Syria conflict: 'Russians killed' in US air strikes

At least two Russian fighters died in US air strikes in Syria last week, their associates tell the BBC.

Spy chief warns on Trump aides' clearance

Dan Coats was responding to a question about presidential adviser Jared Kushner and an ousted aide.

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Israel PM Netanyahu faces corruption charges

The Israeli PM, who could face charges including bribery, says the allegations are baseless.

Oxfam International chair held over Guatemala graft scandal

Juan Alberto Fuentes is arrested on charges related to his former role as Guatemalan finance minister.

Gabon: Baby freed after hospital bill paid

Baby Angel was only reunited with her mother thanks to a campaign that paid her medical bill.

Dutch foreign minister quits over lie about meeting Putin

Halbe Zijlstra admits lying about hearing the Russian president talk of creating a "Greater Russia".

TV feuds: 8 times co-stars just couldn't get along

From Sex and the City to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to Beverly Hills 90210, TV history is coloured with on and off-set spats.

Tributes pour in for 'hero' dog Pete

Pete the English Setter died after being attacked by a bear as his owner and other dogs got to safety.

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End of Zuma, ends 9 of SA's darkest years. By Max du Preez It is entirely appropriate that Jacob Zuma didn’t leave office in a dignified way, in a way that is in the interest of his party and the country. It defines his nine years in office: arrogant, defiant, destructive, giving the democratic process the middle finger, only serving his own interests. As I write this, the news is that the ANC’s NEC sat for thirteen hours and eventually determined that he be asked to resign. He refused, wanting three more months in office. We will know after noon today whether he will be removed by Parliament after a motion of no confidence and if so, when this will happen. At least if a motion of no confidence is passed, the whole Cabinet gets dismissed and Cyril Ramaphosa could appoint a new one without having to fire the Zuma loyalists and Gupta proxies like Des van Rooyen, Bathabile Dlamini, Faith Muthambi, Mosebenzi Zwane and David Mahlobo. Zuma actually deserves to be impeached, causing him to lose all his generous benefits and security, but we have a budget speech next week and many other urgent matters – we can’t wait for that process. Zuma’s demise will be an end to the darkest chapter in South Africa’s history since we became a democracy in 1994. Now we understand a little better why Ramaphosa was being so cautious the last few weeks in his efforts to get Zuma to leave office. It also tells us that Ramaphosa is going to find it a tough job, an almost impossible job, to lead the ANC if he wants to be true to his mission of change, renewal and growth. The fact that it took so many hours of deliberation by the ANC to get to a decision to order Zuma to depart tells us that there must have been strong support for Zuma staying on in the ANC’s top decision making body. Who are these people? What could their motivation be? Tribalism? Greed? Fear of getting their dirty past exposed? A desire for what Gwede Mantashe called "exit looting"? Some of them say in public that they’re standing with Zuma because only he will make sure radical economic transformation will happen. We know that they know that they are lying. After all the scandals at the state-owned enterprises and all the hundreds of billions of rands stolen and wasted, everybody knows the Zuma version of RET was indeed radical economic looting; stealing from the poor. The stark truth is that under Zuma, South Africa became poorer, more divided, more unstable and more unequal. Zuma ripped through the fabric of our society and compromised many important state institutions. He outsourced the political power we, the people, entrusted him with to an immigrant family in exhange for favours and money. He allowed this family to insult us and subvert our sovereignty and national pride. He undermined our judicial system and repeatedly violated his oath of office and our Constitution. He blatantly lied to Parliament on several occasions. He destroyed many of the hard-won gains our society had made between 1994 and 2009. He sat on a throne like a feared king, dishing out and receiving favours and gifts. He did serious damage to our economy and singlehandedly caused a credit downgrade. His personal life is a mess and he embarrassed his country in the eyes of the African continent and the world. He ruled by fear and division. He discredited the concept of a rapid transformation by using the concepts radical economic transformation and white monopoly capital as a smokescreen for large-scale theft of public money. He was driven by greed, lust for power and paranoia about ending up in jail. He systematically destroyed political accountability. During his nine years in power, money meant for development and alleviating the plight of the poor were brazenly stolen by his inner circle and business buddies. He brought back something the ANC had successfully fought against for a century: tribalism and ethnic chauvinism. And when it was his time to go, he threatened and mobilised and played dangerous games. We must take the names down of those in positions of power who still supported him after it became clear that the broader ANC and the public wanted the new ANC president to take over the leadership of the country. We should remember their names, because they can’t be trusted. The ANC itself should remember their names, because they clearly don’t have their party’s interests at heart. They’re complicit in the atrocities of their leader. I have come across several long-time ANC supporters who refused to vote for the ANC at the last election. They told me they’re ready to return to the fold because under Cyril Ramaphosa the honour of the ANC will be restored. But will it? What does it say about the ANC if so many in positions of power still cling to this corrupt man who had done South Africa such unspeakable harm? I have been very upbeat about what Ramaphosa could achieve as the new ANC leader, but I clearly underestimated how many senior ANC leaders stubbornly side with Zuma. A mere week ago I still believed that the change in leadership could make it possible for the ANC to rejuvenate and even become a modern political party instead of a tired former liberation movement. Now I’m not so sure. Perhaps this morning’s pessimism will lift once Ramaphosa has established himself in Tuynhuys. But the much-expected Cyril Spring has started on a very chilly note.

