An Indian-American woman whose feticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned in July walked out of prison today, a day after a judge resentenced her to less time than she had already served and ordered her immediate release.
	Purvi Patel, 35, was with relatives when she left the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis about 10.00 AM (local time), said Indiana Department of Correction spokesman Doug Garrison.
	Her attorney, Lawrence Marshall, said Patel is "very, very joyful that this day has come," but that she now needs privacy so that she can focus on rebuilding her life.
	"For right now, she needs to recover from what is obviously a traumatic several years," said Marshall, a Stanford University law professor.
	"She has to take her life and try to make something meaningful out of all the wreckage that got her here."
	Patel was convicted in 2015 of killing her premature infant by taking abortion-inducing drugs and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
	She appealed her ...

Woman leaves prison after feticide conviction overturned

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A Turkish-owned jet leased by the private Wings of Lebanon company has landed in hot water after a flight it made to Israel.
	The head of Beirut's international airport, Fadi al-Hassan, said today that Turkey's Tailwind was asked to remove the Lebanese company's slogan from the Boeing 737-800 jet that it had leased until December.
	The plane was also banned from any future landing in Beirut.
	Lebanon and Israel have been in a formal state of war since Israel was created in 1948.
	Liza Dvir, spokeswoman of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, said the Wings of Lebanon jet landed there on yesterday and departed the same day.
	Wings of Lebanon says the jet was sent to Turkey for maintenance. The purpose of the flight to Israel was unclear.

Lebanon-leased jet lands in hot water after Israel flight

German economist Reinhard Selten, a recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, has died. He was 85.
	The University of Bonn, where he had taught since 1984, said in a statement today that Selten died on Aug 23 in Poznan, Poland.
	The university's rector, Michael Hoch, described Selten as "one of the most significant German scientists with the highest international reputation."
	Selten received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Hungarian-American John C Harsanyi and American John F Nash Jr.
	They were jointly cited for their "pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games."
	Game theory has been used to explain human behavior in diverse fields such as economics, politics and biology.
	Selten was born in 1930 in Breslau, now the Polish city of Wroclaw.

Nobel-winning game theorist Reinhard Selten dies at 85

Chicago recorded 90 homicides in August, its highest monthly death toll in 20 years, the city's police department said today.
	The previous highest monthly homicide tally in Chicago was in August 1996, the Chicago Sun-Times reported citing historic Chicago Police Department data.
	It did not provide the number of deaths. There were 384 shooting incidents and 472 shooting victims during August 2016, police said.
	Chicago is on pace to have more than 700 homicides by the end of the year, the newspaper reported.
	The city hasn't had more than 600 homicides in a year since 2003 and not more than 700 since 1998, according to records.
	Police blamed the increase in violence on repeat offenders using illegal guns.
	"The historical cycle of violence we have seen in some communities must come to an end," CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a statement.
	"Repeat gun offenders who drive the violence on our streets should not be there in the first place and it is time to changes the laws to .

Chicago police: 90 homicides in August, 472 shooting victims

Holding their crying babies in their arms, dozens of Egyptian mothers have rallied on a major Cairo road, blocking traffic to protest severe shortages of subsidised baby formula.
	Today's protest reflects how austerity measures aimed at healing the country's budget deficit are hitting Egyptians hard.
	Some of the mothers broke into tears while displaying empty milk bottles to reporters as they stood for hours on the asphalt with no protection from the scorching sun.
	Riot police with helmets and batons were deployed to reopen the road but didn't force an end to the protest, held in front of the state-run Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company in eastern Cairo.
	Mohammed Fouad of the Egyptian Center to Protect the Right for Medicine says this is the first time Egypt has cut formula subsidies.

