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North Korea crisis: US bombers conduct military drills
The US has conducted a joint military exercise with South Korea, flying two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula.
The B-1B combat bombers were joined by two South Korean F-15K fighter jets, and carried out air-to-ground missile drills off South Korean waters.
It comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear programme.
Pyongyang conducted its sixth nuclear test, and launched two missiles over Japan, in recent months.
The bombers took off from the US Pacific territory of Guam on Tuesday night, before entering South Korean airspace and conducting firing exercises over the East Sea and Yellow Sea, South Korea's military said.
The training was part of a programme of "extended deterrence" against North Korea, it added.

The US said Japan's air force also took part in the drill.
US President Donald Trump met top officials from his national security team on Tuesday night for a briefing on ways to respond to threats from North Korea, the White House said.
Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have exchanged heated rhetoric in recent weeks.
In a speech at the UN in September, Mr Trump accused Mr Kim of being "on a suicide mission" - while Mr Kim responded by vowing to "tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
On Wednesday, a South Korean lawmaker said North Korean hackers had reportedly stolen a large cache of military documents from his country, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, and wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.
The South Korean defence ministry refused to comment about the allegation, while North Korea denied the claim.

Health
Child and teen obesity spreading across the globe
Child and teenage obesity levels have risen ten-fold in the last four decades, meaning 124m boys and girls around the globe are too fat, according to new research.
The analysis in the Lancet is the largest of its kind and looks at obesity trends in over 200 countries.
In the UK, one in every 10 young people aged five to 19, is obese.
Obese children are likely to become obese adults, putting them at risk of serious health problems, say experts.
The Lancet analysis, released on World Obesity Day, comes as researchers from the World Obesity Federation warn that the global cost of treating ill health caused by obesity will exceed £920bn every year from 2025.
Obese the new 'norm'
Although child obesity rates appear to be stabilising in many high-income European countries, including the UK, they are accelerating at an alarming rate in many other parts of the world, lead researcher Prof Majid Ezzati from Imperial College London says.
Researchers believe wide availability and promotion of cheap, fattening food is one of the main drivers.
The largest increase in the number of obese children and adolescents has been in East Asia. China and India have seen rates "balloon" in recent years.
Polynesia and Micronesia have the highest rate of all - around half of the young population in these countries is overweight or obese.
The researchers say that if current world trends continue, 'obese' will soon be more common than 'underweight'.
The number of underweight girls and boys worldwide has been decreasing since a peak in the year 2000. Dr Alison Tedstone, chief nutritionist at Public Health England, said: "Our sugar reduction programme and the government's sugar levy are world-leading, but this is just the beginning of a long journey to tackle the challenge of a generation.
"The evidence is clear, that just telling people what to do won't work. Whilst education and information are important, deeper actions are needed to help us lower calorie consumption and achieve healthier diets."

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A draw enough in Peru to seal Colombia's passage to World Cup 2018 in Russia
Colombia's national soccer team on Tuesday qualified for next year's World Cup in Russia with a hard fought 1-1 draw against Peru in the final round of matches in the CONMEBOL South American campaign.
In a dramatic night of action across the continent, Colombia joined Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina in qualifying directly to world football's most prestigious showpiece.
A second half goal from Bayern Munich's James Rodriguez was cancelled out by the conversion of a free kick by veteran Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero, the draw meaning that Peru will now go forward to play New Zealand in an inter-confederation play-off in November.
Peru eventually managed to secure dominance over possession but a compact Colombian side worked hard to prevent the possession resulting in any clear-cut opportunities.
Meanwhile, Colombia sought to use winger Juan Cuadrado as an outlet on the right as well as the powerful Duvan Zapata up front to pose problems for the Peruvians on the counter attack.
A 12th minute James Rodriguez shot and a 21st minute header from Peru's Guerrero made up the sum of the significant attempts on goal by both sides in a first half bereft of fluidity and invention.
The second half continued in similar fashion until a long direct ball from Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina was flicked on by Duvan Zapata into the Peru box in the 55th minute.
Radamel Falcao battled eagerly to touch the ball onto the advancing James who slotted past Pedro Gallese in the Peruvian goal to give "La Tricolor" the lead.

