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| Japan swimmer charged with camera theft at Asiad |
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 By Peter Rutherford INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) - A Japanese swimmer has been kicked out of the Asian Games and will have to pay his own way back home after being charged by police for stealing a camera from a South Korean journalist. Naoya Tomita, a gold medallist from Guangzhou in 2010 but outside the medals in Incheon, had been captured by video surveillance putting the 8 million won ($7,600) camera into his bag at the Games swimming venue on Friday. Japan delegation chief Tsuyoshi Aoki apologised for Tomita's behaviour on behalf of the team at a news conference on Saturday. ...
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| Catalonia president calls referendum on independence from Spain |
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 MADRID (Reuters) - The president of Spain's Catalonia region, Artur Mas, signed a decree on Saturday calling an independence referendum on Nov. 9, a vote the central government has said would violate the constitution and has promised to block. A long-standing pro-independence movement in the north-eastern region has gathered momentum during recent years of economic hardship. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has called an special cabinet meeting on Monday to formalise his government's legal challenge to the vote in the constitutional court. ...
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| China charges state-owned shipyard ex-head with taking bribes |
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| SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The former chairman of Chinese state-run shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has been charged with taking bribes, prosecutors said on Friday, the latest official to be swept up in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption crackdown. The Supreme People's Procuratorate said in a notice on its website that Gu Tiquan, former board chairman of the Shanghai-based shipyard, would be prosecuted. It did not give details. Hudong-Zhonghua is a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp , one of the largest shipbuilding conglomerates in the country. ... |
| Indonesia's Aceh introduces whipping as punishment for gay sex |
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| BANDA ACEH Indonesia (Reuters) - The Indonesian province of Aceh on Saturday approved an anti-homosexuality law that can punish anyone caught having gay sex with 100 lashes, a lawmaker said. After a three-decade-old separatist movement, a peace agreement signed in 2005 granted special autonomy to Aceh, at the northern tip of Sumatra, on condition that it remained part of the sprawling archipelago. As part of that deal, Aceh won the right to be the only Indonesian province to use Islamic sharia law as its legal code. ... |
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