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BBC OS: Four People Held Over Live-Streamed Attack

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Four People Held Over Live-Streamed Attack

05/01/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Four People Held Over Live-Streamed Attack

Police are investigating an assault of a man, which was live-streamed over Facebook

Police are investigating an assault of a man, which was live-streamed over Facebook.

Controversial hashtag #BLMKidnapping was trending worldwide after a video emerged of an assault of a young, white man in the US city of Chicago.

Also, the 19-year-old who bought his local newspaper to save it in Arkansas, US. A new study suggests that people who live near major roads have higher rates of dementia. And, fresh doubt over global warming "pause".

(Photo: Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson from Chicago Police)

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