The family of the African- American man whose death has triggered days of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, released a dramatic video of the police shooting yesterday, raising pressure on the authorities to make their own footage public.
	The police have refused to release body-cam and dash-cam video of the shooting Tuesday, which they say shows Keith Lamont Scott posed officers a threat.
	His death is the latest in a string of police-involved killings of black men that have fueled outrage across America.
	Charlotte has been rocked by three nights of violence-marred protests, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency in the southern US city.
	Hundreds of protesters were out again yesterday calling for the release of the videos amid a greater presence of National Guard troops, but the atmosphere was calmer than during previous days.
	A curfew beginning at midnight is in effect for a second night after protesters defied the order on Thursday.
	Hundreds of demonstrators ..

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Former prime minister David Cameron's chief of staff has been appointed Britain's ambassador to France, the Foreign Office announced.
	Cameron resigned in July after failing to keep Britain in the European Union in the June referendum.
	But now his closest adviser Ed Llewellyn will play a diplomatic role in the negotiations for Britain's departure from the bloc as London's representative in Paris.
	Llewellyn will take up his post in Paris in December.
	"He will help us make a great success of Brexit while ensuring that Britain is more engaged in the continent of Europe than ever," Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday.
	Llewellyn will succeed Julian King, who was recently appointed as the European commissioner for security on the European Union's executive body.
	"I look forward to representing British interests and to building on the very strong relations our country has with France," Llewellyn said.
	"As we embark on a new chapter with the UK's departure from the EU, I will 

Cameron aide made Britain's ambassador to France

At least four people were killed and an unknown number wounded today during a shooting at a mall in the state of Washington, with the suspect still on the run, police said.
	Washington State Patrol District 7 spokesman Sergeant Mark Francis described the suspect in the shooting at Cascade Mall in Burlington, in the US Pacific Northwest state as a "Hispanic male wearing grey."
	"EMS starting to enter to attend to injured inside Mall w/ police escort and after initial clearance," Francis said on Twitter shortly before 8:30 PM Friday (0800 IST Saturday), referring to emergency medical services.
	"Once EMS gets in, holding out hope that the number confirmed goes down.

At least 4 dead at shooting at Washington state mall: police

Just weeks after carrying out its fifth nuclear test, North Korea put on an unprecedented civilian and military air force display today at the country's first ever public aviation show.
	The two-day Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival was held at the newly refurbished Kalma Airport -- previously a military airfield -- completed last year to boost tourism in the area around the eastern port city of Wonsan.
	The festival was already scheduled before North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on September 9, triggering international outrage and threats of still further sanctions against the deeply isolated nuclear-armed country.
	The show kicked off with an aerial display by a US Hughes MD-500 military helicopter -- one of a number acquired in the 1980s by using a third country to circumvent US export restrictions.
	North Korea's aviation industry was targeted by provisions in the UN Security Council resolution passed after its fourth nuclear test on January 6.
	The provisions 

N Korea air show thumbs nose at sanctions

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney's place in the starting line-up is not a cast iron certainty, said club manager Jose Mourinho.
     The 31-year-old England skipper -- who on Thursday had said he didn't pay any attention to outside criticism of his form -- has failed to sparkle and was anonymous in the two Premier League defeats United suffered last week.
     Mourinho, who himself has been subjected to criticism after United slumped to three successive defeats last week -- his worst run since 2002 -- would not, unlike his predecessor Louis van Gaal, guarantee Rooney a starting place.
     "Wayne is the captain of the club, the manager and the players -- he is trusted by the players, he is trusted by myself and he represents the club in a fantastic way as a player and person and what is now socially," said Mourinho.
     "Football is a different story.
     "Football everyone is the same and if he has to go on the bench, he goes on the bench.
     "If he has to stay at home, he .

