Clinton campaign seizes on report of Trump 'Cuba violation' The Clinton campaign on Thursday attacked Donald Trump over reports of a violation of the Cuba embargo, hours after Newsweek alleged that the Republican nominee spent at least $68,000 in the island dictatorship in 1998 while investigating potential business opportunities, which US law made illegal. Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser to the Clinton campaign, said "Trump will always put his own business interest ahead of the national interest – and has no trouble lying about it." Meanwhile, we meet Gringos for Trump in Mexico; the candidate reverses his opinion of Angela Merkel, calling the German chancellor "a really great world leader"; and he continued his grudge match with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado in an overnight series of tweets. Trump violated Cuba embargo in 1998 business venture, report claims Rosetta probe to collide with comet 67P When the Rosetta spacecraft touches down on the surface of its chosen chunk of dust, ice and rock today, it will mark the end of the mission that has dispelled the mystery and superstition about comets. The craft arrived at 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in August 2014 and launched its tiny robotic probe Philae onto the comet, which then became lodged in a ravine. With the duck-shaped comet now heading out towards Jupiter, European mission commanders have placed Rosetta on a "soft" collision course with the comet to achieve what they describe as "emotional closure". Rosetta probe set to collide with comet 67P as 12-year mission comes to an end World Bank to name countries that fail children's growth The president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has warned he will name and shame countries that fail to tackle the malnourishment and poor growth of their children, as part of a mission to rid the world of stunting. The problem is huge: in India 38.7% of children are stunted, in Pakistan 45% and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 70%. "Inequality is baked into the brains of 25% of all children before the age of five," says Kim told the Guardian. "So the only way that we can realistically say there is equality of opportunity is if we bring stunting down to zero." World Bank to name and shame countries that fail their stunted children US to boost military capability in Asia The US has promised to "sharpen its military edge" in Asia Pacific in order to remain the dominant power in a region, defense secretary Ash Carter has announced. The Pentagon chief described what he called the next phase of a US pivot to Asia, itself a response to China's rising military might, as a rebalancing of American security commitments after years of heavy focus on the Middle East. Carter's remarks came three days after he made remarks at a nuclear missile base in North Dakota about rebuilding the nuclear force, including undersea drones. US will 'sharpen military edge' in Asia Pacific, says Pentagon chief Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte likens himself to Hitler The Philippines president appears to have compared himself to Hitler, saying he would be "happy to slaughter" millions of drug addicts in his bloody war on crime. During a press conference in his home city of Davao, the former prosecutor told reporters, "If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have ...." he said, pausing and pointing to himself. "Hitler massacred three million Jews ... there's three million drug addicts. There are. I'd be happy to slaughter them." Rodrigo Duterte vows to kill three million drug addicts and likens himself to Hitler Imprisoned in Guantánamo; stranded in Kazakhstan Tunisian Lutfi Bin Ali was held in Guantánamo for 13 years. Now he lives, at 52, in Semey, a former nuclear testing site on the Kazakh steppe. On bad days, Lutfi Bin Ali retrieves his Guantánamo Bay suit from under a pile of clothes and pulls it on. The outfit, which by this point has faded from its infamous orange colour to more of a salmony pink, reminds him he was once worse off than he is now. "At least in Guántanamo there were people to talk to. Here I have nobody," Bin Ali tells the Guardian's Shaun Walker. Worse than Guantánamo? Ex-prisoner struggles with new life in Kazakhstan Deutsche Bank hit by new selloff When does a problem turn into a crisis? For Deutsche Bank, that moment may have come last night, when Bloomberg reported that 10 hedge funds had cut their exposure to the German lender. These funds, who use Deutsche Bank to clear various trades, have chosen to move some excess cash elsewhere, in light of recent speculation over Germany's largest lender's financial health. Deutsche Bank's US-listed securities tumbled by 6.6% in New York, as the Dow Jones industrial average shed 1%, or 197 points. The sell-off continues. Deutsche Bank's share price approaches 30-year low Italian police find stolen Van Goghs in Naples Two Vincent van Gogh paintings that were stolen from a museum in Amsterdam more than a decade ago have been recovered by Italian authorities in Naples following a sting operation that targeted organised crime. The paintings, identified as View of the Sea at Scheveningen, painted, and the Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, were stolen from the Van Gogh museum in 2002. They were discovered after allegedly being hidden away in one of the houses of an international drug trafficker based in Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. Italian police find Van Goghs stolen in Amsterdam gallery heist In case you missed it ... There's a great debate raging here about how the American media should cover Donald Trump. But what's happening to the media themselves is part of the problem. Monday's television duel between the two candidates is the exception that proves the rule: a brief moment of shared experience in the public square. The rest of the time, American voters are off in their own echo chambers, hearing views that reinforce their own. An "information cocoon" and "filter bubble" is now a defining feature of the entire media landscape. Do you live in a Trump bubble, or a Clinton bubble? | 
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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Bedford, New Hampshire on 29 September. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images 
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