Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is 'bigger and more powerful'

*Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is 'bigger and more powerful'*

US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's. Mr Trump's tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear launch button was "always on my table".

Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump's unorthodox words sent social media into a frenzy. It ended a quick-fire day of tweeting by Mr Trump in which he took credit for a lack of plane crashes, announced awards for "corrupt media" and threatened to pull aid from Palestinians for failing to show "appreciation or respect".

Android Go could bring Oreo to smartphones as cheap as $30 in India starting this month*

*Android Go 📱 could bring Oreo to smartphones as cheap as $30 😱 in India starting this month*

Android Go is designed to make it possible for smartphone makers to produce ultra-cheap devices that can still run Google's latest OS.

Now, though, a report is claiming that Google is working with OEMs in India to get Android Go devices launched, including one that costs just $30...

Citing multiple anonymous sources, Factor Daily reports that Google is currently working with several OEMs in India to produce smartphones with Android Go based on Oreo.

However, taking a device down to just $30 would be impressive, as the average cost of a 4G phone in the country is generally about $100.

Dates for those phones to launch are still unclear, but Micromax's device is apparently launching "on Republic Day or around it," meaning it will probably arrive toward the end of the month.

*Ethiopia to release all political prisoners, says prime minister*

*Ethiopia to release all political prisoners, says prime minister*

Ethiopia's prime minister has announced the release of all political prisoners and the closure of a notorious detention centre which allegedly used torture to extract confessions. Hailemariam Desalegn told a press conference charges would also be dropped for those still awaiting trial. The move was designed to allow political dialogue, he said.

Ethiopia is accused by human rights groups of using mass arrests and detention to stifle opposition. However, this is the first time the government has admitted to having any political prisoners, previously describing them as "criminals", BBC Ethiopia correspondent Emmanuel Igunza says.

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the government of using anti-terrorism laws to jail its critics. The exact number of people in detention is not known. However, thousands have been detained since 2015, when there were widespread protests calling for political and economic reforms, prompting a crackdown.

*Logan Paul: YouTuber apologises over Japan dead man video

*Logan Paul: YouTuber 💻 apologises over Japan dead man video 📹*

An American YouTube star says he does not expect to be forgiven after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.

The video showed Logan Paul and friends discovering the body in the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides.

It prompted a barrage of criticism online with some comments calling it "disrespectful" and "disgusting".

Logan Paul later apologised and said he was "misguided by shock and awe".

"I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don't expect to be forgiven," he said in a video apology posted to Twitter.

"I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through. There's a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn't", he said.

"I'm ashamed of myself," he added. "I'm disappointed in myself."

The video was uploaded on Sunday and had millions of views on YouTube before it was taken down.

*Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO*

*Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO*

Gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation. Its 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition "gaming disorder". The draft document describes it as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour so severe that it takes "precedence over other life interests".

Some countries had already identified it as a major public health issue. Many, including the UK, have private addiction clinics to "treat" the condition. The last version of the ICD was completed in 1992, with the new guide due to be published in 2018.

The guide contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms and is used by doctors and researchers to track and diagnose disease. It will suggest that abnormal gaming behaviour should be in evidence over a period of at least 12 months "for a diagnosis to be assigned" but added that period might be shortened "if symptoms are severe".

*It's So Cold in Canada a Zoo Had to Bring Its Penguins Inside*

*It's So Cold in Canada a Zoo Had to Bring Its Penguins Inside*

Thanks to the recent deep freeze in North America, Calgary Zoo had to take extreme measures to protect its animals from the weather - including even the most naturally cold resistant, the zoo's king penguins.

This was in keeping with the zoo's guidelines to bring the penguins indoors when the temperature reaches -25 degrees Celsius (-13 degrees Fahrenheit), zoo curator Malu Celli told the Globe and Mail. Temperatures were averaging at -28 degrees Celsius (-18.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in Calgary over the new year period.

"We just don't want to expose them to too much," Celli said. "To keep them safe, we decided to pick a limit to let them out." King penguins are subantarctic birds, living not on the icy continent of Antarctica like their larger cousins, emperor penguins, but on the islands in more temperate waters a little farther north, preferring land free of snow and ice. Although the penguins are built to withstand cold temperatures, it doesn't tend to dip down quite that far in the islands they inhabit in the wild.