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Julian Assange: Warrant for his arrest upheld by court

The Wikileaks founder is staying at the Ecuadorean embassy in London after failing to answer bail.

Ex-football coach Barry Bennell guilty of sex abuse

Former football coach Barry Bennell is found guilty dozens of sex offences against boys in the 1980s.

Virgin Atlantic in Palestinian couscous row

Virgin Atlantic has been embroiled in a row over the naming of a couscous salad served on flights.

Cape Town drought declared a 'national disaster'

The announcement came as the city revealed "Day Zero", when it will run out of water, is delayed.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on first Scottish visit

The royal couple visit Edinburgh Castle on their first official joint appearance in Scotland.

SEX WORKERS JAILED FOR PARADING NAKED MAN IN NTCHEU Ntcheu first grade magistrate court on Monday, convicted and sentenced two sex workers to 4 years Imprisonment with Hard Labour each, for stripping naked and parading a male client around Mphate trading centre for failling to settle a bill on Wednesday. The jam packed court, through state prosecutor inspector Evans Kantukule, heard that on Wednesday February 7, 2018, the 26 year old man name withheld, went for beer drinking at Friends Corner along the M1 road at Ntcheu Boma. While at the drinking joint, he fell in love with one of the sex workers and they agreed to spend a night together. Everything went on well till early in the morning when, payment of the services rendered to him became a problem, he failed to settle the bill. A quarrel erupted between the two. While in the thick of quarrels, another sex worker joined claiming that she was also yet to get her payment from the same man for the services she provided sometimes back. The two sex workers joined forces, and resorted to stripping off the man all his clothes as punishment. They told him that unless they are paid in full, he will not get back his clothes. Making matters worse, the man was paraded around the trading centre while completely naked. More sex workers came out in support of their friends chanting *"Kabwerebwere uyu"*. This was all happening at around 08:00 in the morning on February 8. Well wishers came to his rescue and took the matter to Ntcheu police. The culprits were arrested same day. They were charged with *Indecent Assault* which contravenes section 137 of the Penal Code. They pleaded guilty to the charge and prayed for leniency. But the state asked the court to give the two stiffer punishment, saying that the victim's right to privacy was violated. They could have chosen other better means of recovering the payments other than the one used. In his rulling Ntcheu First Grade Magistrate Crispin Sachuluka, conquered with the state. *If it were a woman in the victim's shoes, the whole Human Rights fraternity and Gender Activists would have descended on the man, but just because it's viceversa, it is being taken as normal which is not fair*" he said. He then slapped the two to 48 months Imprisonment with Hard Labour as a deterrent to the other would be offenders. Patricia Chapotera 21 and Ruth Wizman 20, hails from Nsiyaludzu village, Traditional Authority Makwangwala, Ntcheu.

