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Meek Mill faces jail after latest parole violation Nicki Minaj appears in court to tell the judge she’s been working on making her boyfriend more responsible A judge appears likely to send rapper Meek Mill back behind bars early next year for a steady stream of probation violations, most involving his failure to keep the court aware of his erratic travels. Mill offered emotional testimony on Thursday about his rudderless childhood in gritty North Philadelphia, while his girlfriend Nicki Minaj and various managers pledged to keep him on track. But Judge Genece Brinkley, who had spared him state prison in a 2009 drug and gun case, had heard it all before. “How many times am I supposed to give him a second chance?” she asked, concluding that probation may no longer be “appropriate.” She ordered him not to work or perform before sentencing on 5 February. A jail term would presumably stall his career following a year in which the Roc Nation-signed talent has performed with Minaj, Jay-

2015, the year in music: Adele, Drake and Kendrick Lamar Continued poor album sales meant success this year was measured in downloads, free mixtapes and off-the-cuff singles Drake: a parable for what success looks like 2015 will mostly be remembered as the year that Adele made an easy-listening album that sold nearly 1.6m copies in the UK in three weeks. In fact, the history books may record that the whole of the year was ruled by the beige brigade: Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, James Bay, all huge. Aside from those album successes, though, record sales were a misery. Even Faithless managed to get a No 1 album because they only had to shift 12,000 copies. But those statistics tell us very little about music in 2015. There were a series of encouraging shifts, in which the old metrics of success continued to be even more redundant. Let’s start with the man who made the year his good girl: Drake. In February, he dropped a free mixtape, which he quickly retracted and sold as an album. Then he

Japan to spend record $41bn defense budget on spying on China & US base relocation    Japan's defense budget for the next fiscal year will hit an all-time record of 5,05 trillion yen (over US$41 billion). Tokyo plans to purchase US-made aircraft to step up its monitoring activities near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The increase in Japan's fiscal 2016 spending appears to be mainly due to equipment purchases intended to counter China’s maritime activities related to territorial claims. Since the start of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's second administration in 2012, it will be the fourth consecutive annual increase in Japanese defense spending. To strengthen monitoring activities in the East China Sea, Tokyo plans to purchase Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft and four Osprey tilt-rotor transportation aircraft, Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun reported. The increased budget for the next 12 months (star

Syria conflict: Russia air strikes 'killed 200 civilians'  At least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria, an Amnesty International report says, quoting witnesses and activists. It says it "researched remotely" more than 25 Russian attacks in five areas between 30 September and 29 November. The findings indicate "serious failures [by Russia] to respect international humanitarian law", Amnesty says. Moscow has repeatedly denied causing civilian deaths, describing such claims as part of "information warfare". Russia began air strikes targeting Islamic State militants (IS) and other groups on 30 September, saying it was acting at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Moscow has also been accused of bombing rebel groups opposed to Mr Assad but backed by the West. 'No military targets'

Iraq forces liberate more districts in Ramadi ssTv User The Iraqi military and volunteer fighters have liberated more neighborhoods from the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the city of Ramadi, Anbar Province. Iraq’s Summeriya news channel said on Tuesday that the forces carried out successive rounds of shelling against the positions of Daesh in the central district of al-Zobbat. The report said Zabat is currently under full control of the Iraqi forces and a mop-up operation has been launched to chase the militants hiding in residential buildings. Iraqi forces also advanced in southern Ramadi, retaking the district of al-Bakr. The Iraq

  Migrant crisis: Mediterranean rescue as influx tops million     Italian officials have reported the rescue of 555 migrants from the Mediterranean while 11 others died trying to reach Greece from Turkey. The news came as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the number of migrants and refugees crossing illegally into Europe by sea and land had passed one million. The figure for 2015 represents a fourfold rise on the total last year. Before the latest deaths, the number of dead or missing was put at 3,695. Most of the migrants crossed by sea, with more than 800,000 travelling from Turkey to Greece. Half are migrants from Syria. The influx of migrants has caused significant political rifts within the EU, with some states inside the border-free Schengen area putting up fences and re-imposing frontier controls. Hungary and Slovakia are taking legal action at the European Court of Justice to challenge EU plans to share asylum seekers across EU states.