Egyptian moms protest shortages of subsidised baby formula

A Belgian judge has ordered Mohamed Abrini, a suspect in attacks claimed by the Islamic State organisation in Brussels and Paris, held in custody for two more months.
	The judge's decision was announced today by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office.
	Four other people suspected of involvement in the March 22 suicide bombings in Belgium's capital were ordered held for two more months. The judge ordered another month of pretrial detention for two additional suspects.
	Abrini, 31, admits he was the "man in the hat" spotted with two bombers who blew themselves up at Brussels Airport. That attack, and another in the Brussels subway, killed 32 people.
	The Belgian Moroccan is also believed to have been involved in the planning and execution of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.

Belgian judge keeps attacks suspect in custody 2 more months

Pope Francis today proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, taking his green agenda to a new level by supplementing Jesus' Gospel call to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit the sick.
	Francis made the ambitious proposal in a message to mark the church's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, which he instituted last year in a bid to highlight his ecological concerns.
	Officials said the call was the logical extension of Francis' landmark and controversial ecological encyclical issued last year. In it, the world's first Latin American pope called for a revolution to correct what he said was a "structurally perverse" economic system in which the rich have exploited the poor and turned the Earth into an "immense pile of filth."
	This year, the Sept. 1 day of prayer for the planet falls during Francis' Holy Year of Mercy, a yearlong focus on the church's merciful side. Throughout the ...

Pope calls for new work of mercy: Care for environment

Astronauts took their second spacewalk in two weeks today, taking care of some long overdue radiator work outside the International Space Station.
	Commander Jeffrey Williams used a power drill-type tool to fold up a 44-foot-long thermal radiator that's no longer in use. Spacewoman Kate Rubins floated nearby, making sure Williams was clear of the panel as it slowly retracted, accordion style.
	With the radiator closed all the way, they cinched it down in four spots for safekeeping. NASA wants to preserve the radiator as a spare. Outstretched, it was at greater risk from space junk.
	The radiator was extended in 2012 to help stop a coolant leak. But the leak ended up being elsewhere. Another team of astronauts attempted the radiator retraction late last year, but couldn't complete the job, so it fell into Williams and Rubins' gloved hands. The radiator is part of the 250-mile-high lab's heat-dispelling system.
	The two U.S. Astronauts installed a new docking port during a spacewalk ...

Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk in 2 weeks for radiator work

An explosion has rocked the SpaceX launch site in Florida.
	NASA says SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred this morning.
	The test, considered routine, was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
	Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. A cloud of dark smoke filled the overcast sky.
	Additional details were not immediately available. But sirens could be heard in the aftermath.
	The rocket was supposed to hoist an Israeli satellite this weekend.

Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test

Germany's military launched a pilot project today to help Syrian refugees learn civil reconstruction skills, in hopes that they will eventually be able to help rebuild their homeland.
	Over 12 weeks, military experts are teaching 120 refugees engineering, construction, sanitation and other skills in three four-week courses.
	"The goal is for these young people to get good basic training," Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt, where one of the training centers has started giving classes.
	Von der Leyen and Federal Labor Agency chief Frank-Juergen Weise formally initiated the project on Thursday, though the training already began earlier in the week.
	Ahead of the event, von der Leyen said the idea is that the eventual rebuilding of Syria will need "more than just new stones, it will take people with confidence and diverse skills."
	Even if the refugees decide not to return home, she said the program will help them acquire the skills ...

German army teaches Syrian refugees reconstruction skills

A French court has overturned a ban on "burkinis" in Nice, the last of a series of similar decisions regarding local bans of the full-body swimwear adopted by some Muslim women.
	The court in Nice concluded today the Riviera city's decree is illegal because there were no proven risks of disruption to public order.
	Other similar decisions in previous days, including in Cannes, follow a ruling by France's top court, the Council of State, that set legal precedent last week.
	The Council said that concerns arising from recent terror attacks, including in Nice on July 14, is insufficient to justify a ban.
	The bans decreed by mayors in about 30 French cities and towns this summer have prompted controversy at home and a wave of outrage abroad.