Rooney's place not sacrosanct, says Mourinho

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Scoreboard of the first Twenty20 between Pakistan and the West Indies played at Dubai stadium on Friday:
	   West Indies
	   J. Charles b Nawaz              7
	   E. Lewis c Nawaz b Wasim        1
	   A. Fletcher b Wasim             2
	   M. Samuels lbw b Wasim          4
	   D. Bravo c Umar b Tanvir       55
	   N. Pooran c Ahmed b Ali         5
	   K. Pollard b Wasim              9
	   C. Brathwaite c Latif b Wasim   0
	   S. Narine run out               1
	   J. Taylor b Tanvir             21
	   S. Badree not out               1
	   Extras: (lb 2, nb 2, w5)        9
	   Total (all out; 19.5 overs)   115
	   Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Lewis), 2-11 (Fletcher), 3-15 (Samuels), 4-17 (Charles), 5-22 (Pooran), 6-47 (Pollard), 7-47 (Brathwaite), 8-48 (Narine), 9-114 (Taylor)
	   Bowling: Wasim 4-0-14-5, Tanvir 3.5-0-26-2 (2w), Nawaz 4-0-16-1, Hasan 3-0-32-1 (1nb, 1w), Malik 1-0-5-0,(1w) Riaz 4-1-20-0(1nb, 1w)
	   Pakistan
	   Sharjeel Khan b Badree         22
	   Khalid Latif not out          

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Left-arm spinner Imad Wasim took a career best five for 14 to help Pakistan defeat world Twenty20 champions West Indies by nine wickets in the first match in Dubai today.
	Wasim's spin assault routed the West Indies for a low score of 115 in 19.5 overs which Pakistan surpassed in 14.2 overs to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
	Dwayne Bravo hit a gritty half-century to avoid a total disaster, adding a new world record Twenty20 stand of 66 runs for the ninth wicket with Jerome Taylor who made 21.
	Pakistan had lost opener Sharjeel Khan for 22 in the fourth over but Babar Zaman (55 not out) and Khalid Latif (34 not out) ensured the target was chased down comfortably.
	Babar hit two consecutive fours to bring up the victory, overall hitting two sixes and six boundaries in his 37-ball knock.
	Earlier, Bravo scored a 54-ball 55 for his fourth half-century and lifted the world champions from a precarious 48-8 in 11.3 overs before being bowled off the penultimate ball.
	Wasim made ..

Cricket: Wasim leads Pakistan's rout of West Indies

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Russian opposite number today and made what he said was "a little bit of progress" on resolving their differences over the Syrian crisis.
	"We're evaluating some mutual ideas in a constructive way, period," Kerry told reporters at the United Nations, one day after international envoys failed to find a way to revive a US and Russian-brokered truce.
	Kerry and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have met several times this week in New York, including yesterday as joint chairs of the 23-nation International Syria Support Group (ISSG).
	But they have failed to agree on a way to revive the deal that they had reached in Geneva on September 9, under which Moscow would ensure its ally Bashar al-Assad honors a ceasefire and Washington would rein in Syrian rebels.
	Both men are due to leave the city later today but there has been no sign of an agreement, with Kerry demanding that Moscow order Syria's air force to be grounded and Lavrov accusing .

Kerry says 'bit of progress' with Lavrov on Syria

A court in Rome has handed down an unusual penalty to the client of an underage prostitute, ordering him to buy her 30 books on the theme of women's dignity, Italian media reported today.
	In addition to a two-year jail sentence, the unnamed man, 35, will be required to give the 15-year-old victim works including novels by Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank's diary and the poems of Emily Dickinson, as well as two feminist-themed films.
	Judge Paola Di Nicola's ruling follows an investigation launched in 2013 into a Rome-based prostitution ring that pimped two girls aged 14 and 15 in the upmarket Parioli suburb of the Italian capital.
	The teenagers were lured into the world of sex work with cash which they used to "buy new clothes and the latest mobile phones", reports said, citing investigators.
	In the 2014 trial of the sex ring's mastermind, who was ultimately jailed for nine years, a judge said the girls were "children who got carried away with the debauchery, without restraint, so they ..

