Shaking off three consecutive defeats, the United States recaptured the Ryder Cup on Sunday, ripping Europe 17-11 for their most decisive triumph since 1981 in the biennial team golf showdown.
     Cup newcomer Ryan Moore, selected with a captain's pick only a week earlier, won the last three holes to defeat England's Lee Westwood 1-up and secure the trophy by giving the Americans an unbeatable edge in a tension-packed test at Hazeltine.
     "To score the clinching point in the Ryder Cup is just incredible," Moore said. "I can't digest what just happened. I was trying my hardest not to let my team down."
     Moore was 2-down before an eagle at 16, birdie at 17 and conceded par at 18, admitting, "I just wanted to hit a couple of good shots coming in."
     Earlier singles triumphs by Patrick Reed, Rickie Fowler, Brandt Snedeker and rookie Brooks Koepka plus a vital half point from Phil Mickelson had put the US team on the brink.
     "We've got a memory and life experience that we ...

USA rips Europe 17-11 to end Ryder Cup drought

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Atletico Madrid moved top of La Liga on Sunday as Celta Vigo edged Barcelona in a 4-3 thriller, whilst Real Madrid's run of draws stretched to four against Eibar on Sunday.
     Three goals in 11 first-half minutes sentenced a Barca side once again without the injured Lionel Messi as Pione Sisto, Iago Aspas and a Jeremy Mathieu own goal put Celta in command.
     Gerard Pique and a Neymar penalty reduced Barca's deficit. However, a Marc-Andre ter Stegen howler teed up Pablo Hernandez to restore Celta's two-goal lead before Pique headed in his second late on.
     Real Madrid remain two points ahead of the champions, but were booed off at the Santiago Bernabeu after a 1-1 draw against the Basque minnows.
     Atletico lead their city rivals on goal difference at the top of the table despite missing two penalties as Antoine Griezmann and Kevin Gameiro netted in a 2-0 win at Valencia.
     Barca boss Luis Enrique's heaviest defeat in charge came in a 4-1 hammering at the hands of Celta ..

Barca defeat and Real draw sends Atletico top

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The Ninjas fought two civil wars in the 1990s and were headed by Protestant preacher Bintsamou.

Congo train attack kills 14 including children

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The Taliban launched an assault on Kunduz in northern Afghanistan early today, one year after briefly taking over the city in a lightning offensive.
	The attack began in the early hours at the southern and eastern approaches to the city where the Islamist militants were engaged in battles with government forces, he said.

Afghan city of Kunduz under Taliban attack

Brazil's Workers' Party lost control of Sao Paulo city hall in a nationwide municipal polls rout that saw the long dominant leftist force punished by voters angry at recession and corruption.
	   In a shock result, the Workers' Party mayor of Brazil's biggest city, Fernando Haddad, was trounced by Joao Doria from the centrist PSDB yesterday. A second round runoff had been widely predicted but Doria cleared the required 50 percent barrier with 53 percent of the vote, meaning he won outright.
	   The loss of Sao Paulo headlined a dark day for the Workers' Party, which shaped Brazil for the last 13 years but risks freefall as Brazilians shift to the right ahead of 2018 presidential elections.
	   "It's a very hard defeat for the Workers' Party," said Michael Mohallem, a politics expert at the Getulia Vargas Foundation. "The question is how hard it would be -- and it was very hard."
	   The elections for mayors and city governments across 5,568 municipalities in Latin America's biggest ...

Brazil's leftist Workers' Party loses control of Sao Paulo

- Cape Verde's President Jorge Carlos Fonseca won a landslide victory in a nation hailed as a model for African democracy, sweeping nearly three quarters of the vote, partial results showed.
	Without a strong challenger for the top post, Fonseca won a whopping 73 percent of the vote yesterday, with independent candidates Albertino Graca and Joaquim Monteiro taking just 23 and three percent of the ballots each.
	Winning with such a large margin, Fonseca, 77, should be able to avoid a run-off.
	Abstention soared however in the Atlantic archipelago at 60 percent, according to partial results released late Sunday, with 80 percent of the votes counted.
	Fonseca's win was by no means a surprise, after his liberal Movement for Democracy (MFD) enjoyed a string of landslide victories this year.
	Fonseca had called on supporters to "say yes to freedom, justice and Cape Verde" and re-elect him for another five-year term, urging voters not to give in to fatigue caused by other electoral contests .

