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Michelle Payne is the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, riding the Prince of Penzance - a horse considered a long shot before the race.  "It's like a dream come true, this horse is awesome," Ms. Payne was quoted as saying after making history.  England's Max Dynamite was second, and Australia's Criterion finished in third place.

The US is planning to send another Navy ship through the South China Sea, near China's artificial islands that Beijing are using to try and extend territorial claims on the important shipping lanes.  An unnamed US official told Reuters news agency that patrols would take place at least "twice a quarter".  China issued angry warnings after the US Navy destroyer USS Lassen passed within twelve nautical miles of the new islands.

A United Nations group says Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim should be released from prison immediately.  Anwar's sodomy conviction was politically-motivated, according to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (.pdf link), and his political rights should be reinstated.  Investigators say the government of Prime Minister Najib Razak has thus far failed to comply with any request to supply more information on the case.  

Police in Bucharest, Romania arrested the three owners of a nightclub where 31 people were killed by a fire.  It happened when a heavy metal band set off fireworks as part of its performance on Friday night, setting the club alight and sending people stampeding for the exit.  The men are accused of overselling the club and failing to have clear fire exits.

US regulators are investigating whether the Volkswagen emissions scandal extends to the company's premier brand, Porsche.  VW has already admitted that control software that tricks emissions tests into giving good scores was installed in Volkswagen, Skoda, and smaller Audi cars with four cylinder engines.  Now, the US Environmental Protection Agency suspects the lying software was uploaded into more expensive vehicles powered with a diesel V6, such as certain Porsche Cayenne models.  Volkswagen is denying the latest claims.

Boko Haram may be down, but the Nigerian terrorist group is releasing photos and videos to prove that it is still a threat.  One shows Islamic fundamentalists severing the right hands of two men accused of stealing money, the medieval punishment for such a crime.  Another shows the group manufacturing rockets, apparently using kit from the machine shop at a college in Bama town near the Cameroon border.  Nigerian troops have recently pushed the terrorists out of there - but apparently not before Boko Haram could learn a new skill, one it might have picked up from its allies in Islamic State.

Norway is starting an advertising campaign to tell asylum seekers not to come to the country.  The country's immigration department will buy ad space in Russian newspapers to warn Afghans who are planning to cross Norway's border with Russia that they risk being forcibly repatriated to their home country.  The officials say their Nordic neighbor Denmark has had success with a similar campaign it ran in Lebanese newspapers - few Syrian refugees have applied for asylum in Denmark.

A big fireball lit up the night sky in Bangkok last night.  Probably aliens.  Or a meteor.