Italy orders man to buy feminist books for underage prostitute

Russia has sentenced an elderly decorated space engineer and university instructor to seven years in prison for state treason, an official said today.
	Vladimir Lapygin was sentenced to seven years on charges of state treason, a spokesman for Moscow City Court told AFP, without giving details.
	"The verdict was pronounced on September 6," he said, adding that the entire case was "top secret."
	Russian agencies said Lapygin taught at Moscow's Bauman State Technical Institute. Information on the university's page suggested he advised graduate students in the mechanical engineering department.
	Lapygin is also an employee of Tsniimash, the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, which develops rockets and is administered by the Roscosmos space agency.
	In 2014 he received a medal for his contributions to Russia's economy and defence capabilities.
	Russian media said Lapygin is in his late 70s and spent months under house arrest after his initial detention in May 2015. Lapygin was 

Russia jails space engineer for 7 years for treason

Missiles rained down on rebel-held areas of Syria's Aleppo today, causing widespread destruction that overwhelmed rescue teams, as the army prepared a ground offensive to retake the city.
	Nearly 30 civilians including several children were killed and dozens wounded in the raids by Russian warplanes and regime aircraft, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said.
	The intensity of the bombardment, which included artillery barrages and barrel bombings by helicopters, brought new misery to the estimated 250,000 civilians besieged by the army.
	The escalation came after US Secretary of State John Kerry failed to reach an agreement with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on terms to salvage a failed ceasefire.
	Asked by reporters at the United Nations whether the truce could be reinstated, Lavrov simply said: "You should ask the Americans."
	A US official told AFP that no Kerry-Lavrov meeting had yet been scheduled for Friday, "but that could ...

Missiles batter Aleppo as Syria army readies ground assault

A man who lived as a goat in the Alps and a scientist who studied how pants affect the sex drive of rodents are among this year's spoof Nobel prizes.
	The 26th edition of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes, which celebrate the silly side of science, were handed out today at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	The prizes aim to "celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology," organizers said of the event, which featured a traditional onstage paper airplane toss.
	The top honor in the reproduction category went to the late Ahmed Shafik from Cairo University, who died in 2007, for his work that showed how the sex lives of rats are affected by the fabric of pants they are fitted with.
	Published in 1993, the study concluded that rats who wear polyester have less sex than those who don cotton or wool.
	The biology prize went jointly to Charles Foster, who lived in the wild several times as animals including a badger, an .

'Man-goat' among winners of spoof Nobel prizes

The death toll from a migrant boat disaster off Egypt's coast climbed to 133 today as rescuers recovered more bodies from the Mediterranean.
	Survivors have said up to 450 migrants were on board the overcrowded fishing vessel that was heading to Italy from Egypt when it keeled over off the port city of Rosetta on Wednesday.
	"The death toll from the illegal migrant boat that capsized off the coast of Rosetta... Has reached 133," the health ministry said in a statement.
	The military said it had rescued 163 survivors. Recovery attempts were continuing.
	Rescuers had said search operations would focus on the boat's hold where witnesses said around 100 people had been when the vessel flipped over.
	Authorities have arrested four suspected people traffickers over the tragedy, the latest in what the UN refugee agency expects to be the deadliest year on record for the Mediterranean.
	The accident comes months after the EU border agency Frontex warned that growing numbers of Europe-bound ...

At least 133 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant shipwreck

The UN atomic agency predicted today continued growth in nuclear power in the coming 15 years but trimmed its projections because of low fossil fuel prices and competition from renewables.
	"Nuclear energy, in the long run, will continue to play an important role in the world's energy mix," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a new report.
	The low end of its forecast sees worldwide nuclear power generating capacity expanding 1.9 per cent by 2030 to 390.2 gigawatts (GW) -- a gigawatt is one billion watts of electrical power -- from 2015.
	The upper end foresees an expansion of 56 percent to 598.2 GW. Previously the IAEA's projections were higher, estimating growth of between 2.4 percent and 68 percent.
	The low case assumes a continuation of current market, technology and resource trends with few changes to policies affecting nuclear power, the IAEA said.
	The high case assumes current rates of economic and electricity demand growth, particularly in Asia, plus countries ...

