Kazakhstan plane crash: Bek Air plane comes down near Almaty airport
A passenger jet has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 people but leaving dozens of survivors.
The Bek Air plane was flying from Almaty - Kazakhstan's largest city - to the capital Nur-Sultan when it smashed into a building just after take-off.
The Fokker aircraft had 100 passenger and crew on board. Survivors described walking from the wreckage into the dark and snow.
About 60 are being treated in hospital. The cause of the crash is unclear.
A Reuters reporter close to the scene said there was heavy fog at the time.
Mural mocking Scott Morrison for Hawaii holiday during bushfires painted over
Artist Scott Marsh says he finished the mural in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale on Tuesday, but by Friday it was gone
A mural of Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Hawaiian garb with flames around him which popped up on an inner Sydney wall has been painted over just three days after it appeared.
Artist Scott Marsh on Tuesday posted a photo of the Chippendale artwork – with Mr Morrison saying “Merry Crisis!!” via a speech bubble – on Instagram.
Fury grows after Indian police accused of shooting five Muslim men dead
Officers deny killings and claim they only used batons and tear gas against protestersZeba Siddiqui
Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch.
Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the head.
His death, and the killing by gunfire of four other Muslim men the same afternoon in the mainly Muslim neighbourhood, made it the most intense burst of violence in two weeks of protests.
India has been convulsed by the broadest unrest in at least seven years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government brought in a law that many see as discriminatory against Muslims, who make up 14 per cent of the population.
Civil unrest, Notre-Dame on fire, and stamping out sexism: 2019 in France
The year in France opened and ended with protesters out on the streets as President Emmanuel Macron scraped his way out of the Yellow Vest insurgency, only to land straight into a pension revolt. 2019 saw women battle to stamp out discrimination and abuse in football, procreation rights and everyday life. In between, the world looked on in horror as Notre-Dame Cathedral went up in smoke.
The Yellow Vest insurgency
Even by French standards, 2019 was a particularly turbulent year protest-wise. It began with the country in the throes of one of the most potent and contagious protest movements in recent French history – an unconventional insurgency that caught Parisian elites sleeping, rattling the government, baffling commentators, and eventually inspiring copy-cat protests around the world.
Japanese warship and aircraft to patrol Middle East
By Kiyoshi Takenaka
Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region, from which it sources nearly 90 per cent of its crude oil imports, remains volatile, Japan's top government spokesman said on Friday.
Under the plan approved by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet, a helicopter-equipped destroyer and two P-3C patrol planes will be dispatched for information-gathering aimed at ensuring safe passage for Japanese vessels through the region.
If there are any emergencies, a special order would be issued by the Japanese defence minister to allow the forces to use weapons to protect ships in danger.A giant red star is acting weird and scientists think it may be about to explode
By Ryan Prior, CNN
A young, bright star has been acting a little erratic lately.
The star, Betelgeuse, is suddenly dimming. It may be a sign, astronomers say, that the star is about to explode. Another possibility is the red supergiant may just be going through a phase.
Ed Guinan, an astronomy professor at Villanova University, was the lead author on a December 8 paper entitled "The Fainting of the Nearby Supergiant Betelgeuse."
He told CNN that Betelgeuse (pronounced: BAY-tel juice) been declining in brightness sharply since October, and was now about 2.5 times fainter than usual. Once the ninth brightest star in the sky, Betelgeuse has fallen now to about the 23rd brightest.
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