Pekerman's side experienced a period of dominance after the goal with James testing Gallese again in the 61st minute and Cuadrado going close in the 67th minute from a free kick.

Pekerman introduced midfielder Wilmar Barrios in the 71st minute for striker Zapata as Colombia sought to close out the result but this allowed Peru to get back into the game.
While Colombia continued to be compact in defense, the concession of a free kick on the edge of the box in the 75th minute proved to be decisive.
Despite the referee indicating that the free was indirect, a powerful strike from Flamengo's Guerrero took a touch from Ospina en route to the Colombian net giving the the Peruvians a life line in their quest to secure fifth place in the group.
With news of other results filtering into the stadium, the closing stages played out in tentative fashion with both sides almost assured of their fates.
In a bizarre final two minutes, Peru stroked the ball around the middle of the field unopposed by the Colombians as the two sides apparently settled for the draw



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China's hybrid rice yield hits record high
   
Yuan Longping (second from left), a hybrid rice expert, checks a new strain of hybrid rice at a pilot field in Handan, Hebei province, on Oct 15, 2017.
A new type of hybrid rice grown in China has become the highest-yielding one in the world, said a report by Science and Technology Daily on Sunday.
The pilot rice fields in Handan, Hebei province, were harvested on Sunday. The three plots yielded 17.2 tons per hectare on average, according to a group of agricultural experts who measured the harvest. Of the three plots, the one with the highest yield reached 17.7 tons per hectare, which is a new world record.
The new variety, called Xiang Liangyou 900, was cultivated by a team led by Yuan Longping, who is known as "the father of hybrid rice" in China.

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A metro in Bogota: so close yet so far
https://colombiareports.com/metro-bogota-close-yet-far/ Atticus Ballesteros October( 2017)

Colombia's national authorities have given a green light to a metro system in the capital Bogota, but the future of the project remains uncertain.

On September 25, Colombia's National Political-Economic and Social Committee (CONPES) approved a proposal for the national government to finance 70% of Bogota's proposed above-ground metro system, 75 years after the mass transit idea was first mooted.


With CONPES' decision, the metro is now a financially viable project, but it will only move forward if local and national governments take bureaucratic steps they have failed to take in the past.

At an estimated cost of $4.1 billion, the metro will be financed with approximately $3 billion from the national government and $1.28 billion from the City. That's the recommendation CONPES made to the national and local governments, but the co-financing agreement still needs to be formalized in an official contract.

Mayor Enrique Peñalosa now needs Bogota City Council to approve future budgets for the metro, and the national government needs a National Fiscal Policy Committee to approve the government's future budgets as well before the project can move forward.
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Griffiths, CNN Updated 0203 GMT (1003 HKT) (2017)http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/21/asia/hong-kong-dolphins/index.html
Soon all of Hong Kong's dolphins will be dead
Why saving the pink dolphin may mean reinventing the city
Hong Kong (CNN)A near constant wind buffets the top deck of Boat 36826 as it patrols the seas north of Hong Kong's largest island, Lantau.
Sitting in a white plastic lawn chair, staring intently through a pair of large, black binoculars, Charlotte Lau pulls a multicolored scarf high over her face and zips up her grey hoodie.
Down a steep staircase in the boat's main cabin, her boss Taison Chang sorts through the supplies piled on seats and a wide, curved table -- maps and charts, a GPS tracker, snacks, waterproofs, two-expensive cameras with long lenses, and several bottles of suncream in defiance of the dreary skies overhead.
Next to Lau, holding a walkie-talkie and shivering in a blue t-shirt, Viena Mak writes on a clipboard as her co-worker says: "no sighting."
It's a phrase the trio are becoming depressingly used to. They work for the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society (HKDCS), which sends researchers out almost every day, no matter the weather, to search the city's waters for an ever-shrinking population of dolphins.
Their relentless work matters, not just to keep a few individual animals alive, but as a test of whether Hong Kongers can have more of a say in how their city progresses, take a step back from the mega projects and uninhibited development that have characterized Hong Kong for decades, and act to preserve what made it special in the first place.


