Voting Underway in Alabama Senate Race

The vote is being dominated by allegations of sexual misconduct by Republican candidate Roy Moore. The seventy year old former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, has denied accusations he sexually harassed teenagers in the nineteen-seventies. Also, at a summit in Paris, the French President says the global temperature rise has become a permanent emergency, and the first reviews of the latest Star Wars instalment, The Last Jedi.

(Photo: Republican candidate Roy Moore departs on horseback after he cast his ballot in Gallant, Alabama. Credit: Reuters)