President Fonseca wins second term in Cape Verde vote

The Bosnian town of Srebrenica, known for the wartime massacre of 8,000 Muslims by Serb forces, looked set to get its first Serb mayor in 17 years after elections.
	A Muslim war criminal was also poised to become mayor in the northwestern town of Velika Kladusa following the poll, which came at a time of renewed tensions in the fragile country.
	Based on a preliminary vote count in Srebrenica, 34-year-old Mladen Grujicic declared victory over his Muslim opponent yesterday and said people had shown "they want changes".
	If confirmed, Grujicic's victory would make him the town's first Serb leader since 1999, although his rival and the incumbent mayor Camil Durakovic said it was too soon to declare with postal votes not yet counted.
	Srebrenica today is a microcosm of Bosnia, with Muslims and Serbs living side by side but by no means together -- still distrustful more than two decades after Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, which claimed 100,000 lives and displaced two million people.
	Grujicic ...

Bosnian Serb declares victory in Srebrenica

Scoreboard of the second day-night
international between Pakistan and West Indies played at Sharjah stadium today:
	   West Indies
	   J. Charles c Wasim b Amir               2
	   K. Brathwaite run out                  39
	   D. Bravo run out                       61
	   M. Samuels b Riaz                      57
	   D. Ramdin b Riaz                       34
	   K. Pollard c Malik b Wasim             22
	   C. Brathwaite run out                  14
	   J. Holder not out                      31
	   S. Narine not out                       1
	   Extras: (lb8, w9)                      17
	   Total: (for seven wkts; 50 overs)     278
	   Did not bat: S. Benn, A. Joseph
	   Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Charles), 2-92 (K. Brathwaite), 3-127 (Bravo), 4-194 (Samuels), 5-209 (Ramdin), 6-231 (C. Brahwaite), 7-273 (Pollard)
	   Bowling: Wasim 10-0-62-1, Amir 9-0-49-1 (2w), Hasan 9-0-56-0 (2w), Riaz 10-0-48-2 (3w), Malik 5-2-16-0, Nawaz 7-0-39-0 (2w)
	   Result: Pakistan win by 59 runs.

Sharjah, Oct 2 (AFP) Scoreboard of the second day-night

Fast-rising Babar Azam cracked a second successive hundred to guide Pakistan to a dominant 59-run win over the West Indies in the second one-day international in Sharjah, gaining an unbeatable 2-0 lead in three-match series.
	Azam's brilliant 126-ball 123 formed the cornerstone of Pakistan's imposing 337-5 which also featured half-centuries from Shoaib Malik and Sarfraz Ahmed.
	West Indies finished on 278-7 from their 50 overs with Darren Bravo hitting 61 and Marlon Samuels scoring 57.
	The final match will be in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
	"It was a wonderful team effort," said Pakistan captain Azhar Ali.
	"We needed a good partnership after losing two early wickets and Azam and Malik gave that to us with pace and wisdom."
	West Indian captain Jason Holder rued his team's bad bowling.
	"I think we didn't bowl as well as we would have wanted and in the end 330-plus was too much for us," said Holder.
	West Indies needed to improve on their best chase of 285 against Pakistan which came in .

Ton-up Babar Azam anchors Pakistan's series win

52 dead in Ethiopia stampede: regional government. (AFP)

A Dutch journalist was killed today while covering a government-backed offensive against the Islamic State group in their Libyan stronghold city of Sirte, a doctor said.
	Dr Akram Gliwan, spokesman for a hospital in Misrata where pro-government fighters are treated, told AFP that photographer Jeroen Oerlemans was "shot in the chest by an IS sniper while covering battles in Sirte" 450 kilometres east of Tripoli.
	Gliwan said his body had been transferred to Misrata, 200 kilometres west of Sirte.
	Oerlemans was working in Libya for a number of organisations, including the Belgian weekly Knack magazine, which confirmed his death.
	A message on Knack's website said Oerlemans was shot on a reporting assignment and that the publication "wishes his family much strength".
	Forces allied with Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord launched an assault against the jihadist bastion in May.
	IS fighters holed up in Sirte, the birthplace of ousted Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, responded .

