Image copyrightONE LOVE INCImage captionTonga's first skate ramp draws in dozens of local danger-seekers
An American family living in Tonga has set up the first skateboard ramp on the Pacific island of Tonga in an effort to steer young people away from drugs and crime.
Chris and Ashley Paquette and their One Love organisation built the ramp in the village of Puke near the capital Nuku'alofa, and it attracts up to 60 skateboarding enthusiasts, Radio New Zealand reports. Speaking to the radio, Mr Paquette said the scheme was a response to the age-old problem of bored young people with nothing to do drifting into a life of crime. "So when they get out of school, they end up getting in trouble," he notes, going on to say that the new ramp means youngsters don't have time to misbehave: "When they get home from school they have to do their chores before they can come and skate, and they just skate all day."
According to the Kaniva News website, the Puke skate ramp was paid for by an online fundraiser, as well as donations from island-based businesses. Mr Paquette has previous experience of building skate parks in his native America, but with no businesses stocking skateboards for hundreds of miles, One Love has relied on the generosity of others to keep the scheme rolling. "We started out with two skateboards and 15 kids, and now we have 12 skateboards thanks to a few people who donated boards," he told Kaniva News.
The scheme also has the support of the Tongan government. Acknowledging the kingdom's problematic crime rate, Onetoto 'Anisi of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Radio New Zealand that the skate ramp allows local youths to "spend their time as young people, rather than causing crime". One Love volunteer Samuel Hafoka puts the ramp's popularity down to one factor - danger. "I would say it's the intensity. The fact that you are running a very thin line between good skill and possibly getting hurt on the side," he told Radio New Zealand.
Image copyrightONE LOVE INCImage captionLocal children are becoming expert skaters, and safety equipment is the next priorit
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionIran already limits what sites its citizens have access to
Iran has announced it has completed the first phase of its plan to operate a "national internet".
An inauguration ceremony was held on Sunday by the country's communications and information technology minister, Mahmoud Vaezi.
The state news agency Irna said the initiative would offer "high quality, high speed" connections at "low costs".
But critics suggest the true aim is to tighten the authorities' control over citizens' use of the net.
Although Iran already blocks access to overseas-based social media services - including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - many users still access them via proxy sites and virtual private networks (VPNs).
'Inefficient' filters
The idea behind the project was first made public in 2010, and it was originally intended to be fully operational by 2015.
The government says the goal is to create an isolated domestic intranet that can be used to promote Islamic content and raise digital awareness among the public.
It intends to replace the current system, in which officials seek to limit which parts of the existing internet people have access to via filters - an effort Mr Vaezi described as being "inefficient".
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMr Vaezi said that whenever the government tried to filter access to a site, "an alternative" would appear in its place
"All domestic activities, services, applications [and] various types of contents... are included in the national internet," he declared at the launch.
The minister added that the initiative would make it easier to combat cyber-threats. At the ceremony, another official said the Information Technology ministry had recently had to combat several distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks - attempts to overwhelm its computer servers by flooding them with traffic.
the first phase of the rollout involves providing access to e-government services and domestic web pages
a second phase, due in February 2017, will add domestic video content
a third phase, due in March 2017, will introduce further services and provide support for companies involved in international trade
Local reports state that users' privacy will be respected.
But the British human rights campaign group Article 19 has warned that this might not be the case.
Image copyrightTHINKSTOCKImage captionThe "national network" is said to be isolated from the wider internet
"Given Iran's record in violating its human rights commitments based on civil and political (including religious and ethnic) grounds, the development of projects such as the national internet are especially concerning," it said in a report published earlier this year.
"The National Internet Project could pave the way for further isolation, surveillance and information retention.
"[It] risks severely isolating the Iranian people from the rest of the online world, limiting access to information and constraining attempts at collective action and public protest."
Rousseff tells the Senate: "I look in your eyes [with] nothing to hide"
Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff has defended her record during her impeachment trial in the Senate.
