Space jam? Companies risk clutter, conflict in race for the skies

Bringing the stars into reach is big business but the rapid growth of a space market has raised concerns about a lack of laws, prompting calls for more rules to govern humanity's use of the cosmos

Applause as Indonesia pardons woman jailed after reporting harassment

The woman recorded some parts of lewd telephone calls from the school's principal without his knowledge in 2012 after complaining of sexual harassment


Facial recognition push at India airports raises privacy concerns

While airlines and airports developing the software promise greater security, some experts say the benefits come at the cost of privacy and greater surveillance


Russian women post bruised selfies to push for domestic violence law

About one in five Russian women has suffered violence at the hands of a partner, officials estimate


Data is the new oil so watch out for mass mining - Netflix film

Documentary film 'The Great Hack' argues that big business and politics are mass-mining everyday data for profit and power


Aid agency worker, others kidnapped in northeast Nigeria appear in video

The abduction comes nine months after Islamic State's West Africa branch executed a Red Cross aid worker who was kidnapped from another town in northeastern Nigeria in March 2018


Elton John AIDS fundraiser brings in $6 mln for Kenya HIV testing

The party was thrown to support a program to provide HIV self-test kits to 400,000 young men in Kenya


INTERVIEW-Ecuador to launch new anti-human trafficking plan - official

The plan outlines priorities to tackle and monitor trafficking and calls on authorities to improve how they work together, implement programs and allocate resources


Ice cubes for tigers as heat wave smashes European records

Belgium and the Netherlands hit all-time temperature highs as scientists warn such heatwaves could become the norm


U.S. judge blocks Trump's latest sweeping asylum rule

The new rule aimed to bar almost all asylum applications at the U.S.-Mexico border


WIDER IMAGE-In Georgian valley, war-scarred women battle tradition to make a living

53-year-old Leila Achishvili has fought hard to secure her independence in fiercely patriarchal north-east Georgia


Opinion

OPINION: ‘Even crocodiles were displaced' in Malawi's floods

Loss of forests is making floods more devastating in Malawi - but efforts to replant trees on farmland could help



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