China pushes 'patriotic' tours in South China Sea: report and other top stories.

• China pushes 'patriotic' tours in South China Sea: report

  AFP on May 27, 2016, 4:34 pm China pushes 'patriotic' tours in South China Sea: report Beijing (AFP) - China will turn contested islands in the South China Sea into pleasure-trip destinations for "patriotic" tourists, state-media said Friday, in a move likely to further stoke regional tensions.China claims almost all of the strategically vital South China Sea despite rival claims from Southeast Asian neighbours and has rapidly built reefs into artificial islands capable of hosting..

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• Guardian admits to fabrication by freelancer

  

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• Britain at the crossroads

  

  Britain's June 23 vote regarding exit from the EU is the most important European vote since 1945. Adobe stock photo Enlarge photo» LONDON — Sixty-five years ago, what has become the European Union was an embryo conceived in fear. It has been stealthily advanced from an economic to a political project, and it remains enveloped in a watery utopianism even as it becomes more dystopian. The EU's economic stagnation — in some of the 28 member nations, youth unemployment approaches 50 percent — ..

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• 60 Minutes Beirut review: Producer Stephen Rice gone as report finds systemic failures

  

  60 Minutes review: 'not worth the risk' Following the release of an independent review of the Sally Faulkner story, former 60 minutes producer and review panelist Gerald Stone says he would not have commissioned that story. PT2M8S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-4fni0 620 349 May 27, 2016 - 5:26PM Stephen Rice, the producer who spent two weeks in a Lebanese jail, appears to have taken the fall for the 60 Minutes child snatch fiasco, even though a so-called "i..

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• Underwater probes sent to EgyptAir search zone after 'radio signals detected'

  

  France's BEA air crash investigation agency said French naval survey vessel Laplace had left Corsica earlier on Thursday and was heading toward the search zone north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria, where it would begin operations within days. A week after the Airbus A320 crashed with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptians and 15 from France, investigators have no clear picture of its final moments. But Egyptian investigators said a radio signal had been received from an emergency distre..

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