Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook investigated for hate posts

German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings.

A spokesman for the Munich prosecutor's office declined on Friday to provide further details. German attorney Chan-jo Jun had filed a complaint with prosecutors in the Bavarian city in September and demanded that Facebook executives be compelled to comply with anti-hate speech laws by deleting racist or violent postings from its site.

Facebook's rules forbid bullying, harassment, and threatening language, but critics say it does not do enough to enforce them and has failed to staunch a tide of racist and threatening posts on the social network during an influx of refugees into Europe.

Prosecutors in Hamburg earlier this year rejected a similar complaint by Jun on the grounds that the regional court lacked jurisdiction because Facebook's 

Lucky escape for pregnant woman who reverses car off harbour wall

A pregnant driver has been rescued after reversing her car off a harbour wall.

Emergency crews were called to Military Road, Ramsgate, just before 6.30pm on Friday.

They found the woman trapped inside the car, which was wedged between the jetty and a pontoon.

Fire crews secured the vehicle using a winch, which allowed them to reach the driver and help her to safety.

According to the news website Kent Online, she did not suffer any injuries.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service said they would use a crane to lift the vehicle back onto the jetty.

Clinton attracts celebrity firepower as Trump goes it alone

Beyonce and Jay Z have delivered a powerful endorsement to Hillary Clinton as the US presidential campaign enters its final phase.

The Democratic candidate joined music's power couple on stage at a free concert in Cleveland, in the critical battleground state of Ohio.
Thousands had packed into a university venue to hear Jay Z - before the billionaire rapper and producer introduced his wife as a special guest.
People picking up tickets to the event had been encouraged to register to vote nearby.
The event was designed to encourage young and African-American voters to go to the polls.

Mrs Clinton asked the Cleveland crowd: "Will we reject a dark and divisive future and embrace a unified America?"

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In 2008, Jay Z performed free concerts in support of Barack Obama's presidential run.

He told fans that Donald Trump was "divisive" and would not be a president for him.

Beyonce said: "We have the opportunity to create more change. I want my daughter to grow up seeing a woman lead our country and know her possibilities are limitless."

But Mr Trump defended his go-it-alone approach, saying he did not need stars to draw thousands to his events.

"I didn't have to bring J-Lo or Jay Z," the Republican candidate told a crowded rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. "I am here all by myself. Just me. No guitar, no piano, no nothing."

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On the campaign trail, Mr Trump has continued to hammer the former Secretary of State's record and said she could not keep America safe.

He told a crowd in New Hampshire: "Her plans would mean generations of terrorism, extremism and radicalism spreading into your schools and through your communities."

He again promised to restore America and build a wall between the US and Mexico.

"To all Americans, I say we need new leadership."

And the current president has also returned to the campaign trail in North Carolina. 

Mr Obama interrupted his speech on a university campus to defend the right of a pro-Trump supporter in the crowd. He told them to "sit down and be quiet" and urged supporters to remain focused.

He is due to continue campaigning for Mrs Clinton through the weekend and until the night before election day on Tuesday.

Mr Trump and Mrs Clinton are spending Saturday campaigning in Florida, their last-ditch efforts to win support in a state where early voting has already exceeded 2012 levels.

The latest set of polls will provide a source of comfort for the Clinton campaign, in a race that appears to have tightened over recent days.

A Reuters/Ipsos survey shows Mrs Clinton ahead by five points, an ABC news poll puts her four points in front, and a Fox News poll has her two points ahead. 

But in the RealClear Politics polls of polls, Mrs Clinton's lead remains tight: 1.6 points ahead of Mr Trump.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that Mr Trump's wife Melania may have worked in the US as a model without the correct visa.

According to accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to the Associated Press, Mrs Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs worth more than $20,000 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the US.

In another development, intelligence services have warned that al Qaeda might be preparing attacks in three states ahead of Tuesday. Security is being tightened in New York, Texas and Virginia.

Sting gig to reopen Paris Bataclan concert hall before terror attacks anniversary

Sting will reopen the Bataclan concert hall in Paris with a gig on 12 November - a day before the anniversary of the terror attacks.

The British rock star said the concert would "honour" those killed in the attack a year ago.

Concertgoers at the venue were attacked on 13 November during coordinated terror attacks across the French capital.

Gunmen and suicide bombers also targeted the Stade de France and restaurants in the city.

Of the 130 people killed in the atrocities, 89 were at the Bataclan.

Announcing the concert in a statement on his website, the British rock star said: "In reopening the Bataclan, we have two important tasks to reconcile.

"First, to remember and honour those who lost their lives in the attack a year ago, and second to celebrate the life and the music that this historic theatre represents.

"In doing so we hope to respect the memory as well as the life affirming spirit of those who fell. We shall not forget them."

All revenues from the show will be donated to two charities - Life For Paris and 13 Novembre: Fraternite Verite - working with victims of the attacks.

In February, Eagles of Death Metal, the band on stage during the gun attack, played a gig for survivors of the shooting at the Olympia venue, a few miles from the concert hall.

South Korea's Park 'heartbroken' over scandal

South Korea's president has said she is "heartbroken" over a political scandal which is threatening her leadership.

She said she took sole responsibility for her close friend Choi Soon-sil's access to government documents and was willing to be investigated. 

Ms Choi is suspected of using her friendship with Ms Park to solicit business donations for a non-profit fund she controlled.

She was detained on Monday. A former aide to Ms Park was held on Thursday.

On Thursday, a spokesman for Seoul Central District Court said it had accepted a request from prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant for Ms Choi, on charges of fraud and abuse of power. 

