CIA torture detainee calls for Guantánamo release Fourteen years after being detained and waterboarded, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, has appeared on camera for the first time at a quasi-parole hearing. The 45-year-old Zubaydah, who has never been charged with a crime, is one of three men that the CIA admits it waterboarded at an unknown prison in Thailand. At the hearing, his dark hair was neat, his moustache and beard impeccably trimmed. Joe Margulies, one of his lawyers, described the review board appearance as "a formality, a ritual". He said: "Abu Zubaydah will not be released." Zubaydah makes case for release Trump renews appeal to minority voters As Republican nominee Donald Trump renews his appeal to minority voters and attacks rival Hillary Clinton over an Associated Press analysis of the Clinton Foundation's fundraising while she served as secretary of state, a new biography draws a picture of the candidate's shifting loyalties and political flip-flopping as a matter of expediency. "I think it had to do more with practicality, because if you're going to run for office, you would have had to make friends," he told the authors of Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power. A tale of many Trumps: showman, womanizer and slick operator Turkey launches assault on Isis in Syria Turkey said it had hit 63 targets in northern Syria with F-16 warplanes as part of an operation that includes special ground forces to "cleanse" jihadis from Jarablus – the group's last major hub on the 500-mile Syria-Turkey border. Turkish tanks have also been amassing near the Syrian border. Turkish officials said the operations are an act of self-defense provoked, in part, by the bombing of a wedding in Gaziantep over the weekend that killed more than 50 people. Turkish troops enter Syria in major operation against Isis Sunbathing woman ticketed over burkini in France Pictures have emerged of four French police ticketing a woman for failing to "wear an outfit respecting good morals and secularism" on the shore of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the burkini, citing concerns about clothing that "overtly manifests adherence to a religion" in the wake of recent terrorist killings in the country. Sunbathing topless remains permissible. Aheda Zanetti, inventor of the burkini, said she created it to give women freedom, not to take it away, adding that it symbolizes leisure, happiness, fitness and health. Police make woman remove clothing on Nice beach following burkini ban Canadian woman faces trial over helping pigs Anita Krajnc, 49, was arrested last year after she provided water to pigs en route to the slaughter. Now she faces trial after clashing with the driver of a tractor-trailer carrying the animals. Ontario hog farmer Eric Van Boekel, who owned the pigs, filed a police complaint the next day. James Silver, Krajnc's lawyer, said: "Environmentally, that what she's doing involves taking the moral high ground. Nutritionally, it's the moral high ground. Cognitively, it's the moral high ground." Canada woman faces 10 years in prison for giving pigs water on hot day Getting it on in college? The fast and not so fast Sex on university campuses isn't what you think, writes Lisa Wade, where even though students can opt out of hooking up, they can't opt out of hookup culture. "They were just two weeks into their first year of college when suddenly Declan leaned over, grabbed the waist of Cassidy's jeans, and pulled her crotch toward his face, proclaiming: "Dinner's right here!"' But to almost everyone's surprise, students aren't having as much sex as we thought – less than their parents – and they're more likely to be "sexually inactive". 'Sex on campus isn't what you think' US National parks: 10 least visited gems Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks are often overcrowded – sometimes to the detriment and safety of animals and humans alike. As part of our celebration of national parks, we review the 10 least visited where you're more likely to see a bear, moose or "champion tree" than another human. Top of the list: Katmai, in southern Alaska, home to the world's largest population of Alaskan brown bears. Also, the National Park of American Samoa. Nearly 5,000 miles from the California coast, three of the islands – Tutuila, Ofy and Ta'u – were only declared a national park in 1988. Only around 10,000 visitors make their way here each year. 10 of the least visited US national parks Disco of the divine Disco forged its reputation for sex, drugs and unbridled hedonism. But it wasn't that way everywhere. In some areas, disco took on a God-fearing, praise-to-the-Lord perspective. A new compilation, compiled by DJ and crate-digger Greg Belson, gathers together an obscure clutch of records made between 1974 and 1984 by gospel artists who wanted to spread the word beyond their usual audience. "When you hear a quality gospel vocal really going at it and delivering it from the heart and the soul, it really does transcend," says Belson. "It's just explosive, really." Divine disco: the beatific sub-genre that delivered dancefloor sermons In case you missed it … Jennifer Lawrence earned more than Hollywood rivals Melissa McCarthy, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Aniston and Chinese star Fan Bingbing with earnings of $46m last year. The analysis, conducted by Box Office Mojo, calculates that this is the second year in a row Lawrence has been named the film industry's best paid female star. But that's still just half what her closest male actor made. Jennifer Lawrence tops Forbes list of highest paid female actors | 
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