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| Facebook must face shareholder class actions over IPO | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has certified two shareholder class action lawsuits accusing Facebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company's initial public offering in May 2012. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said retail and institutional investors who claimed they lost money by purchasing Facebook shares at inflated prices may pursue their respective claims as groups. The decision is dated Dec. 11 but had been kept under seal, which Sweet lifted in an order made public on Tuesday. ...
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen captured in Mexico to be returned to U.S | |  By Marice Richter and David Alire Garcia FORT WORTH, Texas/PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - A rich Texas teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time for violating his probation in a drunken-driving crash that left four people dead planned the flight and even held a farewell party, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, became known as the "affluenza" teen during his trial in juvenile court over the 2013 crash. During Couch's trial, a psychologist sparked outrage by saying in his defence that Couch was so wealthy and spoiled he could not tell the difference between right and wrong.
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| ESPN in TV debate invite to FIFA election five | |  By Simon Evans MIAMI, Dec 29 (Reuters) - U.S. sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in FIFA's presidential election to participate in a debate on the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football. "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate," a network spokesman told Reuters via email on Tuesday. "Our goal is to provide a forum for an open, transparent discussion about the future governance of the sport in advance of the election that will determine who occupies the most powerful position in global football." The candidates are Frenchman Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Swiss Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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| France calls for EU crackdown on fake Syrian passports | | | France has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports. In a letter to the European Commission, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called on the EU to tighten security by improving the quality of equipment used to check travel documents at external borders, notably in Greece and Italy. |
| Thai military expands its powers with Bangkok 'black site' | |  By Aubrey Belford and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Bangkok lawyer Winyat Chatmontree was allowed to meet his client in detention at a Bangkok army base, Pratin Chankate shuffled in blindfolded and shackled by military guards. At their second meeting Pratin, a former police officer charged with plotting to attack senior government officials who was officially in civilian custody, was taken away after five minutes by soldiers, Winyat said. Pratin is detained in a new facility established by the Thai junta to hold people deemed threats to national security, in what lawyers and rights groups say is an unprecedented expansion of the military's control over the criminal justice system.
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| Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves | |  By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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| 'Glee' star arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn | |  Actor Mark Salling, star of the hit television show "Glee," was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Salling, 33, who played brash high school football player Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox network series about an unlikely school choir, was taken into custody in the Sunland neighbourhood north of Los Angeles, LAPD spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said. Salling was arrested by officers serving search warrants for Internet possession of child pornography, according to the spokeswoman.
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| Iraq's Abadi plants flag in Ramadi to mark Islamic State defeat | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi planted the national flag in Ramadi on Tuesday after the army retook the city centre from Islamic State a day earlier, a victory that could help vindicate his strategy for rebuilding the military after stunning defeats. If the Anbar provincial capital can be fully secured and re-populated, it would be the first major success for the U.S.-trained force that fled 18 months ago as jihadist Islamic State militants surged through northern and western Iraq. Three mortar rounds landed about 500 meters (0.3 miles) from Abadi's location during his visit, three security sources said.
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