Trump ignores science at dangerous indoor rally
Updated 1312 GMT (2112 HKT) September 14, 2020
President Donald Trump offered a glaring new example of his refusal to put medical science before politics with a large indoor rally Sunday night that made a mockery of social distancing, while the pandemic he mismanaged has now claimed more than 194,000 American lives.
Yoshihide Suga to be Japan's prime minister after winning party vote
Liberal Democratic party MPs vote to appoint Shinzo Abe loyalist as party leader
Yoshihide Suga is poised to become Japan’s prime minister after he was comfortably elected to lead the ruling party following the resignation of Shinzo Abe.
Liberal Democratic party (LDP) MPs from both houses of parliament and representatives from prefectural party chapters voted overwhelmingly for Suga, with the Abe loyalist emerging from the poll on Monday with 377 of the 534 votes, well ahead of Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister, with 89 votes, and Shigeru Ishiba, a former defence minister, with 68.
Arrest of Bollywood star sparks outcry over media sensationalism, misogyny
News channels, WhatsApp groups and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have played a big role in blurring the lines between fact and conjecture in this case.
Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested this week on alleged drug offenses, after months of a media frenzy that followed the death of her boyfriend and fellow actor, Sushant Singh Rajput.
Chakraborty, her brother and a member of Rajput's house staff have been detained as part of a probe by India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) into the actor's drug use, primarily the consumption of cannabis.
On Friday, a special court in Mumbai rejected the bail plea filed by Chakraborty.
Macron urges Putin to shed light on 'attempted murder' of opponent Navalny
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to urgently shed light on the "attempted murder" of opposition figure Alexei Navalny after French tests confirmed the use of the Novichok nerve agent, the Elysée said.
Macron told Putin in telephone talks that it is "imperative that all light be shed, without delay, on the circumstances of this attempted murder and who is responsible", the French presidency said in a statement.
He also informed Putin that France's own analysis had confirmed Germany's conclusion that Navalny was poisoned by Novichok "in contravention of international norms on using chemical weapons".
Australia's race against China's 'rare earths weapon'
By Eryk Bagshaw
If you have a phone, a camera or an electric car, chances are that each of these devices is wholly dependent on key minerals that, at the moment, are processed only in China.
For much of the past two decades, this has been fine: a status quo that rewarded low-cost production in China with exports around the world. The global economy was growing, more smartphones were being sold than there were people and the electric vehicle market was burgeoning.
Naomi Osaka: How a shy introvert has found her voice to become tennis' new leader
By Jonathan JurejkoBBC Sport
An Instagram story posted from a protest over the death of George Floyd was the first sign Naomi Osaka was beginning to find her voice.
After the killing of Floyd, a black man who died when a police officer kneeled on his neck for seven minutes and 46 seconds, Osaka flew to Minneapolis with her boyfriend, the rapper Cordae, to join those demonstrating their anger.
"My heart ached. I felt a call to action. Enough was finally enough," she later wrote in an article for Esquire magazine.
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