Soviet MiG designer Mikoyan dies at 89

Moscow: Vano Mikoyan, one of the developers of the MiG fighter jets for the Soviet and then Russian air force, has died at the age of 89, aircraft maker MiG said on Friday. Mikoyan is best-known for engineering the MiG-29 jet fighter, a warplane that entered service in the 1980s as the Soviet counterpart to the US F-15 and F-16 fighters. AFP

Canada to allow expats to vote 

Ottawa: Canada's Liberal government has introduced a Bill to increase voter eligibility, including rolling back a measure that excluded more than one million expatriates from voting in 2015. The measures do not, however, go as far as the Liberals pledged during the last campaign to revamp the way Canadians vote, by dropping the current first-past-the-post system in favour of a more representational model. afp