She is accused of illegally manipulating the budget to hide a growing deficit.
Ms Rousseff said her conscience was "absolutely clean" and that she had not committed any crime.
Senators are due to vote later this week on whether to remove her from office for good or whether to reinstate her.
Ms Rousseff is accused of moving funds between government budgets, which is illegal under Brazilian law.
Her critics say she was trying to plug deficit holes in popular social programmes to boost her chances of being re-elected for a second term in October 2014.
Ms Rousseff began her defence by reminding senators that she had been re-elected by more than 54 million voters.
She said she had always honoured and upheld the Constitution.
She also reminded senators of her past as a resistance fighter who opposed military rule.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionFormer President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva watched on as Ms Rousseff spoke
She said that even when she was tortured she continued to fight.
Her fight, she said, had been for a more equal society and that the achievements of her government in that field were now "at risk".
She added that she was determined to continue her fight against the attacks against her, which she said amounted to a "coup".
Ms Rousseff said she had been "unjustly accused" of crimes she said she had not committed. "I can't help but taste the bitterness of injustice," she said.
'Vote for democracy!'
She also warned of the dangers she said the interim government of acting President Michel Temer posed.
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMs Rousseff said the government of Michel Temer was planning to reverse important achievements by her administration
Ms Rousseff said Mr Temer's administration would limit public spending and act in the interest of a small economic elite.
"The future of Brazil is at stake," she said.
She ended her defence by again talking about her time in captivity, briefly choking with emotion when she mentioned the torture she had endured "for days on end".
She thanked those senators who had fought for her to be cleared of the charges before asking those who were opposed to her to "vote against the impeachment, vote for democracy!".
Senators from her Workers' Party stood up and applauded once she had finished, while her opponents sat in their seats stony-faced.
Brazilian media focuses on "coup" line
Image copyrightESTADAOImage captionBrazilian newspapers focused mainly on Ms Rousseff's allegation that she is the victim of an attempted coup
Many of Brazil's news media set up live pages online to allow their readers to follow Monday's impeachment proceedings in the Senate.
Newspapers O Estado de Sao Paulo and O Globo, and news magazines Carta Capital and Veja, all highlighted the same line from Ms Rousseff's address in which she warned that Brazil "was one step away from a coup".
Daily Folha de Sao Paulo on the other hand picked out Ms Rousseff's final appeal to Senators: "I ask you to vote against the impeachment and for democracy".
Many Brazilian papers also quoted Ms Rousseff's line that those backing her impeachment were putting Brazil's democracy at risk through "moral violence and [by using a] constitutional pretext".
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For her to be removed from the presidency permanently, 54 of the 81 senators would have to vote for her impeachment.
Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo says it has spoken to all the senators ahead of the vote and that 52 have so far declared themselves in favour of the impeachment.
Eighteen told the newspaper they were opposed to the impeachment and 11 either did not say which way they would vote or were undecided.
Divided opinion
If Ms Rousseff, 68, is impeached, acting President Michel Temer will serve out her term, which ends in December 2018.
Mr Temer, who was Ms Rousseff's vice-president, assumed the role of acting president in May when Ms Rousseff was suspended from office pending the impeachment trial.
Image copyrightAPImage captionAbout 200 people gathered outside the Senate building in Brasilia to lend their support to Ms Rousseff
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Image copyrightAFPImage captionTurkey says it will not tolerate Kurdish forces operating west of the Euphrates
The US says fighting between Turkey, pro-Turkish rebels and Kurdish-aligned forces in northern Syria is "unacceptable" and must stop.
Clashes in places where so-called Islamic State (IS) was not present were a "source of deep concern", the US envoy to the anti-IS coalition tweeted.
Turkish forces have attacked what they say are Kurdish "terrorists" since crossing the border last week.
But the Kurdish YPG militia says Turkey just wants to occupy Syrian territory.