Dutch journalist killed in fighting in Libya's Sirte: medic

One Turkish policeman was killed and two soldiers wounded today after three rockets fired from an area in Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists hit the border town of Kilis, the provincial governor's office said.
	The three rockets caused no initial damage when they hit an empty area in the centre of the Turkish town, which has been repeatedly struck by rockets fired from Syria over the last months.
	However the policeman was killed and two soldiers wounded when they went to destroy the unexploded ordnance, which blew up, the Kilis governor's office said in a statement.
	The Turkish army meanwhile said it responded to the rocket attack with artillery fire according to the rules of engagement.
	The strikes come 40 days into an unprecedented incursion into Syria by Turkish forces aimed at rooting IS jihadists and Kurdish militia from the border area.
	The necessity of ending cross border rocket strikes like the latest attacks on Kilis was one of the reasons given by the ...

One killed after rockets from Syria hit Turkish town

Guatemalan police today detained 50 migrants en route to the United States who said they were from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	Police spokesman Jorge Aguilar told reporters that the migrants were stopped at a station where buses headed to the Mexican border depart from.
	The detainees were transferred to migration authorities for repatriation procedures, Aguilar said.
	The day before, police detained another 18 migrants who said they were African, without providing specific nationalities. Last Wednesday police arrested another 23 migrants from the DRC.
	The International Organization for Migration recently has said many Haitians passing through Central America are currently trying to pass themselves off as DRC nationals, in hopes it will boost their chances for US asylum.
	Migration statistics indicate that some 1,000 Africans have been intercepted in Guatemala this year, compared to just 13 in 2015.

50 US-bound migrants arrested in Guatemala

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a blow today in his referendum against the EU's migrant quota plan after he failed to rally enough votes to reach the required 50 percent turnout, according to the first polls from the ruling Fidesz party.
	A whopping 95 percent of voters supported Orban's 'No' camp, but only 45 percent of the eight-million-strong electorate cast their ballots, making the vote invalid, according to figures released by the party's deputy chief Gergely Gulyas.
	Gulyas nonetheless saw the result as "a sweeping victory for all those who reject the relocation plan, for those who believe that only nation states should remain, and for those who believe in democracy."
	Orban had earlier downplayed the significance of the low turnout and said there would be "legal consequences" regardless, without giving further details.
	His right-wing government led an expensive media offensive urging voters to spurn the EU's quota plan, which aims to share migrants around the ..

Low turnout voids 'No' win in Hungary anti-migrant vote

Syrian regime forces advanced today in Aleppo after Russia unleashed dozens of strikes, even as condemnation kept pouring in over the bombing of the main hospital in the city's rebel-held east.
	The devastating five-year war in Syria has ravaged second city Aleppo, once the country's economic hub but now torn apart between government troops and rebel forces.
	The army of President Bashar al-Assad announced a major push on September 22 to capture Aleppo's opposition-held east and has gained ground in the city with the help of its ally Moscow.
	Dozens of Russian air strikes pounded battlefronts in the devastated city overnight, according to AFP's correspondent and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
	Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the raids "helped regime forces to advance in the north of the city," where they reached the outskirts of the opposition-held Al- Heluk district.
	If loyalist fighters seize Al-Heluk, Bustan al-Basha and Sakhur - all ...

Syria army advances as outrage mounts over hospital raid

Scores in the second one-day
international between South Africa and Australia at the Wanderers Stadium today.
     South Africa
	Q. De Kock c Tremain b Hastings           22
	R. Rossouw c sub (Worrall) b Hastings     75
	F. Du Plessis c Smith b Marsh            111
	J. Duminy b Marsh                         82
	D. Miller c Zampa b Marsh                 26
	F. Behardien c Warner b Hastings          13
	W. Parnell not out                         8
	A. Phehlukwayo not out                    13
	Extras: (LB-1, W-10)                      11
     Total: (6 wickets, 50 overs)              361
     Fall of wickets: 1-70, 2-146, 3-296, 4-308
     Bowling: Tremain 10-0-78-1, Mennie 10-0-82-0, Hastings 10-0-57-3, Marsh 10-0-68-2 , Zampa 8-0-54-0, Head 2-0-21-0.

