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| Ten children stabbed outside school gate in southern China | | | A knife-wielding attacker stabbed ten school children in southern China on Monday, severely injuring two, before killing himself, state media reported, the latest in a series of school attacks in the country. The attacker stabbed six boys and four girls outside the gate of an elementary school in the city of Haikou, on the southern island province of Hainan, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported on its microblog. The children were taken to hospital, with two being treated for serious injuries that were not life threatening, CCTV said. |
| Former Bayern boss Hoeness given early release from jail | |  Former Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness has been released from prison on suspension after serving half of his 3-1/2-year jail term for tax evasion, Bavaria's Justice Ministry said on Monday. The former Bayern Munich player, who was sports director for 30 years before taking over as club president in 2009, was convicted in March 2014 for evading 28.5 million euros ($31.14 million) in taxes. The 1974 World Cup winner stepped down from his post at Bayern and started his jail term in June 2014.
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| North Korea says detained U.S. student confessed to stealing political slogan | | | By James Pearson and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - An American student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to "severe crimes" against the state, the North's official media said on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 21, a student at the University of Virginia, was detained before boarding his flight to China over an unspecified incident at his hotel, his tour agency told Reuters in January. North Korea has a long history of detaining foreigners and has used jailed U.S. citizens in the past to extract high-profile visits from the United States, with which it has no formal diplomatic relations. |
| Former Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster | |  Three former Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) executives were indicted on Monday for failing to take safety measures to prevent the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, a Tokyo District Court official said. The indictments, forced through by a civilian judicial panel, are the first against officials at Tepco and come just before the fifth anniversary of the meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear station north of Tokyo. The three are former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, and former executive vice presidents Sakae Muto, 65, and Ichiro Takekuro, 69.
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| Pakistan hangs man who killed governor over call to reform blasphemy law | |  By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday executed a man who killed the governor of Punjab province over his call to reform strict blasphemy laws that carry a death sentence for insulting Islam. Mumtaz Qadri, a bodyguard for Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province, shot him dead in the capital, Islamabad, in 2011. "Qadri was hanged at around 4:30 a.m.," senior police officer Rizwan Omar Gondal said.
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| Indonesia demolishes capital's largest red-light district | |  Bulldozers started demolishing hundreds of buildings in the Indonesian capital's largest red-light district on Monday as part of a nationwide effort to eradicate prostitution in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. Jakarta's Kalijodo, long home to thousands of sex workers, is the latest of nearly 70 red-light districts shut down in Indonesia. Prostitution is illegal in Indonesia but rampant in most major cities.
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| "Radical" candidate in Hong Kong poll exposes underlying tensions | |  By Stefanie McIntyre and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative council by-election, with a "radical" pro-democracy candidate who was arrested in a recent riot running in what is being seen as a barometer of political tension in the financial hub. Candidates from across the political spectrum contested the poll that was narrowly won by Alvin Yeung of the pro-democracy Civic Party, but most attention focused on Edward Leung, a leader of "Hong Kong Indigenous" and one of the first street activists to make a foray into mainstream politics. Leung placed third, after Yeung and Holden Chow, a candidate from the city's biggest pro-Beijing party, with about 15 percent of the 432,000 votes cast, a surprisingly strong showing.
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