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| In Bhopal, two women spark hope for disaster's disabled children - TRFN | |  By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along the corridor of a rudimentary rehabilitation centre, women in saris and burkhas sit cross-legged on a red and white tiled floor, rocking children with twisted limbs and clawed fingers in their laps. The children - ranging from 2 to 12 years old and dressed in grey, white and red checked uniforms - look up wide-eyed, moaning and grunting, unable to speak or move due to illnesses such as cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and Down's syndrome. "I've been coming here for the last six months. ...
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| Three turn themselves in as probe involving Thai princess's kin widens | | | By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two Thai army officers and a civilian have answered a police summons, police said, in a widening corruption investigation that has also led to the arrest of high-ranking policemen and relatives of Princess Srirasmi, the wife of the Crown Prince. The investigation comes at a time of heightened sensitivity surrounding the palace months after the military launched a coup. The revered but ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, was admitted to hospital in October and underwent an operation to remove his gallbladder. ... |
| UPDATE 2-Somali al Shabaab gunmen kill 36 workers in Kenya quarry | | | KOROME, Kenya (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya, they said, beheading at least two of them in the same area that they hijacked a bus and killed 28 passengers a week ago. A village elder at Korome, near the site of the attack, said gunmen crept up on dozens of workers as they slept in tents around the quarry at about 1 a.m. (2200 GMT). "The militia separated the Muslims, then ordered the non-Muslims to lie down where they shot them on the head at close range," Hassan Duba said. ... |
| Apple heads to trial over digital music claims | |  By Dan Levine OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Apple Inc will defend against allegations that it abused a monopoly position in the digital music player market as it heads to trial in a case that could cost the company about $1 billion if it loses. Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court in the long-running class action, brought by a group of individuals and businesses who purchased iPods between 2006 and 2009. They say a 2006 iTunes update dictated that iTunes music could only be played on iPods, unfairly blocking competing device makers. ...
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| Australia probes bitcoin crime links as currency craves legitimacy | |  By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - A top Australian law enforcement agency is investigating bitcoin's role in organised crime, a senior official said, just as politicians and financial regulators embrace the digital currency as a legitimate part of modern business. The investigation into bitcoin's crime links by one authority as others embrace it highlights the crossroads governments have reached as they struggle to regulate the five-year-old "cryptocurrency", a method of making anonymous payments which has surged in popularity around the world. ...
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| Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents | | | By Dasha Afanasieva and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms which President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in "imam hatip" schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month. ... |
| Islamic State followers say they were behind Riyadh shooting | | | RIYADH (Reuters) - A group of supporters of Islamic State has released a video that it says shows its members carrying out a shooting in Saudi Arabia last week of a Danish national who survived the attack, SITE Monitoring reported. The film could not be independently verified but Saudi Arabia said on Nov. 22 a Dane had been shot in the shoulder as he left his work in Riyadh and was in a stable condition. Islamic State last month called on supporters in Saudi Arabia, which is participating in strikes against the group in Syria, to attack Shi'ite Muslims, government officials and Westerners. ... |
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