Libertarian Gary Johnson in new slip-up Asked during a televised town hall meeting to name a foreign leader he admires, the Libertarian presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, struggled to come up with a single one. MSNBC's Chris Matthews pressed Johnson. "You gotta do this. Anywhere. Any continent. Canada, Mexico, Europe over there, Asia, South America, Africa – name a foreign leader that you respect." "I guess I'm having an Aleppo moment," Johnson said, referring to an earlier gaffe, then quickly said "the former president of Mexico". US presidential candidate Gary Johnson fails to name a foreign leader he admires Man in San Diego police death holding e-cigarette A black man who was fatally shot by police officers in a San Diego suburb was pointing a 4in-long electronic smoking device when he was killed, the police said late on Wednesday. El Cajon police said that they recovered the vaping device that 38-year-old Alfred Olango was holding on Tuesday when police fatally shot him, one minute after arriving at the scene. Police had said that Olango was shot several times after refusing to obey police commands, drawing an object from his pants pocket and pointing it at an officer in a "shooting position". Police say black man killed by officer near San Diego was holding e-cigarette Obama's pick for Cuba ambassador 'never going to happen' Barack Obama has a "0%" chance of getting his nomination for ambassador to Cuba approved by Congress, according to the American Foreign Service Association, the union representing US diplomats. Obama nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis (who is currently the top US diplomat in Havana) this week to become the first American ambassador to Cuba in more than half a century. Havana welcomed the move, but Republican senators including Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas pledged to block any ambassador nomination, citing a lack of progress in democracy and human rights. Ásgeir Sigfússon, spokesman for the AFSA, said that with Rubio on the Senate foreign relations committee, confirmation is "never going to happen". Obama's pick as ambassador to Cuba has '0% chance' of approval, union says Mexican 'narcos' target the priesthood The Catholic priest José Alfredo López Guillén was seized from his parish residence in rural Michoacán. His body was discovered nearly a week later; he had been shot five times in the stomach. López was the third priest to be killed in Mexico in less than a week. His body was found days after Alejo Jiménez and José Juárez were abducted from their church in the city of Poza Rica and found dead in the Gulf state of Veracruz. "By killing the parish priest in a small village, the narcos assert their authority in a brutal way. Not even the traditional, spiritual authority of the priest is respected: narcos alone rule," says historian Pablo Mijangos y González. 'Narcos alone rule': Mexico shaken after three priests killed within a week Oil rises sharply as Opec promises to limit crude Oil prices settled up nearly 6% on Wednesday after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) struck a deal to limit crude output. Its first agreement to cut production since 2008 follows a crash in the market on oversupply and will be finalized at its policy meeting in November. Meanwhile, energy experts try to make sense of Trump's energy proposals, from making coal great again to "canceling" the Paris accord. They find his ideas are largely far-fetched and his talk of climate change as a "hoax", dangerous. Oil prices rise 6% after Opec agrees to limit crude output Lifespan determined by internal clock, study finds Scientists have found the most definitive evidence yet that some people are destined to age more quickly and die younger than others – regardless of their lifestyle. The findings could explain the seemingly random and unfair way that death is sometimes dealt out. "You get people who are vegan, sleep 10 hours a day, have a low-stress job, and still end up dying young," said Steve Horvath, a biostatistician who led the research at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We've shown some people have a faster innate ageing rate." Internal 'clock' makes some people age faster and die younger – regardless of lifestyle The emotional rollercoaster of Major League Baseball MLB experienced both celebratory and tragic goodbyes this week with the retirement of legendary broadcaster Vin Scully and the death of pitcher José Fernández. Fans cried for Scully, writes David Lengel, "because after 67 beautiful seasons, there were no more tomorrows for baseball's familiar voice". Then, 48 hours later, came the news that José Fernández had been killed in an early morning boating accident, and the contrast could not have been more stark. Major League Baseball overcome by emotion during its final week In case you missed it … As a reporter on Alaska's KTVA, Charlo Greene did not plan to curse on live television but on 22 September 2014 she ended a segment by revealing that she was a proponent of legalization, the words came pouring out: "Fuck it, I quit." Greene quickly became a full-time cannabis advocate. Police raided her club, charging her with eight serious criminal offenses of "misconduct involving a controlled substance". Now she face 24 years behind bars. "It's almost dizzying when you try to make sense of it," she says. Reporter who quit on air to fight for cannabis legalization could face prison | 
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Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Wednesday in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photograph: John Locher/AP 