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Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien.
Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players.
The AlphaGo program, devised by the tech giant's AI division, has already beaten two of the world's best players.
It had started by learning from thousands of games played by humans.
But the new AlphaGo Zero began with a blank Go board and no data apart from the rules, and then played itself.
Within 72 hours it was good enough to beat the original program by 100 games to zero.
DeepMind's chief executive, Demis Hassabis, said the system could now have more general applications in scientific research.
"We're quite excited because we think this is now good enough to make some real progress on some real problems even though we're obviously a long way from full AI," he told the BBC and other journalists.
The London-based artificial intelligence company's software defeated leading South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol by four games to one last year.
In a game where there are more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe, it was a triumph for machine over man and one that came much earlier than many in the AI world had expected.
AlphaGo followed this with the defeat of the world's number one Go player, China's Ke Jie, in May.
As with many advances in this field, the achievements required the combination of vast amounts of data - in this case records of thousands of games - and a lot of computer-processing power
David Silver, who led that effort, says the team took a very different approach with AlphaGo Zero.
"The new version starts from a neural network that knows nothing at all about the game of Go," he explained.
"The only knowledge it has is the rules of the game. Apart from that, it figures everything out just by playing games against itself."
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Colombia recovers copy of declaration of independence that got lost in guerrilla attack.
An extremely rare copy of Colombia's declaration of independence has been recovered from a government building that was abandoned in 1999 after a guerrilla attack.
The announcement was made by the director of the National Archive, Armando Martinez, after the invaluable document had been brought to him by government officials from the small town of Silvia, Cauca.
According to Martinez, the found declaration of independence is only the third known surviving copy of the 1810 document in which Colombia declared its independence from Spanish rule.
The document had been missing since 1999 when a FARC unit attacked Silvia, and partially destroyed the local government office where the declaration of independence had been decorating a wall as long as locals could remember.
After authorities were able to retake the town, the local administration moved to a new building, leaving the antique document under the rubble and dust left by the guerrillas.
According to National Archive director Armando Martinez he document found in Silvia is the third known copy of the original act of independence.
The national archive will keep the found copy. Silvia will receive a replica of the document that will be given a spot on the wall in the city council building that owned the document until the fateful guerrilla attack.
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World's first floating wind farm starts generating electricity.
The world's first floating wind farm has started delivering electricity to the Scottish grid.
Five giant turbines have been tethered to the seabed about 15 miles from Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.
The wind farm has been officially opened by Nicola Sturgeon.
The first minister said the project, which will generate enough power for about 20,000 homes, was testament to Scotland's "international reputation" for renewable energy.
World's first floating wind farm emerges off Scotland.
At 175m from sea surface to blade tip, the turbines are almost as tall as the Queensferry Crossing.
They extend another 78 meters below the surface and are chained to the seabed to stay in place.
Norwegian energy firm Statoil has been working on developing the project, known as Hywind, for more than 15 years.
So far, one giant turbine has already been moved into place, while four more wait in readiness in a Norwegian fjord.
While the turbines are currently very expensive to make, Statoil believes that in the future it will be able to dramatically reduce costs in the same way that manufacturers already have for conventional offshore turbines.
Floating turbines may create a new frontier for energy - but scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn far more investment in additional new technologies is urgently needed for governments to keep promises on reducing emissions.
 

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Pablo Neruda 'did not die of cancer', say experts
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda did not die of prostate cancer, forensic experts have said.
The Nobel Laureate was said to have died of cancer in 1973, less than two weeks after a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
But his former driver Manuel Araya maintains he actually died after being poisoned by the secret service.
New tests on Neruda's remains have now confirmed he did not die of cancer, but have yet to reveal the actual cause.
" The mystery of Pablo Neruda's death
Dr Aurelio Luna told a press conference the experts were "100% convinced" that the death certificate "does not reflect the reality of the death".
The poet was suffering from prostate cancer, but it was not life-threatening - leading the 16 international experts to conclude a third party could have possibly been involved.
They will now carry out tests on a toxin found in his remains, which were exhumed on a judge's orders in 2013. It could be up to a year before the results are known.
Neruda was a supporter and personal friend of Chile's deposed socialist President, Salvador Allende.
The poet died on 23 September 1973, 12 days after the military coup and three days after he had been offered asylum in Mexico.
According to Mr Araya, the day he died he called to say he had been injected in the stomach while he was asleep, and to come to the hospital quickly.
Neruda died that evening, and Mr Araya says he has no doubt what killed him.
"Until the day I die I will not alter my story," Mr Araya told the BBC in 2013.
"Neruda was murdered. They didn't want Neruda to leave the country so they killed him."