Nice burkini ban overturned following ruling by top court

President Enrique Pena Nieto's decision to meet with possibly Mexico's most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for him, with social media posters and politicians calling it a national humiliation likely to lower the president's already historically low popularity ratings.
	Not only did Pena Nieto not demand that Donald Trump apologise for calling Mexican migrants rapists and criminals, but he stood silently by in their joint press conference while the Republican candidate repeated his promise to build a border wall between the countries.
	"This is an insult and a betrayal," said artist Arturo Meade as he joined a protest against yesterday's meeting in Mexico City. "What can this meeting bring us except surrealism in all its splendor?"
	Televisa news anchor Carlos Loret de Mola marveled that Trump would dare come to Mexico and reiterate his intention to build the wall. "The humiliation is now complete," he tweeted.
	Particularly irksome to Mexicans was that Pena ..

Mexican president likely hurt by 'ill-advised' Trump meeting

Turkey's president has defended the sweeping crackdown that has seen the detention of thousands of judges and prosecutors following July's failed coup, asserting today that it will boost the judiciary.
	President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at the presidential complex in Ankara to an audience of judges and prosecutors for the opening of the judicial year, said that the detention of 3,495 judges and prosecutors so far "would not weaken the judiciary, quite the contrary I believe it will cause significant relief in the implementation of real justice."
	After the failed July 15 coup that left at least 270 people dead, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency and launched a massive crackdown against supporters of the movement led by US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara deemed responsible for the uprising. Gulen denies any involvement.
	Today, the Minister of National Defence announced 820 personnel were dishonorably discharged from the Army and Navy. Of ...

Turkey's president defends his massive post-coup crackdown

Opposition activists say warplanes have carried out several airstrikes in Syria's Hama, killing at least 25 people, amid a lightning advance by insurgents on government-controlled areas of the central province.
	The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says today a series of airstrikes in northern Hama province has killed at least 25 civilians, including six children.
	The Hama-based Syrian Press Center, another activist group, says at least ten people were killed when warplanes struck a crowd of people displaced from Suran, a town north of Hama city that was seized by opposition fighters. It says another 15 people were killed further to the west.
	Syria's state news agency, SANA, says warplanes killed 10 "terrorists" in northern Hama.
	Insurgents have been pushing toward Hama city, seizing government positions in the north.

Syrian activists: airstrikes in Hama province kill 25 people

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to charges he imported marijuana and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, from Canada into the US.
	US Massachusetts Attorney Carmen Ortiz says Gurshuran Singh, of Brampton, Ontario, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to distribute MDMA and marijuana and money laundering conspiracy.
	The 33-year-old Singh was arrested in Canada in May 2014.
	Prosecutors say Singh agreed with a co-conspirator to transport MDMA and marijuana over the border and into Michigan from 2011 to March 2012.
	A courier then drove the drugs to Jonathan Rabinovitch, of Salem, Massachusetts, who sold them and returned the proceeds to Canada.
	Rabinovitch was sentenced in February 2015 to 24 months in prison.
	Singh is scheduled to be sentenced December 7.

Canadian man pleads guilty to importing ecstasy, pot

An Indian-American woman whose foeticide conviction for a self-induced abortion was overturned should be released from prison immediately, a judge said, after she was resentenced to less time than she already has served behind bars.
	In a brief ruling, St Joseph Superior Court Judge Elizabeth C Hurley also said a sentence of 18 months for Purvi Patel was appropriate for a felony charge of neglect of a dependent and that Patel does not have to be placed on parole.
	Indiana Department of Corrections spokesman Isaac Randolph said late yesterday that officials were reviewing the situation and that Patel's release from prison in the "immediate future is possible."
	Yesterday's ruling comes less than two months after the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned Patel's 2015 conviction and 20 year prison sentence  on a charge of killing her premature infant by taking abortion-inducing drugs, saying that the state's law was not intended to be used "to prosecute women for their own abortions."
	The 

