As the world starts to pay attention to Greta, she is increasingly the target of character assassination attempts.

Palestinian officials denounce Israel PM's reiterated pledge to annex occupied West Bank settlements as 'unacceptable'.

Investigator says Rilwan's abduction in 2014 was part of a series of attacks aimed at silencing liberal voices.

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Stewart Goodwin tried to put a stop to the constant flow of scooters into the plaza he oversees. He spoke to the government and scooter companies, but to no avail. "We still find scooters in our fountains," Goodwin, executive director of the Indiana War Memorials in Indianapolis, told CNN Business. "We find them in the canal. We find them strewn all over the sidewalks." In the Wild West of transportation, no one knows what to do about scooters. They appeared suddenly in many cities, triggering complaints of clutter and blocked sidewalks. When ridden, scooters emerged as sidewalk bullies -- fast enough to unsettle pedestrians and create safety issues. But force scooters into the streets and they are slow and vulnerable amid two-ton vehicles, not to mention potholes that can swallow small tires. Now, governments, communities and businesses -- even the scooter companies themselves -- are playing catchup on finding the right rules for scooters, and how to enforce them.... None of this is what was supposed to happen. CNN notes that this summer Atlanta banned nighttime riding "following a string of scooter deaths," while other cities have totally banned scooters, "with lingering memories of how Uber stormed onto their streets and created long-lasting challenges for local governments."

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Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok received the nominees list on Tuesday and has been mulling the candidates ever since.

The attacker, who has not yet been publicly identified by the police, also wounded 22 people.

The attacker, who has not yet been publicly identified by the police, also wounded 22 people.

As CICIG's mandate comes to an end this week, Al Jazeera examines why the anti-graft body mattered and what happens next

As CICIG's mandate comes to an end this week, Al Jazeera examines why the anti-graft body mattered and what happens next

schwit1 quotes Space.com: A recent paper, published to the preprint journal arXiv on July 29, has found a way to build an almost-steady wormhole, one that does collapse but slowly enough to send messages — and potentially even things — down it before it tears itself apart. All you need are a couple of black holes and a few infinitely long cosmic strings.

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Almost two million people in the state of Assam became stateless after being excluded from a controversial register.

Almost two million people in the state of Assam became stateless after being excluded from a controversial register.

Amazon isn't just partnering with hundreds of America's police departments. They're also "directing the departments' press releases, social media posts and comments on public posts," according to the Guardian: Ring says the program gives police more resources to solve crimes, while critics fear the company is quietly building up a for-profit private surveillance network. Ring's power over police departments' communications with the citizens they serve is just the latest question about the company's operations. Andrew Ferguson, a law professor and the author of The Rise of Big Data Policing said there has been a rise of tech company influence on police work over the past decade, but shaping marketing language within police departments represents a new level of "distortion of public safety rule". "Police should not have dual loyalty to a private company and the public -- their loyalty should be to the public," he said. "Any sort of blurring of that line causes us to question that loyalty...." Advocates fear that the cameras will allow police access to surveillance footage while bypassing the public process to approve more traditional security cameras. They have pointed out that contracts between police and Ring often face little public scrutiny and experts have raised concerns over requests from Ring to get access to police department's computer-aided dispatch feeds. Advocates have also questioned how comfortable users feel in denying law enforcement requests. When one Kansas police department announced their partnership with Ring, Amazon "sent the department a press release template and noted the final communique would have to be approved by Ring before release," according to the article. And for one police department in Georgia, Amazon's Ring "heavily edited the press release about the program," removing a sentence about their $15,920 donation of video doorbells and the fact that Amazon would even help install them in homes. "Ring also changed wording from the police department that said the department 'will be able to access videos submitted by subscribers of Ring' to say the department will 'join existing crime and safety conversations with local residents'." CNET also reports that Amazon "spent more than a year offering discounts and applying peer pressure with constant reminders and emails to convince officers to sign up.... When police didn't respond, Ring would follow up by noting neighboring law enforcement agencies that have joined, pushing for the Chula Vista police to join them."

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The demonstrations came a day after some of the worst violence the city has seen since protests started nearly three months ago.

The demonstrations came a day after some of the worst violence the city has seen since protests started nearly three months ago.