Thailand's highest court acquitted prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of breaching ethics clauses in the country's constitution, allowing him to stay in his job.
Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been jailed for a protest outside police headquarters, as authorities step up a crackdown on opposition to tighten Beijing's control over the territory.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam were sentenced to jail on charges related to an unauthorised anti-government protest last year at the city's police headquarters.
German police said that a man who drove a vehicle at high speed through a pedestrian zone in the southwestern city of Trier, killing five people including a nine-month-old baby and seriously injuring more than a dozen, has started talking to them.
A Chinese spacecraft sent to return lunar rocks to Earth collected its first samples after landing on the moon, the government announced, adding to a string of successes for Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme.
A Chinese spacecraft sent to return lunar rocks to Earth collected its first samples after landing on the moon, the government announced, adding to a string of successes for Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme.
The ill-fated Soviet revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, memorably said – some years before he departed this world with an ice-axe in his head – “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