Woman whose feticide conviction overturned to be released

Two people were killed in a bomb attack in front of the district governor's office in Logar province east of the capital, Kabul, today, Afghan officials said.
	Salim Sallhe, spokesman for the provincial governor, said that the Taliban were behind the massive explosion in front of the district governor's compound in Charkh district, 60 kilometers east of Kabul, that shook buildings in the area.
	The Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack in an email sent to The Associated Press. He said the attack was a truck bombing.
	Abdul Wali Wakil, a member of the provincial council, said the bomber was on foot and wearing police uniform. The bomber detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the compound, after which a group of Taliban fighters began shooting at the building.
	Sallhe also confirmed the bomber was on foot, and said that fighting broke out between Afghan police and the Taliban.
	Six militants were killed and eight were wounded, and two ...

2 killed in Taliban bomb attack: Afghan official

Indonesia is screening travelers from neighboring Singapore for the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the city-state reports a growing number of infections and its first case of a pregnant woman testing positive.
	Indonesian Health Ministry spokesman Oscar Primadi said today that health officials are recommending that the Foreign Ministry issue an advisory against travel to Singapore, particularly for pregnant women.
	Singapore issued a statement yesterday evening saying it had identified 22 new Zika cases in one particular area of the city and its first case involving a pregnant woman.
	Zika has mild effects for most people but doctors believe infection during pregnancy can result in babies with small heads, which is known as microcephaly, and other serious developmental disorders. Singapore had 155 cases as of yesterday.
	Primadi said thermal imaging equipment to detect abnormal body temperatures was installed at eight Indonesian ports with routes serving Singapore, including the capital 

Indonesia screens for Zika as Singapore infections mount

Malaysia's Health Ministry says a woman who traveled to Singapore has been diagnosed with the Zika virus, the country's first case of the mosquito-borne disease.
	The ministry says the 58-year-old woman tested positive for Zika in her urine after she developed a rash a week after her return from Singapore. It says her daughter in Singapore also tested positive for Zika.
	It said today the virus was believed imported from Singapore since the woman started experiencing symptoms on the same day as her daughter.
	Zika has mild effects on most people, but can be fatal for unborn children. Infection during pregnancy can result in babies with small heads a condition called microcephaly and other brain defects.
	Singapore says more than 40 people have been infected by the virus.

Malaysia reports 1st Zika case imported from Singapore

Bastian Schweinsteiger captained Germany for the last time in a 2-0 friendly victory over Finland, receiving an emotional send-off to cap a 12-year international career that included the 2014 World Cup title.
     Schweinsteiger burst into tears as he was honored before kickoff and was cheered nearly every time he touched the ball. The 32-year-old midfielder decided to quit the national team after the European Championship, where Germany lost in the semifinals to host nation France in July.
     Leaving the match in the 67th minute, Schweinsteiger received another standing ovation. Minutes earlier, a fan managed to run onto the pitch unchallenged and took a selfie with the smiling Schweinsteiger before running off.
     "I was very touched, I was enjoying every second," he said. "It was a great honor to play for Germany and you fans." Germany used a largely second-string lineup and eased past a Finland team that rarely threatened.
     The match was played at a leisurely pace, with ...

Tears for Schweinsteiger in last game for Germany

All those on board two small planes died in a midair collision in western Alaska, state troopers has said.
	Troopers did not say yesterday how many people were in the two aircraft, but the Alaska National Guard said earlier that there were a total of five on board the planes.
	Troopers said the crash occurred northwest of the village of Russian Mission, 375 miles west of Anchorage. Responders at the scene have confirmed there were no survivors on either of the planes, troopers said.
	The crash scene covers a large area that is accessible only by helicopter, said Clint Johnson, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska division. The collision occurred just before 11 AM yesterday, Guard officials said.
	Johnson said an initial report was about a possible plane crash involving a Piper PA-18 in the area of Russian Mission, followed shortly after that with another report of another, separate plane that was overdue. "And then subsequently, shortly after that, is when we .

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