bbc.com Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed as a result of a Russian-made 9M38 Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board says. The missile hit the front left of the plane, as a result of which part of the plane broke off, it said in a final report into the disaster.

reuters Playboy will no longer publish nude photographs of women, the New York Times reported on Monday in an article quoting Scott Flanders, the company's chief executive.

bbc.com Photos of female cabin crew lying in the overhead luggage compartments on board a Chinese airline have gone viral on social media. Kunming Airlines has issued a statement saying it was investigating the matter.


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bangkokpost.com Charges will be brought against people who rioted outside the Thalang district police station in Phuket, set fire to many vehicles and damaged government property on Saturday night, national police chief Chakthip Chaichinda said. Police knew the names of the instigators.

nationmultimedia.com Some injured police officers of Phuket's Thalang district testified that protesters attacked them early Sunday during the riot and they did not respond to the attackers. Seventeen police were treated at Vachira Phuket Hospital.

Phuket Update Phuketwan has urged the people of Baan Don to accept that arrests must follow and not to resort to angry protest and violence again. In now carrying out the law, officers on Phuket are likely to face stubborn resistance, or worse.



globalpost.com Instead of responding to the refugee challenge, leaders in the rich world have devised ways to keep people outside their borders or away from their shores while thousands die at sea or endure squalid conditions in the shadow of razor-wire fences. This is moral bankruptcy.



Phuket Update The grand opening of the 600 million baht Dibuk Hospital on Chao Fa West Rd - Phuket's eighth hospital - marked the medical facility's formal transition from a clinic to a hospital as recognised by the Ministry of Health.

bangkokpost.com The lawyer defending two Myanmar migrants in the murders of two British tourists on Koh Tao accused police of torturing his clients, beating them and threatening to ''make them disappear'' in order to extract confessions.

nationmultimedia.com Even though the recently agreed Trans-Pacific Partnership will not come into force until it is ratified by its member states, Thailand will immediately lose export orders and see its competitiveness decline next year, a seminar heard, and foreign direct investment will be the next casualty.

reuters US forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.

nationmultimedia.com Police and local administrative bodies are still the agencies that attract the most public complaints, Auditor-General Sriracha Charoenpanit said in his review of his agency's achievements in 2015 fiscal year.

nytimes.com Chinese men now smoke one-third of all the world's cigarettes, and a third of all young men in China are doomed to eventually die from the habit, scientists in China and Britain have concluded.

smh.com.au On the first day of class next August, thousands of Texas students will arm themselves with plastic dildos to demonstrate their displeasure with the new laws that allow university students to carry hidden handguns.

foxnews.com A Thai court decided to put a Hong Kong photojournalist on trial for possession of a bulletproof vest and a helmet, which are considered weapons in Thailand. Hok Chun Anthony Kwan, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was detained when he was about to board a plane on August 23.

heraldscotland.com Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, an American dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, a cabinet minister said.

bbc.com A Somali woman who became pregnant after allegedly being raped on Nauru has arrived in Australia. The woman, 23, had requested weeks ago to be transferred from Nauru, part of Australia's offshore network housing people seeking asylum, to Australia so she could have an abortion.



washingtonpost.com The World Health Organisation reported that an eight-year-old boy in Laos became paralysed from the polio virus in early September and died five days later. The case is believed to be the first infection in the country since 1993 and is part of an alarming reemergence of polio around the world in recent months.



nationmultimedia.com Fifa banned Football Association of Thailand president Worawi Makudi for 90 days from all football-related activities with immediate effect for what it said was a breach of its ethics code.



Phuket Update Phuket's Chinese shrines are taking part in the annual Vegetarian Festival with daily parades.

October 13-21 Phuket Vegetarian Festival

November Patong Festival

November 20 Laguna Phuket Triathlon

November 25 Loy Kratong festival

November 29 Challenge Laguna Phuket 2015

November 29 Phuket King's Cup Regatta

December 5 HM The King's Birthday

December 26 Tsunami memorial ceremonies



January 7-10 Phuket International Boat Show