Ankara says it aims to push both IS and Kurdish fighters away from its border.
Turkish forces and allied factions of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) forced IS out of the Syrian border city of Jarablus on Tuesday and have since pounded neighbouring villages held by Kurdish-led, US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Turkish military carried out 61 artillery strikes around Jarablus over the past 24 hours Reuters news agency reported on Monday,
Turkey has insisted Kurdish militia, which it regards as terrorists, retreat east across the Euphrates river.
The Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the SDF, says its forces have withdrawn, and that the Turkish action against the group was a "pretext" for occupying Syria.
The US Pentagon spokesman renewed Washington's call for the YPG to pull back over the river, which he said had "largely occurred".
He warned that unco-ordinated operations "provide room for ISIL [IS] to find sanctuary and continue planning attacks against Turkey, the SDF, the United States, and our partners around the world".
Turkish concern over Kurdish expansion increased after the SDF took control of the strategic Syrian city of Manbij from IS two weeks ago.
Turkey has been fighting a Kurdish insurgency in its south-east for decades and fears Kurdish gains in northern Syria will fuel Kurdish separatism at home.
Turkish-backed forces moved towards Manbij, 20 miles (30 km) south of Turkey's border, on Monday, Reuters reported.
On Sunday, tens of people were killed in Turkish air strikes on Kurdish-held areas near Jarablus.
A monitoring group said at least 35 civilians and four militants had been killed, while the Turkish military said 25 people, all Kurdish militants, died.
Analysis: Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Washington
The liberation of Jarablus - the last remaining IS stronghold on the Turkish border - should have been cause for celebration for the US, Turkey and the groups fighting jihadist militants in northern Syria. Instead it's opened up a whole new set of potential conflicts between Turkey and the Kurdish militias, with the US stuck in the middle.
Washington has long seen the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces as among the most capable in the fight against IS and has supplied training and weaponry to them. But its Nato ally, Turkey, has taken a dim view of that backing.
Add to all that the recent coup attempt in Turkey - which Ankara believes the US was far too slow to condemn - and there's a significant risk of increased instability in a region already torn apart by five years of civil war.
The US always knew the coalitions it was putting together in this part of the world would be fragile - it will now have to use all its diplomatic might to hold things together.
US anti-IS coalition envoy Brett McGurk tweeted from a Defense Department briefing, saying the US "was not involved in these activities, they were not coordinated with US forces and we do not support them.
"Accordingly, we call on all armed actors to stand down and take appropriate measures to deconflict and open channels of communication."
Image copyrightCHANNEL 5Image captionDarrell Ward had been on his way to start filming a new TV documentary
Darrell Ward, one of the long-haul drivers made famous on TV's Ice Road Truckers, has been killed in a plane crash at the age of 52.
Ward, from Montana, has been one of the featured drivers for the last five of the History Channel show's 10 seasons.
The show follows drivers as they battle the elements to deliver supplies to remote communities in northern Canada.
In the UK, the latest series of Ice Road Truckers had around 900,000 viewers per episode on Channel 5.
A statement on Ward's Facebook page said he had been travelling from a truck show in Dallas, Texas, to start filming the pilot for new a documentary about the recovery of plane wrecks in Montana.
The statement said his co-pilot, who was unnamed, also died in the crash,
'Any road, any load'
"Trucking has always been a large part of Darrell's life; from running the harvest rigs with his grandparents and family, to driving trucks from Montana to Alaska and all roads in between," it read.
"In his free time, you could usually find Darrell giving back to the community any chance he got, he had promoted the most recent food drive to help victims in the Louisiana Floods and was scheduled to appear as the grand marshal for the Truck Convoy for Special Olympics in Nova Scotia."
The message added: "His motto, 'any road, any load' fits his personality perfectly."
A statement from History said: "We are saddened by the tragic loss of Darrell Ward, a beloved member of the History family.
"He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his family during this difficult time."
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