WeChat translates ‘black foreigner’ into racial slur
Image copyright Reuters Image caption WeChat is one of China's most popular apps Chinese messaging app WeChat has apologised after its software used the N-word as an English translation for the Chinese for "black foreigner".The company blamed its algorithms for
SA President Zuma must face corruption charges, court rules
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Jacob Zuma has always denied the allegations linked to a government arms deal South Africa's President Jacob Zuma must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled.It
Icelandic Pirate Party MP forced to wear eyepatch
Image copyright Eva Pandora Baldursdottir Image caption Avast ye! Eva Pandora Baldursdottir sports an eyepatch following an eye injury A member of parliament from the Pirate Party in Iceland was forced to wear an eyepatch for a television appearance following
Harvey Weinstein: US actress Rose McGowan makes rape allegation
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan appeared at a premiere for the film Grindhouse in 2007 The scandal deluging Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has deepened after US actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of raping
Australia skydiving: Three dead after ‘mid-air collision’
Three skydivers have died in Queensland after they apparently collided mid-air, say Australian authorities.Paramedics and police were called to Mission Beach, a popular skydiving spot about 140km (87 miles) south of Cairns.Two men in their 30s, and a woman in
Crocodile attack suspected in search for Australian woman
Image copyright Queensland Police Image caption Anne Cameron was reported missing on Tuesday Police searching for a missing woman in Australia say she is likely to have been killed by a crocodile.Anne Cameron, 79, was reported missing from a nursing
New Zealand: Thousands of jelly creatures wash up on beaches
Image copyright Greymouth Star Thousands of jellyfish-like creatures have washed up on the western beaches of New Zealand's South Island. Known as By-the-wind-sailors they are related to jellyfish and common in the waters of the southern hemisphere. According to the
Samsung Electronics CEO resigns over ‘unprecedented crisis’
Image copyright AFP Samsung Electronics chief executive Kwon Oh-hyun has resigned citing an "unprecedented crisis".It is the latest management upheaval at the firm after the heir of the entire Samsung Group was imprisoned for corruption in August. Mr Kwon is
Linkin Park singer in posthumous Carpool Karaoke show
Image copyright Apple Music Image caption Chester Bennington (front right) in Apple Music's Carpool Karaoke days before his death in July An episode of Carpool Karaoke starring Linkin Park - recorded less than a week before lead singer Chester Bennington
No-belle prize
Image caption Clara Starrso is a second-year economics student at Cambridge University We hear a lot about the under-representation of women in so-called STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and maths.But the proportion of women in economics is by some