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Britain talks new trade deals with Colombia, Peru and Ecuador
British officials are in talks with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to use the three countries' existing trade agreement with the European Union as the basis for forming new deals after Brexit, the British embassy in Lima said on Wednesday.
Britain has courted new trade deals from India to Canada as it prepares for its 2019 scheduled departure from the European Union, the world's largest trading bloc.
The vote last year to leave the EU was widely seen as a setback to global efforts to reduce trade barriers, but London said it offers new opportunities.
"As we leave the EU, we need to look outwards and be a beacon for free trade by forging independent trading arrangements," British Minister for Trade Policy Greg Hands said in a statement from the embassy.
Hands was in Lima on Wednesday to meet with Peru's Trade Minister Eduardo Ferreyros, the embassy said. Other British officials have also met recently with their Ecuadorian and Colombian counterparts, it added.

Sports

Usain Bolt wants to start football career in 2018 - and reveals "a lot of clubs have reached out"
The Jamaican retired from athletics after the World Championships in London earlier this year

Olympic legend Usain Bolt wants to begin his football career next year.
The Jamaican retired from athletics after the World Championships in London earlier this year.
He has previously revealed his dream to become a footballer once he bid farewell to the track.
And Bolt, 31, wants to start the new chapter in 2018 when he has recovered from his hamstring injury.
"I would love to play football now I've retired from track and field," he told FIFA.com
"I've been talking about it in interviews and a lot of clubs have reached out.
"Unfortunately, I got a bad hamstring injury in August and haven't been able to do any training since then.
"Hopefully I will be able to play some games in 2018."
Bolt is a big Manchester United fan and was offered a trial at Championship side Burton by chairman Ben Robinson.
But boss Nigel Clough dismissed the suggestions.
"Would that be a loan or permanent? I'm not quite sure," he said.
"He would certainly add some pace. As long as he doesn't want much money I'm sure we will be OK."



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Suspected leptospirosis cases increasing in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Puerto Rico has reported at least 76 cases of suspected and confirmed leptospirosis, including a handful of deaths, in the month after Hurricane Maria, said Dr. Carmen Deseda, the state epidemiologist for Puerto Rico.
Two deaths involved leptospirosis confirmed through laboratory testing, and "several other" deaths are pending test results, Deseda said. The 76 cases, up from 74 last week, also include one patient with confirmed leptospirosis who is currently hospitalized.
"This bacteria, like any other bacteria, can kill you," Deseda said.
The island typically sees between 63 and 95 cases per year, she said. Health officials had expected that there would be a jump after the hurricane.
"It's neither an epidemic nor a confirmed outbreak," Public Affairs Secretary Ramon Rosario Cortes said at a news conference Sunday. "But obviously, we are making all the announcements as though it were a health emergency."
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Taxis on strike in Colombia's capital Bogota
Taxi drivers in Colombia's capital Bogota have gone on strike to protest new services like Uber and government conditions put on price hikes.
While some taxis are expected to continue services, others announced late Sunday they would hold protest meetings on 14 locations spread throughout the city of 7 million.
The indefinite strike seeks government measures to ban informal taxi services like Uber and government assistance in replacing the current taxi counters.
Taxi spokesperson Hugo Ospina told Caracol Radio the taxi drivers agree with a government decision to raise fare prices that was announced on Sunday.
The taxis oppose, however, that taxi drivers have to purchase a digital fare system before being allowed to raise their prices.
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Lonely Planet's top 10 cities to visit in 2018
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1. Seville, Spain
2. Detroit, USA
3. Canberra, Australia
4. Hamburg, Germany
5. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
6. Antwerp, Belgium
7. Matera, Italy
8. San Juan, Puerto Rico
9. Guanajuato, Mexico
10. Oslo, Norway

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