BlackBerry leaves Pakistan following government backdoor demands

BlackBerry is pulling out of Pakistan entirely next year, saying it won't sell devices or services there because the government has demanded access to BlackBerry Enterprise Service emails and BBM chats. Pakistan issued a shutdown order on BlackBerry services in July of this year, telling the country’s mobile phone operators the company would no longer be allowed to operate in the country after Nov. 30 due to "security reasons."
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The Man Who Watched Drake Steal His Artwork for the Instagram Likes

“There's no hard feelings, I just want credit.” By Luke O’Neil.
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Turkish group says Russians targeted bakery in Syria

IHH says bakery destroyed in attack in Idlib provided daily bread for nearly 45,000 internally displaced people.
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The Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning Effect: When Experts Claim to Know the Unknowable

The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge. By Simon Oxenham.
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Supreme Court justice blocks Native Hawaiian vote count

A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday issued a temporary stay blocking the counting of votes in an election that would be a significant step toward Native Hawaiian self-governance... By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher.
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Mother of two is ID'd as one of three people killed in Planned Parenthood shootings

Jennifer Markovsky was one of the three people killed in a shooting spree at a Planned Parenthood clinic here Friday, her father told The Denver Post on Sunday. John Ah-King said his daughter, a 35-year-old married mother of two, was accompanying a friend to the clinic when she was killed.
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Paris attacks: Obama pays respects at Bataclan theatre

US President Barack Obama has visited the scene of the Bataclan theatre attack in Paris, after arriving in the city for the UN climate change summit. Accompanied by French President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, he laid a single white rose at the venue where 90 people were killed. Security was stepped up for the visit, with helicopters flying overhead and roads in the area sealed off.
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