News Headlines - 23 September 2019

▽Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks - BBC News

The data, compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), says the five-year period from 2014 to 2019 is the warmest on record.
Sea-level rise has accelerated significantly over the same period, as CO2 emissions have hit new highs.
The WMO says carbon-cutting efforts have to be intensified immediately.

▽Make climate fight 'sexy,' says Japan's new environment minister - Reuters

Japan’s new environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, pledged on Sunday to mobilize young people to push his coal-dependent country toward a low-carbon future by making the fight against climate change “sexy” and “fun.”... He was speaking alongside Christiana Figueres, an architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb global warming, who had invited him to meet various companies and banks aiming to accelerate investment in clean energy projects in Asia.

▽S. Korean prosecutors search Cho's home | NHK WORLD

South Korean prosecutors have raided the home of Justice Minister Cho Kuk following a series of corruption allegations.
The prosecutors started their search of Cho's residence in Seoul on Monday morning... It is extremely rare for South Korean prosecutors to search the home of a sitting justice minister.

▽Feminist protest in Madrid draws attention to domestic violence | Euronews

Thousands of protesters demonstrated against domestic violence in central Madrid on Friday. After a series of high-profile rape cases and 19 instances of women killed by their partner or ex-partners this summer, activists declared a "feminist emergency"... The government frequently publishes the number of women killed by partners or ex-partners. The number so far this year is 42 while 32 children have been orphaned as a result of domestic violence. Over 1,000 women have been killed since records started in 2003.

▽Old lady discovers Renaissance masterpiece in her kitchen

An early Renaissance masterpiece by the Florentine master Cimabue has been discovered in an old lady's kitchen in a town near Paris, art experts said Monday.
"Christ Mocked", by the 13th-century artist who taught Giotto, is estimated to be worth between four and six million euros ($4.3 million $6.6 million), according to the Old Masters specialists Turquin.
They said the work was owned by an old lady in the northern French town of Compiegne, who had it hanging between her kitchen and her sitting room.