Donald Trump pummelled by Republican rivals in 2016 debate

Donald Trump has come under attack from all sides in a fiery debate between the top Republican presidential candidates in the 2016 election.
The party's frontrunner, a billionaire businessman with no political experience, refused to apologise over comments about the wife of Jeb Bush.
And he was on the receiving end when Carly Fiorina drew huge applause facing up to his recent jibe over her looks.
Fifteen Republicans are vying to be the party's White House nominee in 2016.
With more than a year until polling day, the second Republican debate in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California saw Mr Bush and Mr Trump trading blows several times.

Flaws found in Ashley Madison password protection

More than 11 million passwords stolen from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website have been decoded, says a password cracking group.
When stolen data from the site was first dumped, the encrypted passwords were said to be almost uncrackable because of the way they were scrambled.
But programming changes by the site's developers meant more than a third of the passwords were poorly protected.
The cracking group said it would not be sharing the decoded passwords.

Uber dealt another blow over driver status

App-based taxi service Uber has been dealt another blow in a legal row that questions the status of its drivers and threatens its business model.
It has emerged that a government body has already ruled that Uber drivers are employees not independent contractors.
The distinction is crucial because employees are entitled to a raft of benefits.
It could strengthen the case for Uber drivers currently taking legal action against the company.
The ruling emerged in court documents published by a lawyer representing the drivers - all based in San Francisco.
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) determined that a former Uber driver in southern California was an employee, not an independent contractor as the company had claimed.
Uber appealed against the decision, but both appeals were rejected - by an administrative law judge and then by the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.
The EDD decision is the third such ruling on the status of Uber - which has quickly become a huge issue for the company.
Back in May, a Florida regulatory agency also agreed that drivers were employees, as did the California Labour Commissioner in June.
The current legal row was sparked when a federal judge in San Francisco ruled last week that drivers were entitled to sue Uber as a group.
No precedent
The company argues that drivers want independent contractor status because they want to be "their own boss".
An Uber spokesman denied that the EDD decision had "any wider impact or set any formal or binding precedent".
Some states have issued rulings that classify Uber drivers as independent contractors:
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Indiana
Texas
New York
Illinois
California also made such a ruling in 2012, but it applied to only one specific case.
City strikes
It has never been a smooth ride for Uber to establish itself as the on-demand alternative to traditional taxis.
It has faced anger from cab unions around the world, and cities have regularly been blocked by taxi drivers protesting about the way Uber operates.
The latest protest, in South America's largest city Sao Paulo, has led the council to vote 43 to three to ban Uber from operating there.
Meanwhile, at a rally against Uber in Melbourne, taxi unions promised strikes across the country next week.
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