Pantheon burial honours French rights icon:

Frances President Emmanuel Macron holds a moment of silence as he pays his respects by the coffin of former French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil during the burial ceremony at the Pantheon in Paris on Sunday. The Pantheon in the heart of Paris houses the remains of many great French figures, including Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola. AFP

Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg shot dead at 21      

Toronto: Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg has been shot dead here in an incident which left another man and a woman injured. Smoke was 21. “Multiple shots” were fired in the Entertainment District of the city on Saturday evening, the police said, reports independent.co.uk. One of the two male victims succumbed to his injuries, the Toronto Police Operations Centre said on Twitter. Smoke Dawg’s death comes just weeks after XXXTentacion, a US rapper, was shot dead in Florida. Smoke Dawg of Trinidadian, Jamaican and Somalian heritage, was part of an up and coming group of rappers called Halal Gang. IANS

Australia shelves MH370 memorial after protest      

Perth: Plans to erect a memorial honouring the passengers and crew of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were shelved by Australia on Sunday after protests by relatives of the victims. The final resting place of the Boeing 777, which had 239 people on board when it disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014, is still unknown despite two massive underwater searches off Australia’s west coast. The Western Australia state and federal governments in 2014 flagged plans to build a monument in Perth, but relatives said they did not want it created until the jet was found. AFP

Juhi flags Kathmandu dust on Twitter

Kathmandu: Bollywood actor Juhi Chawla, who was here with her family recently, brought the city’s growing pollution problem to the fore. The 50-year-old actor took to Twitter to raise concerns about the environment in the Nepali capital. “While waiting for our cars, in Kathmandu... So much dust, so much traffic, so much diesel and petrol fume in the air, that we had to cover our faces, everyday here locals walk around with surgical masks,” Chawla wrote alongside a photograph covering nose by herself and her family members. PTI