend Sisi rule until 2030
Egypt's parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved constitutional amendments allowing general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030, state media reported.
Deputies also backed other sweeping changes to the constitutionincluding to give the military greater influence in political life as well as granting Sisi more control over the judiciary.
The amendments are to be put to a public referendum whose date is to be announced on Wednesday.
"The president's current term shall expire at the end of six years from the date of his election as president in 2018," reported the official Al-Ahram news website and broadcaster Nile TV.
How One Man’s Deleted Tweet Launched a Worldwide Notre Dame Conspiracy Theory
By William.Sommer@thedailybeast.com
As politician Christopher J. Hale watched the Notre Dame cathedral burn on Monday from Washington, D.C., he heard from a Jesuit friend in Europe who claimed that the blaze had been deliberately set.
Hale, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Democrat in Tennessee last year and writes opinion columns for Time Magazine, tweeted his friend’s claim to his few thousand followers.
"A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set,” Hale wrote.
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