Trump invited to attend impeachment hearing or 'stop complaining'
Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Mr Trump could either attend or "stop complaining about the process".
If he does attend, the president would be able to question witnesses.
It would mark the next stage in the impeachment inquiry, which centres on a July phone call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In that call, President Trump asked Mr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, currently the front runner to be the Democratic candidate in next year's presidential election, and his son Hunter Biden, who had previously worked for Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
TikTok 'makeup tutorial' conceals call to action on China's treatment of Uighurs
Teenager claims video sharing platform is censoring her posts, which TikTok denies
A US teenager who is using makeup tutorials on TikTok to spread awareness of China’s detention of at least a million Muslims in internment camps in Xinjiang has claimed her videos are being censored by the platform.
In a three-part series that has gone viral on the international version of the Chinese short video-sharing platform, Feroza Aziz begins by appearing to show viewers how to use an eyelash curler.
She instructs: “Then you’re going to put [the eyelash curler] down and use your phone … to search up what’s happening in China, how they’re getting concentration camps, throwing innocent Muslims in there, separating families from each other, kidnapping them, murdering them, raping them, forcing them to eat pork, forcing them to drink, forcing them to convert.”
Malta: Ministers quit as journalist murder probe heats up
Two ministers and Malta's chief of staff have quit but deny wrongdoing. Police intensified investigations into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, following the recent arrest of businessman Yorgen Fenech.
Two ministers in the Maltese government resigned shortly after the Maltese police announced it would be questioning more people to determine who was behind the car bombing that killed investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi resigned and Economy Minister Chris Cardona said he was "suspending" himself, according to a government statement on Tuesday.
Their resignations came just hours after Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the press that his chief of staff, Keith Schembri, had also thrown in the towel.
The Economist, from free trade to annexing China
The imperial magazine
by Alexander Zevin
When James Wilson launched The Economist, in 1843, he promised ‘original leading articles in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day’. His language conjures up images of a crusade more readily than a business journal. Abroad he saw ‘within the range of our commercial intercourse whole continents and islands, on which the light of civilization has scarce yet dawned’; at home, ‘ignorance, depravity, immorality and irreligion, abounding to an extent disgraceful to a civilized country’. In both cases the civilizing medium was free trade, which ‘we seriously believe will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilization and morality — yes, to extinguish slavery itself’.
UN says drastic action is only way to avoid worst effects of climate change
Countries need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they've agreed for limiting global warming, with potentially dire consequences, senior United Nations officials say.
A report by the UN Environment Program, published days before governments gather in Madrid for an annual meeting on climate change, showed the amount of planet-heating gases being pumped into the atmosphere hitting a new high last year, despite a near-global pledge to reduce them.
Manga on Uighur woman's testimony of torture in China goes viral
A manga by a Japanese artist based on the testimony of a Uighur woman who says she was detained and tortured in China after giving birth abroad has gone viral on social media.
Titled “What has Happened to Me,” the work by Tomomi Shimizu, 50, illustrates the account of the Uighur woman, who upon returning to China after giving birth to triplets in Egypt was detained and tortured on three separate occasions between 2015 and 2017.
The manga, which has received around 2.5 million views and over 86,000 retweets since it was posted on Twitter in late August, has since been translated and distributed in multiple languages, including English, Chinese and Uighur.
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