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How do you know what to do if you don't go to church? to bible study? I'll tell you what a very old, very christian lady told me while preparing me to be her speaker for the dead. She came from a family of homesteaders in the area of Kettle Falls, Washington, USA and they lived surrounded by thousands of acres of deep mountain forests and high meadows. Miles and miles from any town and no neighbors in site but family. Her grandaddy had the talk every few years with the new batch of youngsters, explaining why they didn't make that trip to town on a weekly basis. As his tale went, he would show them in the bible where it said "Go into your closet and pray". Then, "wherever two or more of you are gathered in His name, there is Love.". And to top it off - "thou shalt build no man-made temple in which to worship." Explaining that "your body is your temple and your closet is your inner most room, that is where your praying needs to be taking place, not out here where you'd be saying what you think I want to hear, but conversating in your own heart, listening for the Word inside your own self." "There's plenty of us living right here to be showing all that Love, because who better needs it than the ones you live around, day in and day out?" 'Since it would take 5 hours one way in the horse-drawn wagon, we don't be going to town but a couple times a year and we don't be taking all of you kids. So we be reading and studying every thing we can get our hands on and loving each other right here at home. You'll know the difference between right and wrong and if you can't figure that out with your own free will from the voice inside your heart where the Word speaks to each one of us, then no church building anywhere is gonna be giving you that." Sharlene McMullen Larsen

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Russia Saratov crash: Ice on sensors 'may be cause'

That could have led to wrong speed data and contributed to the crash that killed 71, officials say.

Boston Dynamics' latest SpotMini robot opens doors

Boston Dynamics' latest design of the SpotMini robot is able to open doors.

Chibok girls kidnapper Haruna Yahaya jailed in Nigeria

Haruna Yahaya will serve 15 years behind bars after admitting his role in the April 2014 kidnap.

The moment Saakashvili deported from Ukraine

The former president of Georgia was detained at a Kiev restaurant by law enforcement agents in camouflage.

Haitian Oxfam workers tried to warn of sex scandal before

Former staff knew of "sex parties" but suffered consequences when they warned of the sexual exploitation.

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South Africa: ANC decides Zuma must go 'urgently'

President Jacob Zuma is refusing to resign so his party has issued a formal demand, officials say.

will.i.am on sexism: 'Humanity has issues'

The musician says sexism and inappropriate behaviour runs throughout the entertainment industry.

Pakistan gang 'stole spinal fluid from women'

The gang obtained the fluid from more than 12 women, including a teen, to sell on the black market.

Transgender first for Australian football as Hannah Mouncey is accepted

The country's football league says it wants everyone to be able to play the Australian rules game.

What Kim Jong-un's new photo tells us about North Korea

A recently released photo by state media outlet KCNA shows a more casual side to the Kim family.

How to handle an unexploded 75-year-old bomb

London City Airport has reopened after an unexploded World War Two bomb was safely moved from the area.

Taiwan's pedestrian crossing men get girlfriends

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Taiwan's street crossing men have got girlfriends.

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Russian court rejects mother's adoption bid after breast surgery

A court took her two adopted boys from her after the surgery saying she identified herself as a man.

Portugal police 'find cocaine in traveller's padded pants'

Police in Portugal have arrested a man accused of carrying 1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine in fake bottoms.

Winter Olympics: Kim Jong-un calls for further reconciliation

North Korea's leader advocates "livening up" relations with the South after decades of mistrust.

South Africa: ANC 'decides Zuma must go'

President Jacob Zuma is refusing to resign so his party has issued a formal demand, reports say.

South Korea jails Choi Soon-sil, friend to Park Geun-hye, for corruption

Choi Soon-sil was at the heart of a corruption scandal that felled the country's first female president.

Oxfam: Haiti's president condemns UK charity over scandal

It follows the charity's admission staff members hired prostitutes while delivering earthquake aid.

Commonwealth in secret succession plans

The Commonwealth is beginning to decide who might succeed the Queen as head of the organisation.

In search of surrogates, foreign couples descend on Ukraine

Demand for surrogacy in Ukraine, one of Europe's poorest nations, is soaring. But what happens to the women involved?

Ahed Tamimi: Palestinian viral slap video teen goes on trial

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US teenager Chloe Kim wins halfpipe gold

American snowboard sensation Chloe Kim produces a brilliant performance to take gold in the women's halfpipe.

The problem with India's feral dogs

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Tonga parliament building flattened by Cyclone Gita

Cyclone Gita, a category four storm, battered the island overnight and caused widespread damage.

Twerking through trauma

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How to become a professional wrestler

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'They were sexually exploiting the locals'

A former Oxfam employee says she told managers about alleged abuses in Haiti between 2009 and 2012.

Baltimore police guilty of robbing citizens

Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor were convicted of racketeering and robbery charges.

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