They survived New Zealand's volcano eruption, then went back to rescue others
Updated 0051 GMT (0851 HKT) December 12, 2019
Geoff Hopkins says he will never forget the cries as the survivors of the White Island volcano eruption were pulled aboard the boat.
Screaming in pain, with skin peeling from their faces and limbs scorched by steam and ash, the survivors were transferred from a dinghy bobbing in the water off the small island.
There was "lots of screaming. Panicked screaming," he says, recalling the injured shouting: "'Get me out of here. I'm burning. I'm burning.'"
First men go on trial under Nigeria's anti-homosexuality laws
All 47 men deny offence of same-sex displays of affection, which carries 10-year jail term
Forty-seven men went on trial in Nigeria on Wednesday for public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term in the country.
The men were among 57 arrested in a police raid on a hotel in the impoverished Egbeda district of the commercial capital, Lagos, in 2018. They pleaded innocent at a hearing last month.
Campaigners say the case is an important test of a law banning gay marriage and same-sex “amorous relationships”, which came into force five years ago.
Annual watchdog report identifies China as worst offender for jailing journalists
Number charged with ‘false news’ increases to 30 per cent
China has displaced Turkey as the most oppressive country for journalists, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
At least 250 journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2019, with China jailing 48 of those.
The report said imprisonment in China “has steadily increased since President Xi Jinping consolidated political control of the country”.
It added: ”A crackdown in Xinjiang province – where a million members of Muslim ethnic groups have been sent to internment camps – has led to the arrests of dozens of journalists, including some apparently jailed for journalistic activity years earlier.”
Aung San Suu Kyi: 'No tolerance' for human rights violations against Rohingya
The Nobel Peace laureate claims the case brought against her country was "incomplete and misleading".
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country from charges of genocide, saying there is "no tolerance" for human rights violations against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
The Nobel Peace laureate appeared before the UN's highest court for a hearing into allegations that a 2017 military campaign against the Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine state amounted to genocide.
She said the case brought against her country was "incomplete and misleading".General election 2019: Voters set to head to polls across the UK
The UK will go to the polls on Thursday for the country's third general election in less than five years.
The contest, the first to be held in December in nearly 100 years, follows those in 2015 and 2017.
Polling stations in 650 constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland open at 07:00 GMT.
After the polls close at 22:00 GMT, counting will begin straight away. Most results are due to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning.
At climate talks, Koizumi confronts critics over coal
By Valerie Volcovici
Japanese environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that global criticism of his country's "addiction to coal" was hitting home, but warned he had yet to win wider government buy-in for his hopes of weaning the country off fossil fuels.
In an unusually frank acknowledgement by Japan of growing disquiet over the country's financing of new coal-fired power plants, Koizumi, tipped as a future prime minister, told U.N. climate talks in Madrid that he was pushing for change.
"Of course I am aware of global criticism, including on our coal generating policies," Koizumi, 38, said in his speech to the conference,
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