Prosecutors have also said they are expanding their official investigation.

'Sad thoughts trouble my sleep'

The scandal has left Ms Park with an approval rating of just 5%.

She has already replaced her prime minster, reshuffled her cabinet and dismissed several aides, but there are growing calls for her resignation or impeachment. 

Ms Park has admitted letting Ms Choi help her with speeches, without security clearance, while there are also reports that Ms Choi was closely involved in forming government policy. 

In a brief televised address on Friday, an emotional Ms Park again apologised, saying she "put too much faith in a personal relationship and didn't look carefully at what was happening".

"Sad thoughts trouble my sleep at night. I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult to mend the hearts of the people, and then I feel a sense of shame and ask myself, 'Is this the reason I became president?'"

She said anyone found to have done wrong would be punished, and "if necessary, I'm determined to let prosecutors investigate me and accept an investigation by an independent counsel too".

But she denied speculation that her presidency had been influenced by a cult or that shamanistic rituals had been held at the presidential compound.

Ms Choi, a long-time friend of Ms Park's, is the daughter of Choi Tae-min, a shadowy quasi-religious leader who was closely linked to Ms Park's father, then-president Park Chung-hee.

A month after Hurricane Matthew, 800,000 Haitians urgently need food

FONDTOUTANU, Haiti — There is no food, so along the road through the mountains there are children begging for something to eat. Most of the trucks rumble past with donations for somewhere else. But one stopped here the other day with sacks of rice, beans and dried herring, setting off a stampede.

Valleur Noel, a trim, short man with a checkered shirt and a shiny crucifix, climbed to the top of the tailgate and told everyone to calm down. It was futile. His organization, Pwoje Men Kontre, had 412 bags of food, a gift from the German ambassador and U.S. donors. Within minutes there were people pouring through a notch between the mountains, hollering and stumbling down the rocky hillside toward the truck.

“No pushing, no pushing!” Noel yelled. “There is enough for everyone!”

It wasn’t true. The latecomers got nothing. But many others did, and Figaro Phito, 29, hugged his sack with both arms, like a pillow. “This will keep us alive until another donation arrives,” he said. “Because that is our only way to survive right now.”

A month after Hurricane Matthew blasted through southwestern Haiti, the region is a blighted, apocalyptic landscape of wrecked homes and growling hunger. At least 800,000 people need food urgently, according to the United Nations, including more than two-thirds of families in the worst-hit departments of Grand’Anse and Sud.

Emergency help is arriving, but there is not enough of it, and it will take several more weeks to reach remote mountain communities where officials say the destruction was total.

The desperation is so explosive that truckloads of food and medical supplies have been looted by crowds gathered along the roadways. A teenage boy was killed Tuesday by police in the city of Les Cayes, where hungry crowds burned tires and blocked roads. Haitian police shot four people, one fatally, on Oct. 26 in the coastal village of Dame Marie, where the arrival of an aid shipment sent crowds surging onto the docks. 

The Oct. 4 hurricane hit some of the poorest places in the Western hemisphere. It smashed fishing villages and shredded mountain hamlets with the force of a bomb blast, obliterating crops, killing livestock and leaving fruit trees as bare as matchsticks.

The Republican rift over the rise of Donald Trump

America's 'Grand Old Party' faces an uncertain future, even if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.

Republicans are wrestling with what Mr Trump's campaign means for the 160-year-old institution they like to call 'the party of Lincoln'.

In an extraordinary election year, senior Republicans have openly refused to back their party's nominee. Mr Trump has been scathing in his criticism of the party establishment.

If Mr Trump wins, where will those establishment figures fit after 8 November?

If he loses, where does the party start to rebuild?

"A lot of us are in agony because of the man who hijacked the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and trying to figure out what it means for the future of the party," said Phil Boas, editorial director of the Arizona Republic.

Image Caption:Mr Trump's controversial rhetoric has divided Republicans

The newspaper, originally called the Arizona Republican, broke with 126 years of tradition in endorsing a Democrat for president this year.

The city of Mesa in Arizona was named the most conservative in the country. Republican voters there are aghast at what's going on.

Peter Budd says Mr Trump thrived because of the disconnect between politicians and people.

He said: "I don't blame Donald Trump, the Republican Party has shot itself in the foot. They need to get in touch with the base so we believe they care about us again."

Image Caption:Sky's Greg Milam reports from Mesa, Arizona

Today's Republican movement could not be further from the optimistic place occupied by the president they still revere.

Thirty-six years after Ronald Reagan's win, they are still searching for someone who can sell conservative ideals to a broad swathe of the American people.

"Reagan didn't speak to Republicans, he spoke to Americans," said radio talk show host Mike Broomhead. "Americans felt like he stood up for them."

It is that sort of leadership that many Republicans say is lacking today. 

The latest chapter of the search encompasses John McCain's loss in 2008, the rise of the Tea Party in 2010 and defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012. After that loss, the party agreed it needed to be more open and inclusive.

Not surprisingly, the chairman of the Arizona Republican Party sees the positives.

Robert Graham said: "It is one of our greatest values - sometimes it creates contention - that we don't want people just to line up. We want people to actually engage in debate."

At the moment Republicans risk losing power in Congress as well as remaining out of the White House. It makes this a critical time.

Republican strategist Shane Wickfors said: "I'm hoping that the Republicans can forgive one another and come back together and be unified and move forward with a better future.

"Somebody as a leader has to come out and inspire them to re-engage."

Party supporters remain hopeful that's what will emerge.

Mr Boas said: "The wheels fell off the party but the wheels will be put back on because a conservative party is essential to this nation."