UN trims nuclear power growth forecasts

Thai police raided a Bangkok building today and arrested five foreigners after a shootout, discovering guns, crystal meth, fake passports and the dead body of a woman hidden in a freezer.
	Four men and one woman were arrested, according to the commander of Thailand's tourist police Surachet Hakpan, who added that three of the men spoke English but police were still verifying their nationalities.
	One of the men opened the door to the four-storey building and then, realising it was a police raid, grabbed a gun and started shooting, injuring one officer, police said.
	Photos in local media showed British and American passports alongside three handguns seized in the Friday afternoon raid.
	"Tourism police investigated and found out that international criminals were staying at that place and using it to do wrong things," Surachet told reporters.
	Police also discovered the bagged body of a woman, separated into pieces, inside a large freezer on the first floor, he said.
	"We are checking .

Foreigners arrested as Thai police find guns, dead body

Pulitzer prize-winning historian Saul Friedlander, a world authority on the Holocaust, said today he would leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected president.
	The 83-year-old Israeli-American writer, who escaped the Nazis by being hidden in a Catholic boarding school in France, described Trump as a "dangerous crazy".
	He said the controversial Republican candidate could win November's election because of Hillary Clinton's "tendency to lie and to hide things".
	"One cannot exclude Donald Trump winning even though he is a dangerous crazy," he told AFP.
	"He says whatever comes into his mind."
	Friedlander's magisterial two-volume history of Nazi Germany and the Jews charts Adolf Hitler's rise to power in a period where populism was rising across the world as it is today.
	"We don't know what (Trump) thinks," said the writer, whose parents perished in Auschwitz after being handed over to the Germans by French police as they tried to escape to neutral Switzerland.
	"At the ...

Holocaust historian 'will quit US' if Trump is elected

Rescuers recovered 53 bodies today from a migrant boat that capsized off the Egyptian coast, bringing the death toll from the disaster to at least 108, a health ministry official said.
	"There have been 53 bodies recovered as of 11 am (0900 GMT) on Friday," said health ministry official Adel Khalifa.
	A provincial official put the toll from the incident on Wednesday at 115. It was not immediately possible to explain the discrepancy between the two figures.

Over 100 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant shipwreck

More than 100 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant

Taiwan said today China had blocked it from attending a major United Nations aviation meeting, the latest setback to its troubled campaign for international recognition.
	Beijing hit back at the criticism, saying the island had "no right" to be invited.
	Self-ruling Taiwan is routinely prevented from attending global forums by Beijing, which still sees it as part of its territory requiring reunification.
	But the island had been hoping to attend the triennial meeting of the UN aviation agency in Montreal later this month, after it was admitted in 2013 in a major breakthrough.
	That invite came under previous Beijing-friendly president Ma Ying-jeou.
	But ties with China have rapidly turned frosty under new leader Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May.
	Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), which handles relations with Beijing, said Friday the island had not been admitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) meeting "due to political interference from China".
	"(It) 

Angry Taiwan blames China for UN aviation meet snub

European Union leaders will meet in Malta in February to help prepare for a summit the following month in Rome aimed at revitalising a bloc without Britain, an EU source said today.
	"I can confirm that the Malta Summit at EU 27 will take place on the 3rd of February," an EU source who asked not to be named told AFP.
	The 27 leaders met without British Prime Minister Theresa May earlier this month in Bratislava, promising to forge a new vision for a bloc rocked by Brexit, the worst migrant crisis since World War II, terrorist attacks and a stuttering economy.
	Valletta will play host as it assumes the rotating six-month presidency of the EU in January after Slovakia.
	The EU source said the agenda of the Malta meeting is still to be determined but it will be "basically a follow-up to Bratislava and preparation for the Rome Summit in March," which marks the 60th anniversary of the bloc's founding treaty signed in the Italian capital.
	May has said Britain will not trigger Article 50, ..

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