Johannesburg, Oct 2 (AFP) Scores in the second one-day

Delegates at a global wildlife conference today voted to ban international trade in African grey parrots, one of the world's most trafficked birds.
	Prized for their ability to mimic human speech, the birds are a highly sought-after pet, but their numbers have been decimated in recent years by poaching and the destruction of their forest habitats.
	The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Johannesburg voted 95 to 35 in a secret poll to ban the global commercial trade of the parrot.
	CITES said the vote result would give the African grey the "highest level of protection" by listing it in "appendix 1", which outlaws all international trade in animals facing possible extinction.
	Dr Colman O'Criodain of conservation group WWF called the move "a huge step forward" in protecting the bird.
	"Fraud and corruption have enabled traffickers to vastly exceed current quotas and continue to harvest unsustainable numbers of African grey parrots from Congo's ...

Global trade in African grey parrots banned

Hollywood action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger rode into trouble in Germany when he got told off by police for cycling through Munich station, only to be let off with a warning - and a selfie.
	The 69-year-old former California governor and his bodyguard readily admitted their mistake after they were stopped by an officer on Friday for failing to get off their bikes while inside the train station, federal police said in a statement.
	The star of the "Terminator" movies said he was having trouble walking and offered to pose for a picture with the officer to make up for the mistake, it added.
	The selfie of the smiling officer and the sunglasses-clad actor was then proudly shared on Bayern police's Twitter feed (@bpol_by) yesterday.
	"Cycling forbidden in Munich central station -- even for the Terminator," read the caption.

'Off your bike, Terminator': Arnie runs into German police

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's company has sold the luxury Four Seasons hotel in Toronto for USD 170 million, it said today.
	Kingdom Holding Company said it sold the hotel for 225 million Canadian dollars to Shahid Khan, the Pakistani- American businessman who founded auto parts maker Flex-N-Gate and owns English Premier League club Fulham.
	KHC said it had made a profit of 17 million Canadian dollars from the sale of the hotel, which it bought four years ago for 200 million Canadian dollars.
	"This transaction marks yet another success for KHC's value realisation strategy from our high-quality hospitality investments," said Prince Alwaleed.
	"We are particularly pleased to be passing ownership of this property to Mr. Shahid Khan who is known for his passion for the Four Seasons brand," he said in a statement.
	"Kingdom continues to be a stakeholder in this asset through our interest in the management company Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts which will continue to ...

Saudi billionaire sells Toronto Four Seasons

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte today apologised to Jews for comparing himself with Adolf Hitler but said he did nothing wrong and reiterated his desire to kill millions of drug addicts.
	Duterte, whose bloody war on crime had already drawn international condemnation, sparked fresh outrage on Friday when he likened his deadly crime war with Hitler's efforts to exterminate Jews.
	Duterte said he was merely reacting to critics who drew comparisons between him and the Nazi leader.
	"So I said, 'sure I am Hitler, but the ones I will kill are these (drug addicts)'," Duterte said in a speech broadcast on national television.
	"But it is not really that I said something wrong. But rather they do not really want to tinker with the memory so I apologise profoundly and deeply to the Jewish (people).
	"It was never my intention but the problem was I was criticised using Hitler, comparing to me. But I was very emphatic. I will kill the three million."
	Duterte, 71, won elections in May in a .

Philippines' Duterte apologises to Jews, but defiant

Brazilians furious at recession and corruption are expected to punish the long dominant Workers' Party in municipal elections today amid heightened security after a series of murders of candidates.
	The main battles in the first round of the nationwide polls are in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil's economic capital Sao Paulo, where the incumbent Workers' Party mayor, Fernando Haddad, risks being knocked out.
	That beating for the left is expected to extend through much of the Latin American giant.
	"The mayors' posts held by the Workers' Party will fall to less than half of those they won four years ago," political analyst David Fleischer at Brasilia University said, predicting "disaster for the party."
	Brazilians want change as they struggle through a devastating recession and the fallout from a massive embezzlement and bribery scheme centered on prestigious state oil company Petrobras.
	The polls also come just weeks after Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party was thrown out of the ...

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