Shoma Uno leads Ilia Malinin after the world figure skating championships men's short program. Japan won the pairs' title for the first time.
A controversial gold mine in Thailand restarted operations on Thursday, more than six years after the government forced it to close over health and environmental concerns.The Thai government, at that point a military junta, ordered the open-cut mine to halt operations in May 2016 in a rare win for environmental campaigners.
At the world figure skating championships, Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won Japan's first pairs' title, dethroning Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier.