Trump to Ditch Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal

Donald Trump has outlined his immediate priorities for his first one-hundred days as United States president. He's said one of his first acts will be to tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with eleven Pacific Rim countries, which Mr Trump says he would drop in favour of bilateral agreements.

The Turkish government is withdrawing a controversial bill that would have allowed men who'd had sex with underage girls to have their convictions quashed in some circumstances if they married the girl concerned. The parliament in Ankara had been due to vote on the bill today.

In July, the BBC's Ed Butler made a documentary about a cultural practice that happens in some areas of rural Malawi: it centred around a man, Eric Aniva, who said he was paid to have sex with girls as young as 12, to prepare them for womanhood. He was today sentenced to a 5 year prison sentence.