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  • Alabama mall Thanksgiving shooting suspect arrested

    Photo of Emantic Bradford Jr in a tuxedo at his father's home Symbol copyright Emantic Bradford/Facebook Symbol caption Emantic Bradford Jr was once shot and killed by way of an officer all through a mall capturing at Thanksgiving that left two folks wounded

    a man suspected of a shooting assault at an Alabama mall is in custody after police admitted killing the inaccurate guy.

    Erron Brown, 20, handed himself in on Thursday to government in Georgia.

    Police in the beginning believed they had shot and killed the gunman on the scene of the assault at the Riverchase Galleria mall on Thanksgiving.

    However, they later admitted wrongly killing Emantic Bradford Jr, 21, at the mall in Hoover, Alabama.

    Mr Bradford, who had a permit to carry a weapon, had “heightened the sense of danger” at the scene via drawing his gun, police mentioned.

    Image copyright CBS Symbol caption Demonstrators have demanded justice for Emantic Bradford Jr

    As folks fled, witnesses stated many people had their own guns out, in line with NPR.

    When police arrived on scene, a uniformed officer noticed Mr Bradford with a firearm and shot him useless, believing him to be the gunman.

    Police initially praised that officer as a “hero”. However they later admitted their initial report was once “no longer utterly accurate”.

    Mr Bradford’s family mentioned witnesses as saying that he were looking to help through waving other folks to safety.

    The unnamed officer who killed Mr Bradford throughout the capturing has reportedly been placed on administrative depart.

  • Cancers ‘rising around the world’

    A woman is treated with chemotherapy Image copyright Science Photo Library

    There will be 18.1 million new cases of cancer and 9.6 million people will die with the disease this year worldwide, a report predicts.

    The rise, from 14.1 million cases and 8.2 million deaths in 2012, is partly due to a growing and ageing population.

    The figures suggest one in five men and one in six women will develop the disease in their lifetime.

    And as countries become wealthier, more people get cancers related to lifestyle rather than those linked to poverty.

    The International Agency for Research on Cancer provides regular snapshots of the scale of cancer around the world, looking closely at 36 different cancers in 185 countries.

    Researchers say while ways of measuring and collecting cancer data have improved over the years, the overall trend is that cancer rates and deaths have risen year on year.

    The latest report suggests lung cancer, female breast cancer, and bowel cancer are responsible for a third of all cancer cases and deaths worldwide.

    ‘Tobacco control’

    And the authors say lung cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in women in 28 countries.

    The worst hit countries include the USA, Hungary, Denmark, China and New Zealand.

    George Butterworth, from the charity Cancer Research UK, said: “Tobacco is the single biggest reason why more women across the world are getting lung cancer than ever before.

    “In the UK smoking among women became more prolific later than it did for men, so it’s not surprising that we’re seeing increasing lung cancer rates now.

    “Similarly, cigarettes are now increasingly popular among women in low and middle income countries and the tobacco industry’s aggressive marketing to them is influencing this.”

    Meanwhile, Dr Freddie Bray, of the IARC, said: “The results highlight the need to continue to put in place targeted and effective tobacco control policies in every country in the he world.”

    ‘Extraordinary diversity’

    Overall, the report estimates, nearly half of all cases and most cancer deaths in the world this year will occur in Asia, partly because of the large numbers of people living in the continent and partly because some cancers with higher death rates are more common in this region.

    This includes, for example, high rates of liver cancer, which generally has a poor prognosis, in China.

    Beyond this, the authors say, there is “extraordinary diversity” in the types of cancer and patterns of illness around the world.

    They say because of this countries need to consider tailoring how they try to prevent and treat cancer.