Image copyright EPA Image caption Will Connolly won support online for breaking an egg on Australian lawmaker Fraser Anning An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a controversial far-right senator’s head says he has given almost A$100,000 (£55,000; $69,000) to survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks. Will Connolly, 17, egged Fraser Anning in March […]
Image copyright Getty Images A US move to put Huawei on a trade blacklist “sets a dangerous precedent” that will harm billions of consumers, the firm’s top legal officer said. Speaking at a press conference, Song Liuping said the trade ban would also “directly harm” American companies and affect jobs. Washington recently added Huawei to […]
Media captionJapan knife attack: “I saw children screaming and crying” A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in the Japanese city of Kawasaki near Tokyo. At least 18 people were injured in a residential area. Two of them, an 11-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man, have died. A suspect, […]
Media captionFour defectors talk about what life is like in North Korea North Koreans face a daily struggle to make ends meet due to a “vicious cycle of deprivation, corruption and repression”, a new report says. The United Nations human rights report also accuses Kim Jong-un’s government of economic mismanagement, leaving its people fighting to […]
Image copyright Save the Rhino International Image caption The Sumatran rhino is down to fewer than 100 animals, including this female, Rosa The future of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino has been struck a blow, with the death of Malaysia’s last male. The rhino once roamed across much of Asia, but has now almost disappeared […]
Image caption The clinic and other Hindu-owned shops were targeted by the mob, witnesses said A Hindu veterinary doctor in south-east Pakistan has been charged under the country’s strict blasphemy laws after allegedly selling medicine wrapped in paper bearing Islamic religious text. An angry crowd set fire to his clinic near Mirpur Khas, Sindh province, […]
Image copyright Seven Network Australia Image caption Elisha Greer was held for a month by Marcus Allyn Keith Martin An Australian man who raped a British backpacker during a month-long kidnapping ordeal in outback Queensland has been jailed for 10 years. Marcus Allyn Keith Martin, 25, had pleaded guilty to charges of rape and deprivation […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Emergency services at the scene of a reported mass stabbing in Kawasaki, Japan A group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus have been attacked by a knife-wielding man in a Japanese city just south of Tokyo. At least 16 people were injured in the attack in Kawasaki and two of […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Abe (R) and Mr Trump tackled the thorny subjects of trade and Iran in their meeting US President Donald Trump has backed a possible face-to-face meeting between the leaders of Japan and North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Mr Trump pledged “full support” to the proposed meeting, […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Abe (R) and Mr Trump tackled the thorny subjects of trade and Iran in their meeting US President Donald Trump has backed a possible face-to-face meeting between the leaders of Japan and North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Mr Trump pledged “full support” to the proposed meeting, […]
